Korg i3 floppy

tonyvfish · Post by **tonyvfish** » Sun Jan 10, 2016 11:43 am

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

karmathanever · Post by **karmathanever** » Sun Jan 10, 2016 1:51 pm

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

tonyvfish · Post by **tonyvfish** » Sun Jan 10, 2016 2:35 pm

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

tonyvfish · Post by **tonyvfish** » Wed Jan 27, 2016 2:22 pm

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

SFRM72-TU100K USB Floppy Drive Emulator
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/r.html?C=3A ... TE_3p_dp_1

make sure you have the jumpers on
MO+JA

karmathanever · Post by **karmathanever** » Thu Jan 28, 2016 3:39 am

You should have 100 virtual floppy disks 00-99.

Is that now working for you?

Cheers

Pete

tonyvfish · Post by **tonyvfish** » Thu May 05, 2016 7:57 am

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