10 Aug
2005
10 Aug
'05
12:33 p.m.
At 09:32 AM 8/10/2005 -0400, you wrote:
A solution has already been posted (adding the .out
extention), but I was
wondering if the problem above was trying to access the Superdrive with an
application running in Classic.
There's two issues here: one is getting the information from the floppy
drive onto the hard drive, and then getting that information (the .out
file) converted into Kontakt format.
My (perhaps mistaken) impression was you'd need to
actually boot up in OS
9 (not X/Classic) in order to run a pre-OS X app. and have it interface
with any sort of drive (other than the HD) or peripheral hardware. (Note
the Pwrbook running OS 9 worked fine.)
Might that be the problem? (If the .out extension works, I guess not .
. ...)
Colin knows better at this, but I believe SMac (or similar) only works in
booted OS9, and creates the same data as SDisk (DOS/Windows) does - a
byte-for-byte image of the contents of the floppy. That's the .out file
that Kontakt 2 can take and convert.
I'm familiar with Terje's utilities (I sold EPSm for Ensoniq stuff), so I'm
surprised that SMac can do this correctly - I guess Roland floppies are 9
sector things, not 10-sector onese.
Garth Hjelte
Sampler User