emusonacid! legacy

OK, I recently purchased an internal 18gb SCSI hard drive. I had a pretty painless installation. Format first time around didn't seem to be any problem at all.

So after being uber excited about this new storage space, I started backing up old files & projects to it. At this point I must have saved maybe 100-150mb of files maximum. When running a query on the disk, it was saying that 2GB were used already! This was totally unacceptable as I have at least 8-10 gigs worth of stuff that needs to be backed up.
So I figured maybe reformatting the drive and starting from scratch would help me take it step by step to see what was happening. Well after erasing all files & attempting a clean re-format, I then experienced a "Media Error" message. So now every time I try to format, I get this message (media error). I can't save to the drive, it has a sluggish time mounting, its just all wrong at this point. if anyone has run into this problem and can be of any help, it would be much appreciated. I may even be able to return the favour somehow.


thanks!

hello!

basically the file system/disk managment for all emu samplers will divide the drive into 1024 clusters.

the cluster size is dependant on the drive size!

drive size 1 gb->cluster size 1mb
2gb->2mb
4gb->4mb
7gb->4mb
8gb->8mb
15gb->16mb

so, if you save a bank with 1MB on your 18GB HD, the drive information will report 16MB!!!!!!

the solution is to MERGE banks together in order to maximize bank size/cluster size efficiency!
16MB banks = 16MB were need on your 18GB HD
16,1MB banks = 32MB were need on your 18GB HD

Hope that helps for your first problem

greetings from germany

chrstian

Cheers Christian! That is very useful info, I will have to master a system I suppose.
Problem now is I can't get get the disk to format as it appears corrupted. The helpful folks that sold me the drive are going to send a replacement. Hopefully then I shouldn't run into the same problem.