Scsi and the Ensoniq EPS - Page 2

fengland · 20th April 2011

thanks, I'll look into that. did you use shottky diodes? I don't have any - guess I could order some or just try silicon diodes or wire and make sure I don't connect anything else. guess it's worth playing around with some more. Mine just says 'scsi device unconnected' - is that likely to be a termination problem?
I have a couple syquest drives I tried but they always just spit out the disk right away - I don't know if there's something wrong with them or if I'm not using them right.

HaterNob · 20th April 2011

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Originally Posted by fengland

thanks, I'll look into that. did you use shottky diodes? I don't have any - guess I could order some or just try silicon diodes or wire and make sure I don't connect anything else. guess it's worth playing around with some more. Mine just says 'scsi device unconnected' - is that likely to be a termination problem?
I have a couple syquest drives I tried but they always just spit out the disk right away - I don't know if there's something wrong with them or if I'm not using them right.

I just used a wire. I haven't got any other SCSI drives and couldn't be bothered with ordering diodes. I'm sure they'd be easy and cheap to pick up though and it'd no doubt be the safer option.

Before I'd done the mod I seem to remember my EPS16+ would search for the drive, not find it, and then continue to boot.

I'm under the impression that the termination issue with the 16+ was specific to Iomega Zip drives.

wakestyle · 27th April 2011

so does the EPS have any stock sound's or you must load from disk/scsi??

thx

fengland · 27th April 2011

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Originally Posted by wakestyle

so does the EPS have any stock sound's or you must load from disk/scsi??

thx

no, it doesn't have any built in sounds, you have to load or sample your own in for it to make any noise.

Karloff70 · 27th April 2011

Why not forget about all that SCSI madness and just put one of these in it?

Lotharek`s Lair

Says EPS classic is supported....then you're on SD cards......

fengland · 27th April 2011

not a bad idea - you're still stuck with floppy img sized files, one downside. I'm fine with floppies though, wouldn't really want to pay for that. maybe some day.

Karloff70 · 27th April 2011

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Originally Posted by fengland

not a bad idea - you're still stuck with floppy img sized files, one downside. I'm fine with floppies though, wouldn't really want to pay for that. maybe some day.

Yes, but they'd load in a snip, not going tok tok tok for hours.....

peterpiper0815 · 28th April 2011

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Originally Posted by Karloff70

Yes, but they'd load in a snip, not going tok tok tok for hours.....

No the emulator doesn't speed up the loading and saving time. It even emulate that tok tok sound (but AFAIK you can set it OFF)

peace

Karloff70 · 28th April 2011

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Originally Posted by peterpiper0815

No the emulator doesn't speed up the loading and saving time. It even emulate that tok tok sound (but AFAIK you can set it OFF)

peace

It does definitely speed up loading time when shown in a Korg DSS-1 video. The guy even makes a point of it.

syntaur · 20th August 2011

Just to clear up some mis-information earlier in this thread, the EPS ("Classic") does NOT work with a Zip drive (or a CD-ROM drive, for that matter). The SCSI implementation is very rudimentary, and it's pretty difficult to find compatible drives for the EPS.

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fengland Gear addict Joined: Nov 2010 Location: Vermont Posts: 326	thanks, I'll look into that. did you use shottky diodes? I don't have any - guess I could order some or just try silicon diodes or wire and make sure I don't connect anything else. guess it's worth playing around with some more. Mine just says 'scsi device unconnected' - is that likely to be a termination problem? I have a couple syquest drives I tried but they always just spit out the disk right away - I don't know if there's something wrong with them or if I'm not using them right. __________________ http://soundcloud.com/fengland

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wakestyle Lives for gear Joined: Dec 2007 Posts: 1,795	so does the EPS have any stock sound's or you must load from disk/scsi?? thx __________________ It could be different on a mac...

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Karloff70 Lives for gear Joined: Oct 2006 Location: london Posts: 6,748	Why not forget about all that SCSI madness and just put one of these in it? Lotharek`s Lair Says EPS classic is supported....then you're on SD cards...... __________________ what is a small difference? genetically there's only a small difference between a human and a banana. - golden beers

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syntaur Gear interested Joined: Aug 2011 Posts: 4	Just to clear up some mis-information earlier in this thread, the EPS ("Classic") does NOT work with a Zip drive (or a CD-ROM drive, for that matter). The SCSI implementation is very rudimentary, and it's pretty difficult to find compatible drives for the EPS.