Saving a HUGE show file! Floppy Slow!

Alrighty Ladies and Gents:

I'm wondering if anyone's tried to figure out a way to make a faster save happen with a WholeHog II...?

My showfile (which is used 365 days a year, 24 hours a day) uses THREE disks, soon to be FOUR. Updating weekly gets to be a chore when 25 minutes has to go towards each save of the show file. Also prevents me from not updating as often as I'd like when programming...

Has anyone come up with a solution to get a faster save out of the console? I'm assuming the drive can't be replaced with something like a SuperDisk...and I've seen floppys that take flash memory cards that transfer at 500 kb/s...but I believe you have to install software, and it must be a windows machine.

Any ideas? I'm assuming this doesn't come up too much :)
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    There had been special floppy drives a long time (maybe mid 90s?!?) ago that would fit 2.88mb or even more on a disk. These drives did also save quicker on special disks and where compatible (in terms of the internal connection and protocol used) with normal ibmpc floppy drives. I saw a hog2 with such a drive once on a festival somewhere in southern germany a few years ago. This desk did definitely save faster than usual.
    But I'm sure these drives are not manufactured any more and I assume you need the special floppies to have the speed improvement - those will also be hard to find.
    I would suggest you buy a superwidget and use some PC with hog2pc. Working with such big shows on the 2 sucks, not only saving takes forever but the whole desk is getting very slow and a pain to work with. Whenever I did program large shows (especially with overdrive units), I loaded the shows in my laptop after having made the presets on the real desk and programmed 90% of the show blind.

    Jan
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    There had been special floppy drives a long time (maybe mid 90s?!?) ago that would fit 2.88mb or even more on a disk. These drives did also save quicker on special disks and where compatible (in terms of the internal connection and protocol used) with normal ibmpc floppy drives. I saw a hog2 with such a drive once on a festival somewhere in southern germany a few years ago. This desk did definitely save faster than usual.
    But I'm sure these drives are not manufactured any more and I assume you need the special floppies to have the speed improvement - those will also be hard to find.
    I would suggest you buy a superwidget and use some PC with hog2pc. Working with such big shows on the 2 sucks, not only saving takes forever but the whole desk is getting very slow and a pain to work with. Whenever I did program large shows (especially with overdrive units), I loaded the shows in my laptop after having made the presets on the real desk and programmed 90% of the show blind.

    Jan
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