Fairlight-CMI

Cheers Peter : thanks for the heads up : I eventually found that 1 of the CMI 31 cards was causing the issue, and have now replaced it with a spare. The system now boots in a consistent way, but not right though to the directory screen.

I eventually get an mptask I/O timeout error, when the CMI command runs.

However this is further than I was before :)

Next issue is that I seem to have blown another fuse : this time the lowest of the power lights at the back of the CMI mainframe does not light up anymore : it is labeled Audio + 20v and +5 Digital. 

I suspect that the fuse is in the bottom of the CMI somewhere : do I just need to summon superhuman strength and turn the mainframe upside down and start removing the screws at the bottom ? 

Cheers,

Arron


--- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, "horiprod" <horizontal_productions@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Arron.
> 
> To hopefully answer your questions:
> 
> > Can a series III boot with just a one memory board, one CMI-31 channel and no sampler card, and no midi board etc ? 
> 
> Yes. This is a good setup to begin with. Assuming it works like this, add cards until you get malfunctions...
> 
> > If I have just one CMI31 card, should it be in the leftmost slot, or the rightmost slot ?
> 
> It should be in the rightmost slot, next to the CMI32 or turbo-SCSI card. A second card would then be next to its left - you can't have any gaps. The memory cards can be in any position in the first 7 left slots, as their addresses are set with DIP switches.
> 
> Hope this helps...
> 
> Peter Wielk
> 
> Sent from my laptop in sunny London!
>