[sdiy] Ensoniq ASR-X weirdness

[Travis Thatcher]

Thanks Dave,

I wonder if there's an issue with the termination...I think Iomega Zip
drives are meant to work without mods with the ASR X however I'm
curious if the internal termination of the ASR is malfunctioning. It
is set to 'on' in the settings. Does anyone know how to actually
electrically test termination on a scsi chain?

On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 8:25 PM, Dave Brown <davebr at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 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.
>
>



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