emusonacid!

I feel a little dumb asking this,
but it's urgent.
How do I update the EOS on my e6400 classic?
I don't have an original update floppy.
Thanks.

You can download more recent versions of the EOS either from E-mu's web site (under support, you have to look at the bottom to find the "legacy hardware support" link), or from the file area on this board (if you start from the root on this URL, there's a link to the file section there). The file should have a name like 462prep.zip or something.

Next, unzip the compressed file, and you'll get two files: one for the EOS disc, and one for the FLASHPrep disc. Then, if I remember correctly, you have to format two floppy discs on the E-mu, put them (one at a time) in your computer floppy drive, and run the program (one program, one disc... run both). This should create an EOS floppy and a FlashPrep floppy. Then take the floppy and restart the sampler with the diskette in the drive. Use the FlashPrep disc first. It SHOULD start the automatic update. I think FlashPrep prompts you when it's finished to insert the EOS update disc. Then at the end, you reset the EEPROM... I think the install process actually prompts you for this.

I hope this works for you. It might ask to reformat the floppy in the PC before it will let you continue to run one of the program files... just let it do the format. I seem to remember it did that to me... and everything worked out fine in the end (well, I was upgrading an E6400 Ultra from 4.1 to 4.62, but it was a while ago and my memory is sometimes faulty... vast quantities of useless data stored inside, just can't always access it accurately)


Alternately, can anybody out there back me up on this?

ugh.
this isnt working.
I am doing exactly as you say,
when I run either program it waits a while after I press the drive letter and then flashes something.
Then I put it in the sampler and it just boots up normally.

Sorry, that's the way I remember it... I might have been wrong, but it's the best I could come up with. If I find out anything else in the next few days I'll post it (unless someone else beats me to it).

i`ve heard that there may be more success using a computer running windows 98se for this.download the flashprep and eos update onto the hard drive,format a floppy in the emu and then run the program on the computer with a formatted floppy in the drive.you may have to unzip the eos file first if it is compressed. traxzone

Also, try running the executables from a directory with an older style dos short name rather than, say, your desktop. Somewhere like "c:\temp". From memory, the disk image applications do not like being run from within long directory paths. I've had success creating disk images on WinXP by doing this.

Cheers,
Adam-V

I just managed to update my e6400 Classic (64 channel, 128MB RAM) from 4.10a to 4.62 with the help of a Dell laptop running XP Professional like this:

I downloaded the relevant files from emu.com. The relevant files will have the names C_FLASHP and EOS462 - they are executables. Now, for a long time I messed around with all the advice I found here, and it swallowed hours with no success.

This is what worked: I connected an old USB floppy drive to that very new Dell laptop running XP - the drive is luckily supported in the XP software without having to install drivers. Then I inserted a single HD diskette - format doesn't matter.

Then I simply double clicked the Prep Flash file. A DOS window opens, and after about ten seconds dialogue comes onscreen, asking you to name the drive onto which you want to put your file. Hit the A-key, and the process is then automatic.

When the DOS window closes, your diskette is ready.

Repeat the process for the 4.62 file.

Then put in the Flash prep one into your sampler, and turn it on. It will ask to update the Flash, give it an Enter.

After this is over, eject that diskette and insert the 4.62 diskette. Give it an Enter, when it asks.

Whole process took about ten minutes once I stopped spending hours following advice that probably used to work, ie on older computers.

Go for it!

exdc

Btw, after thorough research I can guarantee that 4.62 is the final (known) EOS version for non-ultracized E-mu samplers.

exdc

That is correct. 4.62 is the highest you can go with non ultracized EMUs. There is a thread on here that explains that already.