I can't imagine that there's anyway that that could possibly work in a Roland sampler. The floppy drives are not standard PC floppy drives. More information on floppy drives is here: http://www.generalconcepts.com/sgroup/fdrive.html Hope that helps - cheers! John On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 11:22:57PM +0100, JH wrote: | Just wondering if it's possible to remove the floppy drive from an | S-760 and to replace it with a USB drive like this? | http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Upgrade-3-floppy-drive-USB-flash-drive-/170549507064?… | | It seems to be a drop in replacement for any floppy drive, but i could | be wrong? | | Only problem i can think of would be to get the Roland OS on a USB | memory stick. When I did have an external "SCSI for Samplers CF-drive", | if i put a Roland format CF card into my Mac, it'd complain it could | not read the CF-card, and i was unable to read or write to the card. So | following on from that, to get the Roland S-760 OS on to a USB stick, | i could not do it via my Mac.

At 05:22 PM 10/12/2010, you wrote: The floppy drives that were made for the S-7x so long ago are much different then the floppy drives made now. The difference really isn't in the mechanism, it's in the firmware. Even the firmware isn't that much different, but the big difference is that since the S-7x was made, floppy standards have gotten more precise and less tolerant. In the days of the S-7x, there were many different floppy controller chips and ways they communicated. So lots of floppy drives had many jumpers to adapt to the different controllers available, whether they be in computers or embedded systems like the S-7x. By the late '90's, there was really no more controller cards - the floppy controller on a computer was on the motherboard and all the different ways of doing things was reduced to only one or a couple. So, following suit, floppy drives did away with their jumpers and became very plug-n-play. USB floppy drives are mostly a different animal. They are either 1) a regular floppy that hooks into a adapter board that translates the USB lingo to standardized floppy commands, or 2) a floppy drive with firmware designed from scratch to understand the USB lingo. Most USB floppy drives are the latter type, since computer floppy drives aren't mass-produced anymore and a USB flopy usually likes to be lighter and doesn't have to fit in a standard computer slot. So, back to your question: thinking a USB floppy drive could be made to work with a S-7x has two strikes against it. One is that the floppy's firmware is likely USB and that isn't the S-7x's lingo, and two is that even if it was a standard floppy, the S-7x's controller is probably not compatible with it. You can take the explanation and expand it to any hardware sampler made in the '80's/early '90's. USB != S-7x. No way, no how. You can use Translator Windows to format the card to Roland format. This ability will go into Translator Mac shortly. www.chickensys.com USB != S-7x. Forget it. Just use the SCSI CF-Card Reader, why do you need the USB stick? The S-7x is SCSI. Garth Hjelte Sampler User