emusonacid!

Hi there! I just got my self an external drive. I hooked it up to the emu (e-synth rack classic, with eos 4.62 that is), and booted them. The thing is that the emu only recognize one of the drives at the same time. No matter which order I boot them, no matter the scsi id, no matter how many time I press mount harddrive. Not quite sure what is going on here. The external drive is emu formated, and I have no problems writing on it, it is just the fact that the emu won't see them both at the same time.

Termination?

Tried both on and off. No difference. The drive connects well to my computer, without any fiddeling around.

Are you sure the internal is correctly terminated?

Not implying that it wont be, just thinking of anything that could possibly be wrong.

And is the drive plain old standard scsi - what is the drive?

When you say only one is visible do you mean that when you have the external on the internal disappears or does sometimes the internal appear but not the external when both are powered up?

Again these questions aren't necessarily going anywhere just trying to get a more complete picture.

I'm going to test it some more, but I don't have my e-synth within reach just now. It is a simple, old plain standard scsi drive. It is a seagate with 2.1gb, the external one that is. The internal I can't remember the brand of, but it is 4.2gb. No mather what I do, I can only get one of the drives in the menu screen, might have something with who I boot first, but mounting drives should solve that, but it does not.

My internal harddrive shows up as D0 (the floppy as D8, the e-synth rom as D9), and when I occasionally see the external harddrive it also shows up as D0. Is there something I've been missing here? And I have tried different scsi-id's.

If it shows up as D0, then its scsi ID is 0.
If you think you've been trying different scsi IDs, check again... sometimes there is more than one place to change it. Especially if you are using an adapter, such as a 68->50 pin adapter or an 80 pin SCA->50 pin adapter. Usually these have their own jumpers for setting SCSI ID.

But, that is the problem... both are set to SCSI ID 0. You could try changing the internal ID if the external one is not cooperating...

Ah, i thought it was something like that. I'm gonna check it out now. Oh, and if I do not figure it out my self, how do I change the id on the internal drive?

drive ids are usually changed via jumpers.

Get the model number off the drive and search for it in google and you should get details for jumper settings if they aren't already printed on the drive. In fact the switch on an external usually just plumbs into these jumpers on the drive inside the casing. Your external may have had the contents swapped at some point and the switch either wouldn't fit the new drive or was incorrectly/not fitted. Subsequently you may be able to adjust your external drive id either by fixing the switch or fitting jumpers to the drive within.

Hope that helps...

Problem solved, the external harddrive was missing a jumper.