Floppy emulator problem

[Phil.c]

Ok, I'm missing something?

This is what's been done so far, the old floppy drive has been swapped for the emulator, I've copied the download to the stick, when I open the stick on my pc I get 100 partitions.

When I copy a project from my d8b to the new floppy drive it copies ok, but when I try to open the drive to view the copied files I get "FATAL FREE ERROR" and the d8b re-boots?

[arjepsen]

Hey.
I'm a bit confused by what you write:

I've copied the download to the stick, when I open the stick on my pc I get 100 partitions.

Do you mean you copied the file you downloaded to the usb-stick? 'Cause that wont do much - you need to run that file on your pc to install the program you use to manage the usb-stick with.
However, you write that the stick has a 100 partitions, so I wonder if you are doing things right, or if you used the software to partition that usb-stick earlier?

[Phil.c]

Whatever I did to the stick originally, I deleted, I opened the download on my PC, it contained four files, manual in English and I think German, I forget what the other two files are called but I just copied one of them and pasted it to the stick, but I'll try running the download tomorrow if I can get up the run option.

[Phil.c]

When I open the file I get four files, I can only open as administrator, when I do, I just get the 100 partitions?

[arjepsen]

That is the program you use to manage the stick.

If you check out this guide:
http://www.sonido-7.com/d8b/tpis.html#Post23
It explains how to use the program to partition/format the stick.
You don't have to install the mentioned images, if you're not reinstalling.
But then you just use the same program to access each partition.
You can do this by right-clicking the specific partition and choose open or write, depending on what you wanna do.

[Phil.c]

So the emulator itself is connected to the PC to write the program to it.

[arjepsen]

no. The emulator just reads and write to the partitions on the usb-stick, and presents them as floppy disks to the attached pc (in this case the cpu-unit).
But this partitioning is ... well.... sort of confusing to windows. Hence the need for the program, when you want to read or write to the partitions on your regular pc.

[Phil.c]

Trying to get my head around this, ok, the program is on the pc, so how is a saved mix project on the cpu copied to the pc program to write onto the stick?

Sorry about this

[arjepsen]

It's ok - I don't mind answering

1) The emulator is connected inside the cpu-unit, replacing the original floppy disk. (using exactly the same connections).

2) Then a usb-stick is formatted on your pc, using the software. This creates about 100 small partitions on the disk - the size of a floppy disk. (So you have 100 floppy disks on the usb-stick).

3) Then you could take the usb-stick and plug it into the emulator in the cpu-unit. You choose the partition (disk) you want to work on with the buttons and display on the emulator. Then you could write your session info to that partition - the cpu-unit will see it as a floppy disk being written on. Same would go for reading.

4) Then take the usb-stick back to the pc. Access the partition you wrote to through the software.

Did that help, or am I confusing you more?

[Phil.c]

That helps, but why would you want to access the partions on a pc, isn't it ok to use the stick the same as a floppy, so, copy the projects to it from the cpu, then take it out, for booting up etc, then when a project is needed, pop it back in either open or copy the project to the HD?