this first question must be truly retarded, because i cant find an answer anywhere-
is the disk drive in the a3000 just a regular floppy drive that takes 3 1/4" floppy disks?
if so, can i just put wav files on one, and put it in the sampler and upload them?
do i have to have an scsi interface for my ibook?

The floppy drive must be standard, there's not many models around. a dive into a dedicated A3000 mailing list would help. Sampler can be a little special sometimes, so it better to ask users. it seems lots of sites have disapeared… oops… Some have put Zip drives instead of floppies.
some google hints (remove envetually the zip)

Else it reads wavs on DOS (no FAT) formatted floppies.

The SCSI interface is now important only to had a SCSI Hard Drive, as SCSI sampler support is a vanishing stuff in OSX, which IS A SHAME

thanks man- it looks like a regular disk drive, so i assume it is. im pretty sure that zip drives have fatter disks... and yeah, ive got to start using google... i always search on yahoo, and so far id found nothing whatsoever about the drives or anything else other than the need to use wav files...
luckily i have access to a regular pc, as well
and they make usb/scsi adapters, so maybe ill look into that as well...
your links were very helpful
much appreciation-

Zips are not only bigger, but faster… one site give the load time for a sample from different supports and the floppy is (surprise…) more than 10 times slower.

Note that Zips are like floppies prone to failure, so make backups!

I should look for something like that for my EMU 50000 Ultra… it'd be good for him. Especially with the SCSI support of samplers lacking in OSX software.