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tonyvfish



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PostPosted: Sun Jan 10, 2016 11:43 am    Post subject: Korg i3 floppy Reply with quote

Hello All,
I wonder if you may be able to advise me.
I have recently purchased a korg i3 which has a floppydrive 34 pin variety. I have also fitted a floppy usb emulator made by Gotek.
http://www.ebay.com/bhp/usb-floppy-emulator.

When I try and use the so called compatible drive I get an error message "no disk in drive".

Of course I'm not asking for support on their product, but I'd would like to know the following :-
Can anyone recommend an emulator that does not cost the earth. The keyboard was only £120

How does the floppy in the i3 differ from a standard ibm pc floppy so I can adapt the Gotek.

Could I achieve backup using midi an system ex dumps or something similar.

Thanks for any advice


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karmathanever
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 10, 2016 1:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi Tony

I install the USB-Floppy drive in my Korg KARMA keyboard and my Yamaha QY700 sequencer and the both worked perfectly.
You can get them on e-bay - I can't remember where I bought mine but they were both about $30 each with software for building the USB drive.


Cheers

Pete Very Happy
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tonyvfish



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PostPosted: Sun Jan 10, 2016 2:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi Pete, I already tried a generic usb to floppy convertor with no success hence my post
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tonyvfish



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 27, 2016 2:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi all I have the emulator working... with one small exception . I have only 1 got of 3 virtual floppies working but that still leave me with 30 virtual floppies on 1 memory stick Smile

SFRM72-TU100K USB Floppy Drive Emulator
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/r.html?C=3AOWPWPM94BIV&K=A37MT007RLC4RB&R=1TVZ3Y72E9EWM&T=C&U=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.co.uk%2Fdp%2FB008HYUDV2%2Fref%3Dpe_385721_37038051_TE_3p_dp_1&A=10WD3PXJCIT4UNDFWFHPKKNNEQ0A&H=CTKFXQAVHYFSB9ODASKA05ZFHAIA&ref_=pe_385721_37038051_TE_3p_dp_1

make sure you have the jumpers on
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karmathanever
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 28, 2016 3:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

You should have 100 virtual floppy disks 00-99.

Is that now working for you?

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tonyvfish



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PostPosted: Thu May 05, 2016 7:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi Pete
No but it doesn't really bother me 30 is enough.
Just please i didn't spend nearly 100 on the pucker emualtor and got it working for £20
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