the emax is very picky with hot swap
drives
with the acard 7720u or uw these will work but the
only hotswap cf card drives i managed to get to work were the mcd drives and
they are even harder to get than the pcd drives
and were £70
now the delocks that work with everything else come
up as disk error on the emaxes
that addonics drive the atapi version does not work
but the standard versions that are bootable but not hot swap do but if you want
to change a cf card you have to switch of the emax
i also had teds last 7722 i did lots of tests with
them and they would not work with the hotswap atapi drives i flashed them in
windows and it would find the drives but once i rebooted the pc the atapi drive
would come up as null disk and then the pc would not see them but they work
great with zip drives which are atapi
it just goes to show that different manufacturers
dont all follow the same atapi standards even though its a protocol its left to
the manufacturers hpow to implement it
which is where the problems are as there is no
standard that they should all follow its the same for the scsi and why one type
works and 1 type does not
the 7720u does not work on ensoniqs but does on
emaxes and akai mpc60/3000
now the iodata idsc1/2-e cards work with ensoniqs
but not the emaxes nor the mpc60/3000 but the iodata isc e/r do work with
mpc60/3000 dont work with ensoniqs nor emaxes so its how the manufacturer
implements scsi and why its a such a head ache sorting out what does work and
what does not
like i said the delock atapi hotswap cf drives they
work with the akai ensoniqs kurzweils but dont work with the emax
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----- Original Message -----From: Ted SummersSent: Wednesday, November 06, 2013 5:24 AMSubject: Re: [emax] IDE to SCSI to CF card adapter setup?
In response:>>To get a 'system' that works, what do we buy?An suitable ACARD bridge (7720U is the best option as the others need adapters as they are 68 pin where Emax connection is 50pin IDC).A suitable IDE to CF drive (there isn't a lot of detailed info on what works or doesn't).You may just have to buy and try drives / adapters- fortunately these drives aren't too expensive- it's the ACARD that is the spendy part…>> Do you sell 'kits?No- I just happened to find a couple of ACARD for cheap at a re-use place….got lucky, really.>> If not, what specific items worked for you that we should buy?The only known working bridge adapter is the ACARD.There is an Yamaha bridge out there- someone tested and it didn't work.There is also some IDE-RSC board or something like that- it doesn't work either.I can't speak to any other specific parts, as again- my drive has no make / model on it, it's just generic.>> As far as the firmware- How do we update the Firmware on the IDE/SCSI controller card ?>> How is that done? Do we hook the card up Via an Adaptac SCSI card ;Mounted in a PCI slot on the PC>> And cable it up to the IDE-SCSI ;adapter card In order to update the firmware?Yes- you take the bridge and put it on say a IDE CDROM or Hard disk.Then connected just as you have described.You download the firmware flasher program from the ACARD website.You flash it from in windows.That's it….-TNo virus found in this message.
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