emusonacid! legacy

I've just grabbed the adtron va BIN, since you advertised it here and forced my hand. That cost me $5.01.

I'll be seeing how well that works with E64 and a K2500RS, but even if it doesn't, I'll sell it to friends who deal with older SCSI-based computers and get one of the scsiforsamplers ones.

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Damn, you should have bought the Microtech then I could have saved you money instead.

Tip for anyone else - hold out for a good price if you're not in a hurry they've been going for as little as $15 for 3.

Came out to be about the same as the microtech with shipping to where I am (which was the dominant cost). I know thet adtron works with various older bits of SCSI kit, so I have a backup use for it even if the samplers don't like it.

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Yeah shipping is mad. The adtron seller quoted me $85 to the UK but others were as low as $17 for the same journey.

I got quoted $50, but I'm hoping he'll agree to ship just the bare drive, then I'll put it in a small enclosure I have here alongside a SCSI zip drive.

When you say 'others', I presume you mean microtech and similar ones, rather than the adtrons?

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Good point to reiterate, overseas buyers get that drive stripped down. If the shipping is your greatest cost then ask the seller to drop all the heavy casing / psu etc.

Then a good shipping price to the UK (for a bare drive or one of those external microtechs without the wall wart power supply) from the US is $17 dollars, even less for Australia by the looks of it.

All told you should be able to get a drive for your emu for under $30, even over here. Don't forget customs and excise as well (all the more reason to get those costs down!).

Packrat: Yes "others" meant all sorts, all stripped to the bare drive where possible.

so has any successfully worked this out, im using a e4xt classic, i have a pcd-47b waiting here for transplanting, i have just successfully pimped the mpc 2kXL, got a spare unit kicking around that i;'d love to either put into the e4xt or the s3200xl

You mean you've got the drive and you're waiting for someone else to be the guinea pig? How selfish are you

Mine was paid for monday and despatched from continental Europe so I'm hopeful for delivery in the next couple of days. So you can wait til then or be the first

To avoid insult I'm most definitely joking where highlighted and I'm more than happy to be the guinea pig - I think the chances of success are very very high.

I just got a Microtech PC card / Smart media / CF drive off ebay, and replaced the floppy drive with it. Had to build a custom power cable, and the internal SCSI not being keyed took a bit of figuring out.

I have a classic e6400 with EOS 3.0b. All 3 card slots show up with their own ID. I only have a CF card, but it's worked great so far.

Booting up is a bit slow, but once it's up, loading and saving is reasonable.

Beaten to it...

There you go guys it's official...

Thanks audioel

apparently you can disable the pcmcia slot on a 47b - perhaps that might shorten boot times... Maybe media present might help too?

Mines in and running. 4.7 will boot without a floppy but things become dreadfully slow when booting and entering the disk/browse menu. Easy enough to rotate the floppy to the back and all cables seem to stretch in my e5000. Booting seems normal on mine, no noticeable delay. Removing the black option jumper seems to lose a drive and removing all the id jumpers drops another (presumably due to id conflict) so you could try that to speed booting if yours is slow. Although I've hardly used it disk usage times seem slow compared to disks. I'll try and do some comparisons at some point - when I've got my mo and DVD ram set up probably. I suspect an MO solution might still be the best internal removable option.

Just a report on that Adtron. I eventually ended up calling the folks in the US to see if they'd shell it out of the enclosure and just send the drive. No dice, it has an all-in-one face plate, and the whole enclosure was actually an Adtron product.

Turned up yesterday, wildly overpacked with a couple of cubic feet of packing peanuts (sigh). I contacted Adtron and was told that it was probably a 240/110 power supply, but that I should just plug it in and see if it blew up. (!) Fortunately it didn't, and my E64 was perfectly happy with the external SDDS Adtron thigny with a 512Mb CF card in a generic pcmcia adaptor.

Even better, the case doesn' t have a fan in it, so it's silent.

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After some experimentation I think MO is more useful for me. Although not silent in operation it's quieter than the emu fan when not reading/writing (and of course once you've done disk ops you can eject for silence). I can pick up 640mb (perfect size for a couple of projects and then to archive to cd) disks for 2.50 ukp and they have a lifetime guarantee. Plus they seem around 3 times as fast and the drive was cheaper in the first place. Look out for my card reader on ebay....

for me, the ability to toss the CF card in a reader in any machine and get the raw 512Mb image off it, then hopefully bounce that onto a CD is very valuable. This isn't nearly as easy with other SCSI-only media.

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