Received the converter today, it took only 4 days from the time of shipping to get here in Ohio from India.
It was packed well with no visible damage.
Purchased from
Kwality Enterprises
80, Queen's Road
Near Hotel Suncity Towers,
Amritsar (Punjab,India).143001
Ph: 0183-2224554, Fax:0183-5005595
(m): +919780485865
Vishal Chohan
[email protected]
Install was pretty straight forward, the unit replaces the 3.5" drive.
There was a little pin confusion shown in the photo.
Vishal's solution was to just press the ribbon cable a bit harder and it will unblock that pin, which it did.
Formatting of the flash drive was pretty straight forward as well, the usual issues of not really knowing what was expected but all went well on this and the install after just a couple inquireing email, all answered promptly.
Each flash drive is formatted into the equivalent of 100 3.5" Floppies.
These 100 (0-99) blocks of floppy equivalents can be accessed from the converter at the control.
To save files to these block from the PC requires a separate program that is included with the converter purchase, this software also formats the Flash drive.
True, an extra step is required to save data on each individual block from your PC, but it is quick and uncomplicated.
You have the equivalent of 100 floppies on the flash drive (a 4gb is recommended) so you must remember on what block your CNC Post is on.
So now, hopefully, all those many trips back to the PC to reload the post onto yet another floppy will be a thing of the past.
It worked well on first use, time will tell on the full scope of it's use and reliability.
Now, what to do with 4 cases of floppies
Ken