An unusual use for a D8B

[FrankH]

Recently, I had a catastrophic external HD failure. Mostly everything was backed up somewhere....except for a fairly large library of old Cubase files that had been generated on the old Atari platform. At one time, I had a PC with a floppy drive and had transferred all those files to my Mac. The original Atari data sits on DOS formatted floppies and I still had them all in storage.

So I thought about it for a while and tried this: I popped the old floppies into the D8B. Whaddya know? The files all showed up in the D8B's file manager. So I transferred them to the D8B's internal HD and ran 'em over to the Mac via FTP.

You need a copy of the older Cubase SX3 to read them and resave as Cubase .CPR files, so the latest version (Cubase 6) can read them and play them back. Bit convoluted...but by God, it works. And works like a charm.

[Petersueco]

Ha! The biggest Floppy to Ethernet adapter ever !!!

[csp]

I must try that with some of my old Atari files.

David

[FrankH]

I must try that with some of my old Atari files.

This will only work if you had presence of mind, back then, to have formatted your floppies as PC-DOS disks. I never used the native Atari DOS format. This is the only reason those old floppies are readable on the D8B's floppy drive.