Akai S2000 notes
Have started work on upgrading my Akai S2000, so thought I’d capture some notes for posterity on how to get the Gotek floppy emulator working.
Swapping the Floppy Drive for the Gotek emulator
Removing the old floppy drive is just a case of removing 4 screws from the underside of the S2000 as well as the power and IDE cables. This gives you access to a further 4 screws which secure the floppy drive to the metal chassis.
Once separated, you can then mount the Gotek onto the metal chassis, connect the power and IDE cables to it and finally reattach the chassis to the S2000 itself via the 4 screws on the underside. All being well, it should then look something like this…
Gotek / Flash Floppy Configuration
The Gotek I ordered already had FlashFloppy pre-installed, so I went to their Github page to see what configuration settings were needed.
Using a USB drive formatted as FAT32, I created a file in the root directory called ‘FF.CFG’
I then updated it with the relevant parameters for Akai samplers which in my case were…
host = akai
interface = ibmpc-hdout
nav-mode = native
The instructions also mention setting jumper S0 which a quick Google revealed means ‘Disk 0’. Mine arrived set as S1, so I just moved the jumper to S0.
S2000 OS Image
And that should be all you need to get the S2000 to boot from USB via Gotek!
Further reading
Here are some links that helped me along the way…
HxC Floppy Driver Emulator Forum – S2000 thread
http://akai.mnx2010.nl/
https://jimatwood.wordpress.com/tag/akai-usb-to-scsi/
http://martin78.com/tag/sampler/
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