HELP: Akai S900 Freezes when Recording Sample?

[AkaiS900]

It's Like the Ram is dead, maybe it's the floppy drive thats dead, found some info that a bad floppy drive could affect the ram, but since I got no S900 formatted floppy I'm not sure of this, Seems like I'm able to format floppys, but it seems to be a quicker process than I Imagined, Much faster than my 3000XL & MPC2000.
But There need to be a floppy in the drive or it will freeze when powered up.
Anybody with a S900, you could tell me: Is it not possible to use the sampler without a floppy in the drive?
How long a working formatting usually take, 30 seconds...? 2 minutes...?

Is it possible to make a S900 Floppy with a few samples on it on my computer, maybe I could check to see if the floppy could load & save

Seems strange that this could be a bad floppy drive...

anybody know this problem?

[Jidis]

Hi,

If nobody in here knows, you may want to try somewhere like KVR's hardware forum or somewhere that more people are using old rack samplers (or even the Rap or Electronic Music sections here). There's probably somebody that sits in front of a 900 all day who can tell you anything.

On the floppy formatting- It sounds like it may be doing a "quick" format or something where it just changes the file table or something to show that the disk is blank, but without a working unit, I guess it's hard to verify that the formats are actually good.

Good luck on it!

PS- A friend tried to give me an S950 a few years back too, but I felt bad taking it and turned it down. Always regretted that, but I've got two Peavey DPM SP Plusses and a Kurzweil 2500RS collecting dust that I always swore I'd use. Can't get me off these damn computers now.

[AkaiS900]

Okay, today i turned on my old Computer with floppydrive & akaidisk installed, The floppy that was formatted on the akai is recognized to be a S900 floppy, then I dumped some samples on it, put it in the sampler & turned it on, the sampler displays the files on the disk are being loaded into memory, and if i then press disk button, the display says internal memory 16% and floppy memory ...% and so on, so the floppydrive seems to be Ok, seems it both reads and formats disks (cannot test the writing abbillities though)... but if i press edit sample, with the samples in memory, it freezes, if i try to record a sample it freezes, tryed a few times, and the message ooops bad floppy or something also came up a few times, maybe this could be some stupid little fuse or something, like the scsi fuse issue with the S3000's, im beginning to doubt that its either the ram or the drive...
I have been reading that bad drives could make the S900/S950's freeze like this, so I'll try to get a Amiga 600 drive if I find one cheap, to test if that solves the problem.

oh by the way, I got OS 1.2, and the ASK90 expansion board installed, so another question is, do I need newer OS????

Hopefully I will get this thing fixed in the near future, I need this 12 bit sampler in my setup....

[miles_stevens]

Mine has just started doing the same thing... I'm going to investigate now.