emusonacid! legacy

I was in the midst of a sampling session in which i was taking my favorite samples off of various sample CD's and organizing them into banks.
I was using a seagate 40 gig int. IDE harddrive and I had no problems whatsoever. I had about 500 megs or so of banks & stuff saved and prior to yesterday I had NO ISSUES at all. But then in the middle of trying to save one of my new banks, the god damn thing just froze up. I initially let it sit for a while but after coming back in an hour it still was stuck. So i brushed it off and figured it was an anomaly...I return back to resume the archiving process when BAMN it happens again. this time just by the mere action of scrolling the cursor over the ide-hd icon made it freeze. and this happened multiple times. so once again, i turned off the e-mu and tried stuff like unplugging the scsi-cdrom but to no avail. now I boot up and it recognizes the drive there in the disk menu, BUT, if i try to do *ANYTHING* with the ide drive i get a blank white screen. ouch!!

I spent about 2 weeks customizing a bad ass archive with hot samples of my friends juno-106, korg z1, & my roland fantom only to have it all gone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

tried to format and start over from scratch but i keep getting the blank screen of death...... .......needless to say this is hella frustrating.

i'm using an e-mu E6400 ultra w/ eos 4.70 & a seagate 40 gig IDE that some fellows on here recommended.

anyone who has any insight into the problem, let me know.

Is it possible for your to borrow another known to be working SCSI cable to test? This may sound too unlikely but i have been caught in the past, where systems just suddenly failed to work, after hours of trouble shooting and as the last resort i decided to try a spare cable i had lying around. Bingo.

Perhaps the bank on the disk may have been corrupted ? scratches on the disk perhaps?

Another scsi cable? i thought that would be totally unrelated but yeah come to think of it, i have heard of situations where random factors can mess things up.. . i'll give that a shot then if it's still acting up i'm just going to try a new hard drive..

i'm still covered under warranty so worst case i'll just get the thing serviced if a 2nd harddrive fails in this baby...

thanks