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Posted by: gogh Thu 23 Sep 2004, 04:36

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?

Posted by: lepetitmartien Thu 23 Sep 2004, 17:34

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.
http://nav.440network.com/out.php?mmsc=forums&url=http://www.google.com/search?hl=fr&ie=UTF-8&as_qdr=all&q=A3000+install+floppy+drive+zip+-amiga+-debian&btnG=Rechercher&lr=

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

Posted by: gogh Thu 23 Sep 2004, 20:01

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-

Posted by: lepetitmartien Sat 25 Sep 2004, 03:38

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.