Roland VS-840 question / zip disk

[Duce Malmay]

I have not posted in a few years & see that the Roland page went away. Is there a better place for me to go?

In case someone knows: I bought some new zip disks for my VS-840 today. For whatever reason these disks will not even go into the machine. I load them like I've loaded any other & have never had this problem before. My old ones still work. When I slide the disk in it immediately ejects. The only difference between the old & new disks are that the new ones are 750 MB while the old ones are 100 MB. Would this make a difference? The disks appear to be physically identical. They both have "Iomega 1994" on them.

thanks-

[Wish14]

The original 840 could only use 100 MB disks...the 840EX and 840GX could use 250 MB disks and it could read the 100 MB zip disks...I'm not sure if they could write to the 100 MB ones though.

None of the 840's could use the 750 MB zip disks though....there is a size limitation in the 840...so hopefully you can get your money back on the 750's...

A few people have replaced the zip drives with card readers, so you can use SD and CF cards and I think some other types, and easily get the tracks into a computer for further editing. I think the max size card that can be used is 512 MB. It also gives you a silent machine....no zip drive noise.

There's a couple of threads on the card reader conversion over in the 840 forum at the VS Planet if you want to check that out.

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