emusonacid! legacy

I was wondering what CD-Rom drives are compatible with the E-5000 Ultra, and where I might find one?

There is a list on the emu legacy support pages somewhere....www.emu.com

I use an apple Cd300e - works great.

this is on ebay

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/SAMPLER-CD-ROM-DR ... 240%3A1318

wonder if it would be allright for my E4XT ultra?

when you use a cd rom drive providing you have eos 4.7 can you just upload wav files like it were from a floppy disk?

jamie8286 wrote:this is on ebay

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/SAMPLER-CD-ROM-DR ... 240%3A1318

wonder if it would be allright for my E4XT ultra?

Yes it will work, but you will need the correct scsi lead to connect it to your e-mu. It does seem a bit overkill tho - I got a scsi cd-writer a few months back for £9 delivered. The multi-disc changer is unnecessary imho as it is easier and quicker to copy your sample cds to the harddisk and access them from there.

jamie8286 wrote:
when you use a cd rom drive providing you have eos 4.7 can you just upload wav files like it were from a floppy disk?

It can be done but not without a lot of effort. EOS cannot read the ISO filesystem used on cds, so you would have to find a way to burn the cd in either FAT or EOS format. To do this requires ghosting a partition a writing it the cd in raw format. I've done it in the past but it was a lot of bother. Better solutions would be to go down the removable drive route from the other thread, or get yourself a mc-disk scsi cf card reader, which is what I have done.

Another solution is a scsi drive that supports removeable media, such as a scsi zip drive or an MO drive. You can connect this to both your pc and your sampler and as long as you eject it between reads/writes then you should be ok.

I have recently got myself a spare E5000, and am going to experiment with an internal ATAPI zip drive and a scsi-ide convertor when I get time - I'll let you know how I get on.

cool thanks for the reply yes i think i would prefare the removable drive option i wasnt that eager to get on with the mod before because i thought i had a 20g internal drive but i checked it last night and its only a 3.2g was abit p**sed of to be fair because it said on the ebay listing it had a 20g hard drive but that was months ago so no come back for it. should have checked.

I really want to get using the emu more but its getting neglected due to the file transfer problem.

Thank you for the replies! I am so happy that this is an active board. I'd like to buy more of the old EMU samplers too. I am curious about the software sampler. It seems laptops are the new samplers?