What's on your mind?
09-17-2014, 06:45 PM
Well, my lack of being online at all was due partially to classes. The other reason, however, I realize was a waste of time.
Call me a hipster, but for the past week, I've been trying to find a way to port sounds stored on floppies for one of my synthesizers onto my computer. The problem is that they are double-density floppies which are formatted at 800kB, whereas traditional floppies were formatted at either 720k or 1.44MB. Tried using a USB floppy drive, and that proved fruitless: the best I could get was 720k out of a test floppy, and instead of cutting off the beginning or end of the total data stored, bits were cut off from each sector!
Officially, I've given up on that medium except when it comes to booting the synthesizer (evidently, it needs an 800k-formatted floppy to start up properly) as of this morning, and will likely sell the floppy drive as well...
Call me a hipster, but for the past week, I've been trying to find a way to port sounds stored on floppies for one of my synthesizers onto my computer. The problem is that they are double-density floppies which are formatted at 800kB, whereas traditional floppies were formatted at either 720k or 1.44MB. Tried using a USB floppy drive, and that proved fruitless: the best I could get was 720k out of a test floppy, and instead of cutting off the beginning or end of the total data stored, bits were cut off from each sector!
Officially, I've given up on that medium except when it comes to booting the synthesizer (evidently, it needs an 800k-formatted floppy to start up properly) as of this morning, and will likely sell the floppy drive as well...