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[markustg]

For those of you that have a Korg X2 or X3 or any unit that uses the floppy drives that use belt and have a 24 pin flat cable.

If your drive fails and the issue was not that it needed a new belt, finding a replacement drive is expensive (like $80 or $90 US) and difficult.

Long story but there are options out there.

You can find a drive that reads and writes 720k disks and buy a converter board that connects the old 24 pin flat cable from the X2/X3 to a 34 pin with seperate power supply.

If you are in Europe you are in luck as they are made there and are about $30US just search on that and you will find the company.

If you are in the US you can still buy them but because of Covid I was told shipping is only through DHL and that ads another $30!

So, my journey ended with me going on a vintage PC board, decribed my problem and a very nice memeber custom built me an interface board for $40 shipped. It works perfectly. It also should work with a Gotek Floppy emulator (720K compatable) and allow you to add one to your X2/X3. I have one but have not installed it yet.

PM me and I can give you his e-mail address as he has enough parts to make 2 more.

[markustg]

I did find a solution for this. A SONY floppy drive that is both 720K and 1.4MB capable and the command in MSDOS of format a:/f:720 allowed me to format the 720K disks and also pull the files from the old disks.

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