Maybe this is the Panasonic issue that affects the emulators as well on the Floppy Emulators?Īny suggestions? Don't want to waste $250 on drives we cannot use, and desks that will soon be useless as we have now run out of floppy disks. It seems that there is a difference in the way the mainboards talk to the floppy drives that upset the communication, even though the emulator communicates exactly like a Floppy drive.

Plus, its powered through the USB port, so no AC adapter is needed. Is there some change in the 2004 board, that can be retrofitted to the 2001 mainboard perhaps. The drive reads and writes standard 1.44MB floppy disks and has a fast data transfer. (Remember both desks, same software, exactly same config ect) The drives (both of them) work fine in the 2004 mainboard, but in the 2001 unit, the drive reads for about 15 seconds, then the desk complains there is no disk. It seems that we have two desks with the latest software 10.1 from memory, but one desk has a 2001 mainboard, the other has a 2004 mainboard. All seemed OK, so we ordered the second drive.Īfter installing both drives in both Mambo Frogs, one was working fine, the other was not, after a LOT of mucking around and fault finding, I have discovered that the issues are not with the floppy emulators, but are with the two Mambo Frogs! Have purchased two of these drives http:after testing one of our desks first to see if the drives would work.

Floppy emulator usb driver