emusonacid!

so i got my card all setup. it shows up as "Adaptec AIC-7850 pci scsi controller" in my device manager in the scsi department.

also in the other devices area i shows " E-MU EMULATOR IV SCSI PROCESSOR DEVICE " .

All this is supossed to be correct from what i understand, but when i open soundforge it shows none of these. A tutorial from tweakheads shows the "emu IV" thing there but it is no where to be found in Sample Config on my pc.
In my e6400 under scsi set up I have.
SCSI ID:7 Avoid Host On ID: 7(MAC)
SCSI Termination:on Drive Saver:never
Disk Button Goes to:lastIs this wrong? Oh and What is ASPI?

your not alone. I tried to get SCSI working on my Win2000 box for the same reasons as you. I actually have software that can see the EIV via scsi but cant find my Midi device even though that device shows up as Midi interface. I got frustrated and finally just decided that I would rather create audio than tool around with computer issues.

Hope you get it working, I really think that SCSI requires persistence, and patience neither of which I have at the moment.

Your earlier post was spot on too. All of the doco on the web is sketchy at best.

good luck

Plug the card into a Mac, fire it up and it will see your EMU without any problem and no need install anything

drayon wrote:Plug the card into a Mac, fire it up and it will see your EMU without any problem and no need install anything

When you say "see your EMU" you mean in Peak or another sample transfer program, right?

I had to install drivers first, though in hindsight, I might not have actually needed to.

Oh, and it should be mentioned that I believe my 2906 was giving my mac kernal panics, though I have no firm proof of this.

motionpicture wrote:

drayon wrote:Plug the card into a Mac, fire it up and it will see your EMU without any problem and no need install anything

When you say "see your EMU" you mean in Peak or another sample transfer program, right?

If u go 'About this Mac' from the Apple Menu and click 'More Info' under hardware on the left select 'SCSI' on the right pane its possible your EMU will be listed.

Peak will see the EMU or u can go here :

http://airy.andre.online.fr/Mac/

dl

http://airy.andre.online.fr/Mac/SMDI.app.tgz

Enter the SCSI ID of the EMU into the text entry field in SMDI an press the 'Connect' button to establish a link with the EMU.

BTW, don't send a sample to ID 000 ok !! crash or lock up stylee!! Set the first sample ID to 1 before u hit connect so then u dont accidently send a sample to 000

I had to install drivers first, though in hindsight, I might not have actually needed to.

Nah if u had of looked in '/System/Library/Extensions' you would have seen 'Adaptec290X-2930.kext' supplied with Mac OS X. This is the driver for your card.

Oh, and it should be mentioned that I believe my 2906 was giving my mac kernal panics, though I have no firm proof of this.

hrm, possible yes, u may wanna look in the above directory an see if there is some other Adaptec kernel extension in there, maybe its causing greif. BTW i dont think that card supports some of the sleep modes on the PCI bus so if u have been letting your machine go to sleep then waking it up an you have been getting kernel panics then perhaps this maybe the first place to suspect.

U PC dude's (assuming Windows 2000/XP here) probably need to install ASPI (Adaptec SCSI Programming Interface) Its basically a layer of between the card and applications so they can access the card. If these boneheaded software developers had Windows 2000/XP compliant apps u wouldn't have go thru all this stress.

download

http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/suppor ... _471a2.exe

look for file 'aspiinst.exe' double click to run it and then double click 'reg_xp.exe'