emusonacid!

I'm currently having my E4k serviced and repaired or so to speak. I would like to find out if the stiffy drive breaks down can it be replaced.?

The reason I am asking this is because it could be many things and I don't want to think that far at least if I can help it lol.

The boot up disk when placed in the floppy drive says 'Not formatted' so could it be that I never copied the OS onto the disc properly or is the stiffy drive broken?
Or what else could it be?

Just as I suspected the stiffy drive is damaged and I cannot boot up the E4K, Can you buy a stiffy drive for the E4k?

I really don't get your stiffy drive thing. There was never a need to boot eos from a disc, you just turn it on.

Dereck means "floppy" drive. It looks as though his E4K won't boot up on its own, so I sent him a tried and tested floppy with EOS3.00b on it (created on my own E4K) so he can re-install it.

As I understand it, the E4K won't rcognise the floppy disc and says it is unformatted or something.

Could it be that the floppy drive is knackered? If so, can it be swapped for a standard PC drive or does he need to look for a specific drive?

Gilles

Ah, I see. I would guess that the 3.5 station is a quite regular one, so you might try to find an old computer that has one and then transplant it, but before going to soo drastic measure you might wanna be completly sure that that's the problem

you must replace the floppy with a slimline scsi drive of the same type as in the e4k;the same type of drive is used in the esynth.i have a spare for $15u.s. if you want it.it needs the green led replaced at the front though,so you could remove your existing drive and swap them.to test the floppy drive in your e4k,go to the diagnostics test page and enter the password then do a read/write test with a formatted floppy and see what happens. traxzone

traxzone wrote:you must replace the floppy with a slimline scsi drive of the same type as in the e4k;the same type of drive is used in the esynth.i have a spare for $15u.s. if you want it.it needs the green led replaced at the front though,so you could remove your existing drive and swap them.to test the floppy drive in your e4k,go to the diagnostics test page and enter the password then do a read/write test with a formatted floppy and see what happens. traxzone

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the E-mu floppy drives are not SCSI. They use a standard PC FDD interface with a 34-pin IDC connector. So unless the E4k or E-Synth drive is a slim drive like you say (like the ones for laptops), then any PC floppy drive will do.

the floppy drives used in e4k/esynth are 28 pin scsi slimline drives ;all other drives used in e4`s are standard size ide type .they are made by a company called ye-data. traxzone.