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Title: EII and omniflop! Post by: tomc on March 17, 2011, 11:43:55 AM I dont own an EII (yet)
but I have some very important EII discs I need to back up for a musician buddy of mine. His EII is down! But we want to back up the discs before we sell it. I've hooked up a 5.25" floppy drive to an XP machine. Usually the machine sees it. Onmiflop seems to see it Does omniflop support EII format? Title: Re: EII and omniflop! Post by: esynthesist on March 17, 2011, 03:33:21 PM Quote Does omniflop support EII format? No, not at all.The floppy drive controller in a PC simply can't handle the exotic disk format of the EII. Backing up EII disks can only be done by one of the following methods: 1/ By dumping its sound bank vis RS422 to a Mac or PC. But for this you need a working EII and moreover only the sound banks can be copied, not the operating system or library disks. 2/ By creating a backup disk on a Oberheim DPX-1. For this you need of course a DPX-1, and again only sound banks can be copied. Moreover the backup versions (on 3.5 disks) can not be used anymore on an EII. 3/ By creating a full disk copy with the KryoFlux USB floppy drive controller on a Windows PC. For this you have to buy a KryoFlux device (see www. kryoflux.com) and use a spare 5.25 drive connected to the KryoFlux. This method is the only one which supports a full disk backup (both performance and library disks). |