Members OPEN OCEAN Posted October 11, 2016 Members Share Posted October 11, 2016 Hi All Its been a while. I was given away an obsolete nowdays Emu Esi 32 and i have a question. When i try to format a floppy disk - actually i have a a few hundred very old disks here of various formats and i have tried around 20 of them - while formatting goes well, when i get to "verifying" i never get a "completed" message, i get many other and most often "CRC ERROR". I also have an optical disk so no worries about getting samples into the sampler but i wanted to clear this out as well.Any ideas ? is there a problem with the very old disks or the floppy drive ? Thx. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted October 12, 2016 Share Posted October 12, 2016 I haven't fired up my old ESI-32 in ages, but I suspect the CRC error could be either from a bad floppy disk or a bad drive. I have no way of knowing which one is the cause in your case - sorry! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members OPEN OCEAN Posted October 12, 2016 Author Members Share Posted October 12, 2016 Hi Phill thanks for the answer anyway, all the best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members erok123 Posted October 29, 2016 Members Share Posted October 29, 2016 As I think I remember, my old EMU used 720K (Ds/dd) disks, like this: http://www.ebay.com/itm/3-5-DS-DD-Floppy-Disk-720K-Unformatted-DSDD-New-Sealed-Box-of-10-/201227860235 You might want to verify if this is the case with yours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members andr229k Posted November 1, 2016 Members Share Posted November 1, 2016 As I think I remember, my old EMU used 720K (Ds/dd) disks, like this: http://www.ebay.com/itm/3-5-DS-DD-Floppy-Disk-720K-Unformatted-DSDD-New-Sealed-Box-of-10-/201227860235 You might want to verify if this is the case with yours. I know this may sound like a non-old school solution: Why not just replace the floppy drive with a Gotek USB Floppy Emulator? You can have like 1000 floppy images pr. usb drive and throw out all those old non-working floppies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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