Sequential circuits samplers

Thanks for your encouraging words. ;) I'm sure that the 
reading & writing (and probably the formatting) of the 
floppies is possible; OmniFlop is the existence proof for that.

There is plenty of discussion in the archives, mostly from 
people who leap straight from "I can't think of a way to do 
this" to "this cannot be done." ;)

For the record, the answer to that piece of the puzzle is 
Simon Owen's fdrawcmd.sys - http://simonowen.com/fdrawcmd/ 
This is a floppy drive filter driver equivalent to the one 
that OmniFlop uses.

So, I think I'm on my way to getting the raw data on & off 
the disk; reverse-engineering the disk image format may take 
slightly longer... ;) I have asked Wine Country for any 
information they have, but funnily enough they haven't come 
back with any technical details yet. I admit it was a long 
shot, but hey, there's no harm in asking (I hope).

Stay tuned,

John :^P

ac wrote:
> This has been discussed a few times on this list - check the archives.
> 
> From the little that we know, the news has always been that this is
> not possible. The physical formatting of the disk is not compatible
> with "modern" floppy drives. This could of course be wrong as I've no
> idea where this originally came from.
> 
> Good luck though! This is definately something we'd all find amazingly useful.
> 
> ac
> 
> On 13/03/2008, John Pallister <john@...> wrote:
>> Hello list(s),
>>
>>  I would like to write a program to read & write disks from a
>>  Prophet 2000/2002 sampler. To this end I'm looking for
>>  information about the disk geometry (sector size, sectors
>>  per track etc.) and the structure of the data on the disk.
>>  I've checked the service manual, but it didn't have anything.
>>
>>  If anyone can help me, that'd be great. I would of course
>>  make the program (and its source) freely available.
>>
>>  I apologise for the low analogue content of this message.
>>  And for cross-posting. And for wearing these shoes with
>>  these pants.
>>
>>  Cheers,
>>
>>  John :^P

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John Pallister
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