emusonacid!

I am still thinking about getting a rack to add to my E-synth. If I load a sound onto the rack can I read it with the E-synth? I was thinking of hooking up the 2 machines with a scsi cable...

In a word, NO

SCSI was designed to have one controller (sampler or computer) and then up to 8 slave devices(drives).
Connecting both machines along the same SCSI buss will only give you problems or possibly even damage the Emus.
If you want the same sounds in both, then load the same sounds into both using some sort of removable drive(like a Zip) and link the machines via MIDI

You can't read another E-mu sampler's memory, but you can have multiple E-mu samplers on a SCSI bus - see p. 403 of the EOS 4.0 manual. Note that you have to set up one machine as the Master (for writing data) and turn off the undo function on the second machine.

If any issues occure with two SCSI-Master on the bus, just set the SCSI-ID of the other sampler in MASTER -> SETUP -> SCSI -> Avoid Host on... and/or Foreign sampler SCSI ID in the Import Options in both devices.
After writing to a HD, it might be necessary to let the other sampler re-mount the HDs.

Ommatidium wrote:You can't read another E-mu sampler's memory, but you can have multiple E-mu samplers on a SCSI bus - see p. 403 of the EOS 4.0 manual. Note that you have to set up one machine as the Master (for writing data) and turn off the undo function on the second machine.

page 403 of the EOS 4.0 manual isn't clear about what you can to after chaining two EMUs.

Can you please clarify:

a) can I connect two samplers as master/slave without an intervening third device in the chain?

b) does that entail risks?

c) will the Master sampler be able of READYING the slave's disk? (Disk, not RAM. Of course ram won't be readable through scsi)

I need to transfer data from my old E4XT (non ultra eos 3.0b) to the new E5000 (ultra, eos 4.7).

thx