Sequential circuits samplers

Ah now I see the problem. When my disk went bad I searched for a disk
from an old IBM AT. Fortunatly, I only need to go to my garage. Bulk
erasing a floppy will not damage the Prophet. It will erase everything
on the disk which is what you need to do. 

Steve


--- In prophet2000@y..., Sevo Stille <sevo@i...> wrote:
> Duc Luu wrote:
> 
> > Wincountry installed new os and 512k including a new diskdrive
from the 
> > prophet 3000. They said it couldn't format disks. Maybe you are
right, 
> > but I'm reluctant to try. I do'nt want to damage the unit/
> 
> 
> This presumably means they installed a 1.44MB drive - which can't
format 
> both HD disks (these get formatted as 1.44, which is obviously useless) 
> and preformatted DD disks (as the narrower heads on HD drives can't 
> reliably remove the old formatting from the DD heads). You will have to 
> locate unformatted DD disks, or at the very least unformatted HD disks 
> on which you would have to stick a bit of non-transparent tape over the 
> HD hole.
> 
> Sevo