Patches and discussion for Ensoniq VFX family

I would guess that the ribbon cable goes into the drive, and the other 
cable may be a separate power supply for the drive.
Hopefully, the previous owner didn't have access to new ribbon, 
explaining the attempted repair, as the cable ought to plug into the 
main board somewhere, and you should be able to replace the ribbon cable 
as well s the drive. That looks a long ribbon. If you can't get new 
ribbon with the proper connectors on each end, those connectors may open 
to place a cable strip in it. You may find the wrong connect to on the 
disk drive end of the cable, if the previous owner tried wiring up to a 
disk drive from another computer, or keyboard.

Also, I'd hope the drive was faulty, not the mother board, and that the 
previous owner hasn't damaged the board.

Either way, that does look promising.

Good Luck...

Ralph :-)



philip_tompsett2002 wrote:

>It seems my disk drive has been chopped by a previous owner and from 
>the mutilated wires I doubt I could reinstall one (see mutilation 
>pics at http://philssynths.4t.com/photo2.html ). 
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>I'm going to try to work out disk to sysex and how to get them into 
>the SD1.
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>Thanks for the help much appreciated and great to solve the mystery.
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>Phil
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