emusonacid!

Posted recently on the knowledge board about possible IDE internal drive and SCSI card options for OSX, as I was dusting down my trusty Ultra.

Anyway I haven't used the sampler for a while and last night I decided to wired it all into my Soundcraft Ghost and powered it up.

To my surprise it didn't boot, so I inserted the floppy and it asked if I wanted to update the flash to 4.10 so I hit enter and thought i would update no problems. Next thing I know I got an disc error and the EMU asks If I want to boot from Flash so I hit enter and it sticks on checking Flash, then eventually it asks if I want to update from floppy again. While this is going on I'm thinking the floppy is making a hell of a noise so I take the disc out and pull the metal back and it looks like the drive has left a mark on the disc. Anyway after ten minutes or so of trying to get it to update, the drive won't even read the disk.

so my questions. Is the Flash Memory shot or will it be able to be updated, currently the screen sticks with this 'E-mu boot v0.8 Ultra Checking Flash' then every now and then it says ' Floppy Disk Found' and then goes back to 'Checking Flash.

Earlier today I managed to get the EOS updates onto floppies but the EMU won't read them and I have noticed it seems to be scratching them also ...

Can I put a regular floppy drive out of a old pc in the Ultra ? Or is there another way to update the flash ? I have an external Zip 100, is that any use ?

This is doing my head in now.....

Any help would be great,

Cheers

Liam.

The floppy in the ultra is a regular pc floppy drive, so you can safely try one out of an old pc. I don't know if 4.20 supports it, but I think you can update over Midi using E-Loader.

Stu, thanks for the reply!

just found the mac version of the E-loader software on EMU's wesbite (they did a good job of hiding it). Luckily I have a mac downstairs with OS 9 on it so will see how I get on...

Cheers

Liam

update: managed to set E-Loader up on an old imac downstairs but it fails to find the EMU and the only EOS I can find to update thats a .dli file is the 4.70 which I would need to use the flash prep file , so I don't think it will work. Fact is with the Ultra not booting just staying on ' checking Flash etc ' think i need to stick a different floppy drive in, gonna try cleaning it first before I go down that route...

managed to get hold of a pc floppy drive but can't seem to get it to work inside the EMU, made some disks up but no cigar. The original EMU floppy drive will read the flash prep disc but when I try to update the flash I get a disc read error !!

arghh this is killing me now, do I have to wire the pc floppy in different or something ?

Update- managed to get a box of new Sony floppy discs and the EMU read them, luckily I made two copied of each disc I needed. The first flash prep disc gave a read error message and I thought ' ohh shit here we go again'. Anyway tried the second and it burnt to flash no problems. Updated to 4.7 now. Also fitted a Seagate Barracuda internal drive and that works fine, now I just gotta figure out the best way to transfer a load of libraries over.