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Re: [Simmons Drums] Simmons SDX Boot From Hard Drive

2008-04-24 by Patrice Jacquot

I'm very happy it finally worked  !!!
what a mistery in the end this operation ...

But to make it bootable you have to copy as the first file your SDX  
System...

& after naming X kit1 Xkit 2 etc ...
I think the X obliges the SDX to read in a second time the kits ...

I thtink there was one English guy on the yahoo group who could helop  
you who even had a Sequencer working good onthe SDx..
The ones I had never worked ...


about yourHD , it should format as a 70M° at once...

You should read again how to format the all thing & the disks slots as  
long as there is space on the HD ...
So continue to format some disks slots it should work ...

Therefore, remember Bill Bruford had only a 20M° HD & did wonderful  
things with it ...


BE CAREFUL to the Soft limits  54 instruments & 100 samples in each  
DISK SLOT !!!
THERE IS NO ERROR MESSAGE !!!
A friend of mine  who brought my unit for studio sessions had erased  
half of the kits like this ...without suspecting it ...
& I did it too...
I think I asked Dave 4 or 5 times for some kits & samples   
replacements...

anyway ,
I'm very glad you succeeded !
so WELCOME to the SDX world !!!
Let me hear all good sounding things you'll do with it ...

Patrice.



Le 24 avr. 08 à 16:55, rolandbrenner@netzero.net a écrit :

> OK, I finally was able to obtain a few SCSI HD's to mess around  
> with. I was finally able to get one of them to format under  
> Patrice's instructions ( Thanks Pat !!! ). I was able to configure  
> the drive as a 20MB so far ( actual capacity is 80MB ) although I  
> only created 1 partition. I guess I could try to configure it in 4  
> equal partitions.
>
> The next hurdle is to make the HD bootable. I am able to copy all  
> the samples, kits etc., so everything seems to be fully functional  
> as using it for storing.
>
> Any thoughts or methods in making this thing bootable? Also, if  
> anyone needs specifics on the drives I tried let me know and I'll  
> post the details. - Roland
>
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