Sequential circuits samplers

Route 66 Studios sell's an exact match 2004 replacement drive for this unit and the 2000 at www.Route66studios.com

> Here's some notes on my short saga to replace the drive in my Prophet 
> 2002
> 
> I went to eBAY and searched for any of the drives listed elsewhere in 
> this forum.  The only one I could find in current and past auctions 
> was the TEAC FD-235HF drive. So for $3US and $7 S&H I used buy-it-now 
> to acquire the drive.  Well it turns out that the FD-235HF is 
> a "family" of TEAC drives and there are many models on the market. 
> 
> Next step was to try and get drive documentation.  TEAC's web site 
> has quite a few PDFs available for different flavors, that's the good 
> news, but the bad news is that they didn't have my 4XXX series posted 
> and each drive's settings for Drive Select 0 is different.  I 
> downloaded a few to see if I could extrapolate the answer but most of 
> the PDFs show where DS1 is selected but provide no info on how to 
> strap jumpers for DS0
> 
> so the next step was to write to TEAC tech support, BTW I chose the 
> European TEAC center to send my question to.  They were prompt. I 
> sent the request at 4PM PDT and by the next morning I had a PDF with 
> the precise answer....the 4XXX series has a small jumper block set 
> near the power connector, it is two rows of pins  A1 to E1 and A2 to 
> E2.  If A1 is jumpered B1 that selects DS1, by opening that jumper 
> pair and shifting it over to close A2 with B2, you reconfig the drive 
> to DS0 which is required for the 2002......The other jumper is the 
> floppy density detection setting which ties C2 to D2 and I left that 
> stock which is Auto Detect density....it was that simple, so in went 
> the drive, on went the cables and voila! my 2002 is back in 
> business.  I also did not experience any of the drive light issues 
> mentioned elsewhere
> 
> I will say that if you have a different FD235 series that has A to G 
> pins, do not follow these directions, 
> 
> I also considered the ribbon cable wire swap method where you slice 
> the wire and flip wires 10 and 12 , but I tried several sample runs 
> with old cables and believe me that is hard to do....unless you are a 
> competent cable builder with no drive documentation, I do not 
> recommend that , although it will work if you do the cable right.
> 
> As for removing surface mount resistors and resoldering them? well 
> you need a really fine soldering iron and it's like trying to solder 
> an object the size of dandruff flake.....not for the faint of heart, 
> hey these drives sell from between $3 and $10 each , one guy had a 
> lot of 5 for $10....I say keep looking for a TEAC that has jumpers.
> 
> your other option is to drop about $80 with winecountry for a drop in 
> guaranteed drive. you also eliminate any anxiety about frying some 
> other component trying to rescue your system.....I almost bought the 
> $80 drive 'cause hey I want those folks to be around, but when my $10 
> fix did the trick, I figure that I'll just spend the $70 bucks on 
> samples instead
> 
> BTW I still owe a report on whether my Roland GI-20 guitar MIDI 
> interface improves by thinning out the MIDI messages...will do that 
> report next week.
> 
> Brian 
> PS now that I can load it, that Prophet 5 sample disk for 
> the 2002 
> rocks!