Vintage Synth Repair

Have you set different SCSI address for each of SCSI devices? Maybe  
there's just device address conflict.

Daniel Forro

On 25 Nov 2010, at 10:57 AM, brofjw wrote:

> Hi. I've had this Kurzweil K2000R for about a year now and I'm  
> starting to think it's jinxed. It seemed to have a dead internal  
> battery, something I knew when I bought it. I found out later that  
> the battery holder had cracked (as many K2000R's have). While I had  
> the cover open, I also noticed that this unit actually had a hard  
> drive inside but someone had disconnected both the power and the  
> ribbon cable. Until then I had been using floppies and an SCSI cd- 
> drive. I plugged the hard rive in and was thrilled to find it  
> worked perfectly. (Why would someone unplug it if it worked fine?)  
> Anyway sent away to Hong Kong for a generic battery holder and  
> replaced the factory one with it. That also worked perfectly.  
> Here's where the trouble starts:
>
> After ascertaining that the hard drive worked, I also plugged back  
> in my SCSI CD-drive. For some reason the K2000 didn't pick it up. I  
> figured the internal hard drive must have replaced the SCSI drive.  
> So I uplugged the hard drive again and tried to boot the CD-drive.  
> No dice. At this point when I hit "disk", the K2000 only  
> acknowledges the flopy drive and there is no list of either the  
> hard drive or SCSI. What's more, it seems to get stuck on the  
> "disk" menu and refuses all commands thereafter. Does anyone have  
> any idea what is wrong with this thing? I can still play the  
> internal RAM sounds, no problem. But this is the tip of the iceberg  
> for this machines capabilities, in theory. Should shoot this thing  
> and put it out of its misery? Or should I sell it for a measly $100  
> and move on? Or is there some simple solution I am not seeing? Any  
> help is appreciated. Thanks! :-)