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Re: [Fairlight-CMI] Re: Timeout on mptask #228

2008-08-13 by Harald Feldmann

Hi peter !

Aye, e after i, I see :)

thanks for your suggestions !

I'll check the cards, glad I have replacement Midi cards. How could I
check the surface and integrity of the harddrive ? It is the original one
(probably not a scsi). If this is an MFM drive, what are the odds of
succesfully hooking it up to an old PC and making a backup with Ghost or
similar ?
The machine runs software 6.03.

Cheers !
Harald

> Hi Harald.
>
> Very briefly, I beleive the CMI software does some rudimentary
> hardware checking on boot-up. mptask is, I beleive, midi processor
> related, although I've seen this many, many times with a bad channel
> card. Try unseating all the channels except for channels 1 and 2 (card
> furthest right), and try other channel cards in this slot. If it still
> doesn't boot, try a known good CMI-28 MIDI/SMPTE card. Could also be
> corrupted software, hard disc problem too...
>
> Hope this is of some help,
>
> regards,
>
> Peter Wielk
>
> Horizontal Productions in sunny Sydney
>
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