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« on: July 26, 2009, 11:55:28 AM »
Guys- I have tried everything to get this fucker to work. I need advice. So it mounts, I can rename it, disk info says 100 banks 99.1% free etc, BUT I cannot write software or even an empty bank to it. It either says 'no banks exist' or scsi hardware error depending on the configuration I have it in with jumpers and so forth.
EIII sees it, but I can't do anything with it. Pissed off and frustrated.
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« Reply #1 on: July 26, 2009, 01:04:51 PM »
Isn't there a locking on the cartridge (on the side) avoiding to write ?
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« Reply #2 on: July 26, 2009, 05:24:19 PM »
I don't think so. I can rename it though. It formats but never finishes verifying.  Huh
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« Reply #3 on: July 26, 2009, 08:27:14 PM »
Quote from: midipuppies on July 26, 2009, 05:24:19 PM
I don't think so. I can rename it though. It formats but never finishes verifying.  Huh

it takes 2.5 hrs to reformat 1 gb and verify...

did you wait that long?  i'm not exaggerating on that amount of time either.
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« Reply #4 on: July 27, 2009, 12:22:35 AM »
One thing : once you have formated, save IMMEDIATELY a blank banck onto the cartridge. DON'T TRY TO UNDERSTAND, DON'T EVEN THINK, JUST DO IT !!!  Grin
If you can't save, take the whole shit and format it onto a Mac, in classic mode (Maybbe OS9 will work but I usuall do it on OS 8.6.1 or OS 7.5.2.

After then, try to save some datas on the cartridge. Can you ? If you can, there is a provblem with the E-Mu, if you can't, then, the cartridge or the whole shit is dead. Its not because its brand new that it should work, you know....
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« Reply #5 on: July 27, 2009, 12:44:23 AM »
I forgot : after then, if you can't use it on a computer, if it doesn't work, try to find a cartridge adapter unit, plugable on a computer (you know, that kind of box with multi format cartridges) and use the cartridge on it, to see if it works.
If it does, then use only the SCSI to IDE unit with a IDE hard disk, see if it works.

If it does, try to find another cartridge and test it on the computer, with you adapter, etc... In other words, make a crossmatch test, you will find the faulty unit. You can as well use an IDE disk on the EII instead of the cartridge, only to test if iteh converter with the EIII works, can't you ?
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« Reply #6 on: July 28, 2009, 04:26:10 AM »
Looks like the drive will not work.I a going to try another brand of card. Any suggestions?
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« Reply #7 on: July 28, 2009, 10:45:28 AM »
You write :

Looks like the drive will not work.I a going to try another brand of card. Any suggestions?

You tell that the drive will not work and you are going to change the brand of card.
Can you have a WORKING drive ? Or it is NOT WORKING, EVEN IF YOU CHANGE THE DRIVE ?

Fuck, this pisses me offf.... I can't believe it !

If the drive is NORMALLY WORKIN and it DOES NOT with the SCSI <>IDE converter, it means that the SCSI <>IDE converter is faulty, not yet the memory card !!!!

SO, what interrest to find a new card ?

In this case, find aother interface and have the drive working !!!!!!

80% if the service repair job is just a matter logic sense !!!!
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« Reply #8 on: July 28, 2009, 12:20:52 PM »
Got it. Replaced the sandisk card with a 1GB Lexar and away we go! Reads/writes no problems at all now.
BTW Doc.c, if the SCSI IDE bridge was shot, I would not have been able to rename the drive and have it retain it's name.
Thanks for the comments though.
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« Reply #9 on: July 28, 2009, 01:15:46 PM »
I would not have been able to rename the drive and have it retain it's name.

Sorry, but this is not sure ! And even more, you wrote :
"Looks like the drive will not work."

Did you mean the drive or the card ?

So, everything is working , uh ?

GREAT !!!!!!
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« Reply #10 on: July 28, 2009, 08:03:31 PM »
Thanks man! Grin
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« Reply #11 on: August 10, 2009, 03:37:53 PM »
Please, what is the EXACT reference of the CP card adapter ?

TIA


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Thanks anyway
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