[sdiy] K2000 floppy drives..

Matthew Smith matt at smiffytech.com
Tue Apr 3 01:26:11 CEST 2012


Quoth Bob Weigel at 03/04/12 08:44...
> I can't for the life of me find the information I once saw on K2000
> floppy drives.  I've swapped in several here..at first had the cable
> keyed backward and figured that out so the light isn't on all of the
> time... now it starts to format a disk but always says (having tried a
> couple new floppies and a few ones I pulled out of old
> systems..panasonic, teac, samsung and mitsumi) that it can't initialize
> the floppy.  I tried a few floppies that were in good shape.  Wonder if
> anyone else has run into this issue
>

I replaced a floppy drive on my Akai S01 sampler. Twice. And have since 
figured it's the floppy CONTROLLER that's at fault. So that's another 
possibility.

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