emusonacid!

Hi

We have an E-synth with EOS3 installed.

During boot it finds the floppy drive and than goes "Mounting drive: 0".

Thats all... What is he trying to say ? It does`nt have HD installed, but we have other EOS machines that boot without harddrive..

I disconnected the floppy drive, and it did boot, very slowly. It displayed : Mounting drive : 0, Mounting drive : 1, Mounting drive : 3 ... for like 10 minutes.

BTW, the floppy drive is not faulty (it`s probably not the problem).

check the ID - disconect all - otherwise re install your EOS

Thanks MFPhouse

What do you mean by "check the ID - disconect all" ?

OK, I think I understand what you say.

There are no drives connected inside or outside, besides the floppy drive, so there`s nothing else to disconnect or to check their SCSI id`s.

I allready reinstalled the OS.

Is the floppy a SCSI device ? can I change its ID ? How ?

every EOS Sampler- Synt has an ID . If you want to connect them, they may not have the same number, ( like SCSI). You can change the ID , look in your manual .

The Floppy is not a SCSI device .

You can?t change the Floppy ID ( I think? )Default Drive 9.

During Start up it?s better without a Floppy Disk insert .( exept EOS installing )
Terminate all SCSI Bus. Default none after reinstall.

But last at not Least , it?s sounds like your Floppy is out of Order.
If you don?t need the Floppy Drive , just disconnect it.

hope the best for you.

Hi,

do you by any chance have a SCSI cable connected to the machine, but nothing on the other side of that cable?

If so, remove the cable and see if this helps.


Ronald

Thanks,

No there`s nothing connected. I`ll try to connect an external cd rom. Maybe it needs some termination.

Have you set termination on the sampler to on or off? Can't recall if there's an auto setting or not, bu tif there is such use that.

A SCSI chain needs termination on both ends, the adapter in your pc is aslo one.

SCSI is no black magic, it just needs all variables to be set right or you will face all kind of strange problems.

Cheers
Ronald

Hi Ronald

That specific e-synth is not connected to a pc or anything (not inside nor outside). Is there some on\off termination switch, cause I did`nt notice that one (do you remember where it is ?).


Thanks :)

Hi Vertigo,

iI'm running EOS 4.7 on my E6400Ultra, but I expect that it will kinda similar on your machine.

Try this: Master, F3(Setup), F4(SCSI), F2(SCSI Terminiation)
You can set this to on / off by pressing the inc or dec to change the values.

I always have it set to on.


I hope this helps
cheers
Ronald

It works !!! thanks :)

glad to be of help