[sdiy] Ensoniq ASR-X weirdness

[Dave Brown]

I don't know anything about ASR-X.  I have the EPS 16+.  What I do know on
this version the SCSI bus attenuation power has to come from the drive which
is very non-standard (in my experience).  I've yet to see a drive that
enables this easily so on my drives I have to modify them to provide it (the
drive provides the power to the EPS 16+ for termination in the synth).  I
don't know if the ASR-X does this or not but it might be worth checking on
the SCSI instructions.  Just a wild guess.

Dave

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Synth-diy [mailto:synth-diy-bounces at dropmix.xs4all.nl] On Behalf Of
> Travis Thatcher
> Sent: Monday, November 30, 2015 3:06 PM
> To: Synth DIY
> Subject: [sdiy] Ensoniq ASR-X weirdness
> 
> Not necessarily synth DIY so apologies but I'm stumped on this one. I have
an
> ASR-X (the black one) that won't format Zip disks. It starts to format and
then
> stops at 1.1% every time. I've tried 2 different zip drives and many
different
> brand new discs with the same results every time. Tried at least 2
different
> scsi cables as well. Has anyone else experienced this? I unfortunately
don't
> have access to a scsi hard drive or another device to test stuff with. Any
> suggestions would be greatly appreciated.