i got it to work for my akai s900. i was able to make a disc for the updated os. seems to work better with older discs that the newer ones i have though....
ac wrote:
Has anyone actually got Omniflop to work??
On 15/03/2008, John Pallister <john@synchromesh.com> wrote:
> 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@synchromesh.com> 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
> john@synchromesh.com
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