emusonacid! legacy

I have been unable to upgrade the EOS in my E5000 Ultra - currently running 4.02. Am relatively new user, but have upgraded an eSynth previously to 4.62 w/o problem.

First tried formatting the disk w/ the E5k then running the .exe on the laptop, as I did before with the eSynth. Determined that the diskette drive was flaky, so replaced with the one from my ESI.

Better result: the .exe didn't die with write failure @ cylinder 72 as happened w/ original floppy drive. However, the Ultra won't show the flash write prompt on power-up. Just loads EOS and ignores the update.

Tested with SysCpy of 4.02 to diskette to see if it would prompt with that in the drive @ power-up, and it did. Compared the first sector of the two disk images to look for differences, and it seems like the .exe is somehow choking on writing to the first sector, as there are marked differences there. So I'm searching for a simple image file, sans the .exe. Anyone have such a thing? I'd like to upgrade to 4.6x. Don't really care about 4.7 at this time.

Also the file on EMU's site for EOS 4.7 is a .dli, NOT a .exe. WTF?

TIA,

John

When updating from EOS pre 4.10 you need to DL the E 4 Ultra Flash Prep, this Flash Prep floppy you must insert first, after Samplers Flash is prepared to read compressed files the sampler will then prompt you to insert EOS floppy. E 4 Ultra Flash Prep is on E-Mu site below the EOS 4.70 which btw. is a zip that contains the EOS470.EXE (just checked).

Rascal Revenge wrote:When updating from EOS pre 4.10 you need to DL the E 4 Ultra Flash Prep, this Flash Prep floppy you must insert first, after Samplers Flash is prepared to read compressed files the sampler will then prompt you to insert EOS floppy. E 4 Ultra Flash Prep is on E-Mu site below the EOS 4.70 which btw. is a zip that contains the EOS470.EXE (just checked).

Thanks. Evidently there are two different versions of Flash Prep, one for Ultra machines and the other for the Classic models. I wasn't aware of that. Wish that there was a little bit of documentation out there. Have looked for tutorials and articles, but there are very few resources out there. I went ahead and DL'd a bunch of EOS versions and tried the other flash prep, and ... it worked! It seems that the EOS versions have a header that targets certain models only. Wish I had known that too.

Long story short: the machine is now updated to 4.61. I'm puzzled about the lack of a copy of 4.62 for the E5k Ultra, but for now, I'll settle for the way it is.

Great you got it working. EOS 4.62 Classic to my knowlegde is actually the equivalent to EOS Ultra 4.61, lacking only the functions the Classic cannot perform due to it's slower processor & CPU-Ram (for example the Beat-Munger, others I can't even recall ATM). Why was it called 4.62 instead of 4.61 Classic then I don't understand.