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Title: Dual Ell 3.5 Floppy drive? Post by: PX-7 on June 13, 2009, 06:08:11 PM Is this possible? has anyone done it? Would this be a bad thing for any reason?
Title: Re: Dual Ell 3.5 Floppy drive? Post by: rokuez on June 13, 2009, 07:50:25 PM Is this possible? has anyone done it? Would this be a bad thing for any reason? sense there are a lot of samples usually stored on a 5.25 floppy disk you might need to purchase an oberheim dpx-1 to convert them all to 3.5 (i'm assuming it can do this with EII format?) Title: Re: Dual Ell 3.5 Floppy drive? Post by: dr.c on June 14, 2009, 02:30:09 AM If you have a Mac, it can maybe (has to be tried) even possible to do it with Alchemy by MIDI transfer or RS422.
Title: Re: Dual Ell 3.5 Floppy drive? Post by: dr.c on June 14, 2009, 02:32:07 AM Look at this thread :
http://eiiiforum.com/index.php?topic=257.15 (http://eiiiforum.com/index.php?topic=257.15) Title: Re: Dual Ell 3.5 Floppy drive? Post by: PFM on June 14, 2009, 05:01:16 AM I've been usind an EII with dual 3.5 drives with no problems (apart from the time it's taken to transfer everything over from 5.25!). The DPX-1 only saves to DPX format 3.5" disks - not EII format 3.5" disks, so I don't think that's an option. SD transfers from a Mac is the way to go.
Title: Re: Dual Ell 3.5 Floppy drive? Post by: Elmbeatz on June 15, 2009, 01:59:22 AM ...SD transfers from a Mac is the way to go. That's right. But .. I didn't know that it's possible to have an EII that also boots from 3,5"... Title: Re: Dual Ell 3.5 Floppy drive? Post by: PFM on June 15, 2009, 01:21:55 PM The dual 3.5" has been working for me for over 10 years, and I've yet to experience any problems with the high density 3.5" disks - which are technically unsuitable as double density substitutes apparently; but covering the HD hole so that the EII drive sees it as a DD disk seems to be working still.
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