emusonacid!

I've heard that accessing the IDE hard drive in an Emu from a computer via SCSI (you with me ) is a bad bad thing as both computer and Emu devices will try and write to the same area of the drive with different data leading to data corruption.

Is this because the EMU only reads the hard drive's MFT (Master File Table) once so it doesn't know if there have been any file updates bar the ones that it makes?

Would it therefore be possible to write a large piece of data to the Emu's HD from the computer, turn the EMU off, then back on again and have it not corrupt anything because it would read the new MFT?

I was just wondering about this the other day, so if anyone has tried it then please let me know.

As far as I'm aware, a computer can't access an IDE drive inside an EMU sampler, as it doesn't form part of the SCSI chain. An internal SCSI drive is a different matter though.

Hmmm...So its accessing a SCSI drive connected to an Emu that is a problem with a computer?

I'll have to dig out the manual

That's right, it's just SCSI drives (internal or external) that are a problem, but only if the SCSI drive is FAT formatted. If it's formatted in Emu format, the computer will ignore it.

ok- so I've got a situation where I've got an emu-formatted drive that my computer is currently ignoring- how can I re-format it so I can do a bulk drop of wav files to it? I've got XP- and I can't see anywhere where it will let me format the drive from windows...

Paul

It maybe that I'm wrong now, but is it not so that the computer never can read a emu-formatted harddrive? And vica verca. If you want to transfer wav samples to your emu you need to connect the emu to the computer with an scsi-card, and then use a program like recycle to recieve/transfer the samples. Your will not be able to just browse your emu-disk like any other computer harddrive. But then, maybe I've just misunderstood.

pauldirks wrote:ok- so I've got a situation where I've got an emu-formatted drive that my computer is currently ignoring- how can I re-format it so I can do a bulk drop of wav files to it? I've got XP- and I can't see anywhere where it will let me format the drive from windows...

Paul

Yep...Like Ole said...Your XP machine is 'ignoring' the drive because it doesn't recognise the format of it.

If you are running EOS 4.71, I'm pretty sure you can just reformat the drive in FAT format from the Emu.

You'll need this OS anyway in order to read FAT disks.