Fairlight-CMI

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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Hi Harald.

Check the cards first, as they are by far the more likely cause. If 
you still have no joy, re-post me and I'll talk you through software 
and hard discs.

Regards,

Peter Wielk

Horizontal Productions in sunny Sydney


> 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.