Hi,
Provided your S1000 has a SCSI interface why not get a external SCSI drive (Zip, Jaz, MO, ….) and some media instead of using floppies?
We all know that these “advanced” removable storage media also has their reliability issues, but the reliability of a Zip, Jaz, MO… is a few orders of magnitude higher than floppies.
If you want to stick with floppies, I remember (2 decades ago…) the better the brand of the floppies, the higher the price, the lower the probability to have bad experiences.
I doubt such MacOSX floppy disk scanner exist, simply because the day MacOSX was invented, the floppy was long banned from the Macintosh computer already – The G3 and G4 powermacs were (optionally?) fitted with ZIP drives, no floppies (by that time Apple already knew how troublesome floppies were….)
So I would go indeed to go a search for a vintage laptop for that purpose.
Most Pentium MMX, pentium I, II, III and a few IV laptop models were still fitted with floppy disk drives.
They can go very cheap on auction sites nowadays:As example, a few months ago I bought myself a IBM Thinkpad with docking station with an ISA SCSI controller fitted in the docking for 3,5€….
Good luck!
Cheers,
Van: "racciolo@... [akaiS1000S1100Samplers]"
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Datum: donderdag 4 juni 2015 17:35
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Onderwerp: [akaiS1000S1100Samplers] Floppy disk scanner options
Hello all,
After a number of bad experiences I now scan every floppy disk I use (even for other equipment) on the S1000 as it seems the only one able to pick-up bad sectors. This options has been fine for now but, as I work with a lot of floppies, I'm a bit concerned about putting this extra 'stress' one the drive as I presume it will inevitably shorten its life.
So I'm wondering:
- Does anyone know of a reliable software (ideally for OSX) that would do an in-depth scan by using a modern usb drive? It doesn't have to format the disk to Akai format as long as it's able to scan all sectors.
- I also considered getting an old laptop/desktop. Somewhere I read that the best version of "ScanDisk" for example was the one in Win98; all of the subsequent ones weren't as accurate. Were there better programs out there and if so which platform would they work on?
Any other tips or recommendations welcome!
