emusonacid!

Hi.
I have an internal cd/dvd rom drive on my windows PC and I am to buy a SCSI PCI card to fit in my PC.
I also have an external ZIP drive which I use on my E4X.

The question is: Can I copy .eos files from my windows internal CD/DVD rom player to my ZIP drive through the SCSI PCI card?
Will it work?

I hope I don't have to use a translator for this.


Thanks.

If your CD-ROM drive is not connected to the SCSI-bus then you cannot copy files to the SCSI ZIP-drive.
Copying would only be possible with the E4X and CDs that use a file-system that is supported by your EOS version.
Windows cannot handle the EMU file-system.

memorycleaner wrote:
The question is: Can I copy .eos files from my windows internal CD/DVD rom player to my ZIP drive through the SCSI PCI card?
Will it work?
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To expand on mosrobs answer

Windows will not directly read a CD-ROM formatted in EOS, but some third party software can read and import Presets.

Windows will read EOS files from your CD-ROM if the disc is formatted in FAT, and allow you to copy and paste these EOS files onto the zip drive via the SCSI card so long as the the zip disc is also formatted in FAT.

Windows will not open EOS files directly but copying is not a problem its the disc format not the file type that confuses windows.

So forget trying to copy files from a native Emu disc with only windows, but you can copy Emu EOS files backed up onto a windows formatted CD-ROM. You can also copy EOS Presets and Banks that you may want to import from your sampler to the PC via the ZIP drive.
Just remember that your sampler needs to be running EOS4.7 in order to see the fat formatted ZIP

You can also copy a native format EOS CD-ROM to an empty CDR using normal CD writting software such as Nero, but this will only make a complete backup of the disc.

So if your sampler is able to run EOS4.7 you can do transfers via SCSI using a ZIP disc formatted in FAT.

It's not a simple yes or no so I hope this clears things up and not confusses matters further.