Interesting to see that the 1.3 OS is capable of all these features. Perhaps an update of the DPX information on emulatorarchive is necessary now :-)
The fact that OmniFlop recognizes the disk as DPX is good news.
Because there may be a workaround now: instead of using DPXREAD and DPXWRITE which are based on the fdrawcmd floppy driver, you can simply try the OmniFlop tool to read and write your DPX disks :-) You may also try the format function of OmniFlop to format DPX disks.
The E2DPX tool of DPXTOOLS creates full DPX disk images from the sound designer files, so these images can directly be used by OmniFlop - you don't *have* to use dpxwrite; any disk write tool is an option.
By the way: the fact that the DPX shortly displayed E2 indicates that there's probably just a small alignment problem.
So I hope OmniFlop will work better for you.
Note: once DPX will natively supported in EMXP, it will also be based on OmniFlop instead of fdrawcmd (or a choice between them).
Good luck
///E-Synthesist
--- In emulatorII-list@yahoogroups.com, "christian.schwank" <c.schwank@...> wrote:
>
> Hi, thanks for your help!
>
> I opened the cassis of the DPX an the 2 Eproms are
> labeled with OS 1.3. So this must be definitely OS 1.3
>
> Ok, i formated a disk in the DPX and OmniFlop in Read Modus
> shows a list with 3 detected formats.
> - Ensoniq SQ80
> - Oberheim DPX
> - Prophet 2002
> The conclusion from that is on you...
>
> I have also tried a couple of times to load from disk into the
> DPX and one time the LED shortly shows "E2" but
> after that directly to "dE" Disk Error.
> So there must be something he could read.
>
> I can't try the backup process, because I don't have any
> floppy disks for the DPX. I bought the DPX shortly without disks,
> and never successfully loaded and heard any sound from it.
> Sad but true :-(
> I thought:
> "I have the complete OMI Lib, that must be enough and easy to load in"
> :-)
> The data dump feature "dd" can be chosen, aswell as "sP" and "Sd"
> And after pressing Enter the LED from the 3,5 floppy lights up,
> followed by Error, because of no disk.
>
> What are correct disks?
> I have Sony MFD-2DD disks (720kb)
>
> Regards
> Christian
>
>
>
> > Can you do the following test: install the OmniFlop floppy driver and run the OmniFlop program (wizard), put the DPX formatted disk in your PC, start "read" in OmniFlop and make sure that "autodetect" is flagged. OmniFlop will automatically try to find out what kind of disk is in your PC drive.
> > If the result list of OmniFlop does not mention "Oberheim DPX" then this is clearly not the kind of disk which is supported by DPXTools. If however Oberheim is mentioned by OmniFlop we have to investigate further...
> >
> > Note that there can always be an alignment problem between the PC drive and the DPX drive. Sometimes I have to 're-read' a disk in my DPX 5 to 10 times before the DPX finally recognizes the disk.
> >
> > Still it's very strange to me that OS 1.3 allowed to format disks while it didn't support backing up of disks yet. Besides formatting disks, can you actually also write (=backup) disks on your DPX ?
> > If so, there's clearly an error on some websites out there which explain the differences between DPX OS versions.
> >
> > ///E-Synthesist
> >
> >
> > --- In emulatorII-list@yahoogroups.com, "christian.schwank" <c.schwank@> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi, when i turn on the DPX and step down to advanced
> > > functions the LEDs say "Fd"
> > > Isn't that Format disk?
> > > With pressing Enter it starts the format process.
> > > When its finished and i say again FORMAT DISK,the LED
> > > says "bd" which means Blank disk afaik.
> > >
> > > Under advanced functions 3 steps right there comes the
> > > OS Version in the Display and it says "1.3"
> > >
> > > But, yes, I really want to upgrade to higher OS.
> > > But how?
> > > Ich have the OS2.2 Files but can't burn eproms.
> > > Route66 have the OS2.2 for 28$, maybe its better
> > > to get it there.
> > >
> > > My DPX can't read the disks written with your DPXWrite.
> > > Thats my main problem. Whats the reason?
> > > - Wrong OS?
> > > - Wrong Floppy Disks?
> > > - Floppy Drive damaged? (but it can format disks!)
> > >
> > > Christian
> > >
> > > > Now I'm confused.
> > > >
> > > > Your DPX-1 is OS 1.3 but it can format disks ??
> > > >
> > > > As far as I know the disk write features were only introduced on DPX with version 1.5.
> > > > So my first guess would be that your DPX needs a higher OS version. The physical disk structure of the >1.5 DPX native disks is different from the disk structure of the sampler disks supported by the DPX (= Akai, Mirage and Prophet 2000).
> > > >
> > > > ///E-Synthesist
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > --- In emulatorII-list@yahoogroups.com, "christian.schwank" <c.schwank@> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > --- In emulatorII-list@yahoogroups.com, "esynthesist" <esynthesist@> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > > i have installed the driver, yes.. and rebooted for safty.
> > > > > I am using a standard floppy a: as internal drive.
> > > > > the error message is:
> > > > >
> > > > > ERROR: 11: Writing sectors was not successful. 27.
> > > > >
> > > > > My DPX-1 is OS 1.3
> > > > >
> > > > > EDIT:
> > > > > DPXWrite works after formating with yout DPXFormat Tool.
> > > > > The Error Message only comes, when i try to PDXWrite on a disk,
> > > > > which was formated in the Oberheim.
> > > > >
> > > > > ok, writing works so far, but when i put the disk in the
> > > > > DPX and press Load, the "dE" Errormessage comes up.
> > > > > File was copied with the .img ending. Hope the is correct.
> > > > >
> > > > > Any hints?
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > > What error do you get from DPXWRITE ?
> > > > > > Did you install the required floppy driver first (fdrawcmd) ?
> > > > > > Are you using an internal floppy drive (non-USB that is...) ?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > ///E-Synthesist
> > > > > >
> > > > > > --- In emulatorII-list@yahoogroups.com, "christian.schwank" <c.schwank@> wrote:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Hi,
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > I translated an .EII File with the DPXTools Software
> > > > > > > into the DPX Image Data.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Size goes up from 475kb to 880kb!
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > My Floppy Disks only have 720 kb Space.
> > > > > > > I also formated them in the DPX.
> > > > > > > But DPXWrite come up with an error message, when i
> > > > > > > try to copy the translated data.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > How do I get the 880b onto a floppy disk,
> > > > > > > or am i using the wrong type of disks?
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Christian
> > > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
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