To read these floppies, the read/write head of the floppy must be instructed to move, park, and set in different ways.
Often they require 10-sectors, and the sector width on the disk is thinner. Proprietary floppy disk formats are highly unique in that the actual physical area that is marked off on the disk is a different cylindrical pattern than the standard 9-sector DOS format.
Both restrictions are firmware limitations that our products have no way of circumventing. You MUST use a internal floppy drive, operating off the internal floppy controller, on a PC itself (never a Mac running VM software). Lastly, please note that USB floppy drives DO NOT WORK. Thsi is good anyway, since most computers running Win7 and above do not have a floppy drive anyway. This being what it is, we recommend that you use the floppy functions with nothing beyond Windows XP 32-bit. Even so, we have heard of inconsistant results. One further note: OmniFlop is known to run on 64-bit operating systems but you must download the 64-bit driver. Their instructions are clear please refer all install questions to them. We apologize for not including the driver in our installer however this is not permitted by OmniFlop's licensing terms. After installing OmniFlop, Ensoniq Disk Tools will access floppies as normal. You can download it here: Please install it by following their complete and thorough directions. If you want to access Ensoniq floppies, you MUST install the OmniFlop driver. So now floppy drive access is possible again, and all versions of Ensoniq Disk Tools after version 3 support the OmniFlop driver. Thus, the calls necessary to control the floppy disk controller didn't exist anymore.Ī concern called OmniFlop changed things, as they wrote a replacement floppy disk driver for modern Windows operating systems. This is because XP and Vista (and 2000 and NT) no longer use the old MS-DOS operating system. How, with the advent of the modern Windows operating systems such as XP and Vista, this went away. This was done using calls to DOS, to manipulate the floppy disk controller that it would read the floppy disks properly.Įarlier versions of Ensoniq Disk Tools, running on Windows 98 and earlier, were able to makes these calls and read and write and format Ensoniq floppy disks. Some bright people in the '90's found a way to coax a PC computer to read the floppies, though. Since the Ensoniq EPS/ASR is really a specialized computer, and since the engineers really didn't forsee the need to have computers read the floppies, they came up with their own little "private Idaho" format. This is because Ensoniq samplers were made back in the time where floppy disk standards were not established yet. Floppy disks created by an Ensoniq EPS/ASR cannot be read by a normal Windows computer.
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