Sequential circuits samplers

<< Anyway, despite assurances that everything was OK with the unit, I 

have encountered a couple of problems. The most burning issue at 

present is the message "Lf" in the LED. >>

I'm going to take a wild guess and suggest that you might be seeing "If" 
rather than "Lf"... is this possible? this would just mean it doesn't want to 
write to the disc because it's not formatted for the p2k. 
it won't read or write IBM discs. 
there is a considerable chunk of the manual in the files section of this list 
if you haven't seen one. 
or you could be seeing "LA" with some of the display missing. I've never seen 
"LF" before on either my 2k or 2k2.

I've just lifted the following from my own archive, though it'll all be 
lurking in the main list archived mail somewhere too, along with other useful bits- 
there's an account by one owner who had to modify a teac drive to work. I 
don't recall anything ever having had to be done to the sampler itself to make a 
drive work, except filling the gap left by the original fat drive :-) I used a 
compact cassette box- it fits perfectly.

  Toshiba FDD4216G0K 
  Sony MP-F53W-00D 
  Canon MD-350 
  Sony 63W 
  TEAC FD-235HF (thanks to nick bittakis) 
  SONY MT-2 1-623-457-14 (new! thanks to david borman) >>

I added these: 
sony mpf520-1 (jumper needs to be in inner position)
epson smd-400 (jumpers across DC, MC and C0; you'll know what that means if 
you ever see one).
I have some doubts as to the availability of these models but you never know 
when/where one will turn up. a citizen drive lifted from my long-dead sx16 
would not work whatever I did with jumpers and switches.

good luck. it's an excellent machine when it's working.

duncan/r.m.i.