emusonacid!

Anyone have any luck with this floppy emulation drive? I'm thinking about bypassing the hard-drive, and loading wav files via usb, since the floppy drive is able to read that format.

http://www.ipcas.com/products/usb-floppy-emulator-fdd-to-udd.html

The price is 249,00 Euro PLUS VAT & shipping.

As far as I see:
- The USB-Stick will be a bunch of virtual floppy discs with a capacity of 1.44MB each.
- You have to select the "floppy disc" you would like to use.
- There's nothing told about transfer-speed. It looks like loading/saving is as fast as with a real floppy drive.

If you have a Bank of 100MB. It would take approx. 70 virtual floppy discs to store this 100MB Bank to the USB-Stick.
If you use a 8GB USB-Stick you will have approx. 5690 virtual floppy discs.
-> Happy floppy switching ;-)

Another question is:
How do I get WAV- or AIFF-files onto this USB-Stick so that EOS can load the WAV- or AIFF-files from this USB-Stick?
You need two of this USB floppy emulation devices for file exchange between PC/MAC and EOS.
What about WAV-/AIFF-files that are larger than 1.44MB?
How are larger WAV-/AIFF-files disassembled and transferred to this virtual floppy disc so that EOS is able to read and reassemble them?

Let's calculate ...
->That's about 500 Euro PLUS VAT & shipping PLUS a USB-Stick for exchange of some WAV- or AIFF-files.
For this money I can get some removable media stuff like ZIP-discs, SCSI- & ATA-ZIP-drives on the 2nd hand market.

Just my 2 cents...