[sdiy] Ensoniq ASR-X weirdness

[Dave Brown]

I put a hard drive on my EPS-16+.  I organized it the way I wanted it, then removed it and put it into a Windows SCSI system.  Then I cloned that hard drive exactly to a CD.  I don’t remember the details now but the CD looks in size just like the hard drive which was about 300 MB.  Then I made about 10 copies of the CD and all I run now is a SCSI CD drive.  While I can never update the data, I have a reliable and backed up system.


Dave

 

From: Synth-diy [mailto:synth-diy-bounces at dropmix.xs4all.nl] On Behalf Of Michael Taylor
Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2015 12:35 PM
To: ChristianH; synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
Subject: Re: [sdiy] Ensoniq ASR-X weirdness

 

The Akai SCSI fuse issue was due to them not putting a resettable fuse in the SCSI chain. What would happen is people would hot swap SCSI drives(which is a no-no)and blow the fuse. 

 

>From what I understand, the fuse issue doesn't apply to Zip drives because they don't use active termination. 

 

I had this issue with an MPC3000 and it would not recognize a SCSI to CF drive. As soon as I swapped out the fuse it worked perfectly. 

 

If the ASR can see and access the drive(even if only for 1.2% of a format) it might not be the fuse. 

 

My gut reaction to this issue is to cut to the chase and get a CF solution from RaizinMonster or Lotharek. I'm really not comfortable trusting any data to a budget storage format that was questionable when it was new 15 years ago. 

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