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Re: [disklavier] External floppy

2014-01-20 by Sam Kanter

Can't ask more from this one:

My 64-bit Win7 machine recognized it instantly, and I was reading 720KB SS Pianosoft, ESEQ and FIL disks in minutes! And, it was 9 bucks on Amazon!

(Why then, is a Yamaha floppy replacement drive $315.11?)


Sam Kanter
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On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 12:16 AM, FC TC <fctc04@...> wrote:

Stay away from TEAC. I had 2 that didn't work and worse yet, corrupted existing floppy data. I got credit w/o having to return anything --- they KNEW!

I finally got my hands on a DYNEX DX-EF101 and it works fine.



On Saturday, January 18, 2014 10:33 PM, Skanter123 <skanter123@...> wrote:
I bought this one:


...Because it stated that it would read both 720KB and 1.4 MB discs. I think I read a review saying that the TEAC would not read 720kb discs. Ill report back when it arrives, probably tomorrow.

Sam

On Jan 18, 2014, at 12:38 PM, Ronald Natalie <ron@ronnatalie.com> wrote:

I bought one of these:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000M3GODW/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Though I've not used it yet.

My understanding is that the only thing "non-standard" on the disks is that they didn't write a sector 0. You can't directly mount it with the standard PC software, but if you can access the raw disk, you will find a dos FAT filesystem there. There is DOS (real DOS unfortunately, not stuff that can run on Windows) to access this. I figure when I get a few days I'll write MAC software to use the thing.




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