emusonacid! legacy

Hi All,
I have an E6400 ultra with a 20 gig Quantum fireball hard drive installed. I have owned this unit for 3 years and only just lately i have noticed that it has been crashing when i have been loading banks. But Today i turned it on and it will not load a single bank (disaster!!!!!!),,,,, however it will let me load individual samples into an empty bank.????

The only thing i have done recently that i can think of that might have set the sampler off course is to use links to stack presets but i can hardly imagine that would cause the problem.. The only other thing i can think it maybe is if i received a power spike or surge which may have affected the system???

By the way im running 4.01 as the operating system.

Any clues?

thanks

Still happening ?

'...i turned it on and it will not load a single bank (disaster!!!!!!)'

You mean it crashed not while loading a bank but it won't even accept a load ? If the latter then I guess something inside the (bank) filesystem has crashed (?), not good.

If somehow possible I would then move/save the sounds to another media, if you can manage to recover them somehow, re-format HD, if it seems to be OK after test for you reload them or buy a new HD. You may try to recover banks by loading the Presets and/or individual samples (worked for me often when it didn't want to load certain bank, I could also find out at what point it hanged, i.e. I could rebuild me a bank and save to a external media). If that all not helps well then I think say sayonara to your data.

You may update your EOS to 4.61 or 4.70beta, your problem sounds more like HD-defect to me, but maybe it'll help.

Although not useful in this case, it does highlight how important it is to have a backup strategy, so in the case where the HDD goes south, you don't lose years worth of hard work.

Hey thanks for your replies..
the hard drive seems to have days when its going to load and days when it freezers during loading banks.
I guess it must be the hard drive playing games.
At the moment im only backing up to 100 meg zip disks as i have not come across an external that will support 4.01..

Up until this point the sampler has been rock solid for a long long time and it is just disconcerting that it is experiencing some reliability issues now.