Fairlight-CMI

Hello...

It's me again :-) 

Do any of you have a list or know where I can find a list of error
codes and 
their meaning?

I've been trying to load a couple sounds from a tape onto the hard
disk to use 
in a piece. 

It locates the voice, appears to be loading it to the hard disk and
then when it's 
finished, I get the following 

"Having some disk trouble. Error code 217"
when I go look at the directory to see if the voice did load, it's
not there.

What does this mean?

I just tried saving a couple voices to my own tape, it saves fine so
I'm not sure 
if the hard disk is too full, if the tape drive is going bad or what.
I cleaned the 
tape heads and still get the error.

Any thoughts?

Thanks...

Jerry

Hi Jerry
The file that is giving a 217 error message is corrupt. Over time tape and
8" disks becomes bad and files are unreadable. Get a external Hard Drive (no
bigger than 9 GB that's if your using OS 9.34. 4 GB if less than that) and
save your sounds on that. Any tapes you have back them up onto the HD. This
will keep your sounds for alot longer.
You will be unable to retrieve the corrupt file it is lost
forever........SORRY
Best regards
Colin
----- Original Message -----

From: "Jerry" <coasterdude02149@yahoo.com>
To: <Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2003 8:06 PM
Subject: [Fairlight-CMI] Error Codes


> Hello...
>
> It's me again :-)
>
> Do any of you have a list or know where I can find a list of error
> codes and
> their meaning?
>
> I've been trying to load a couple sounds from a tape onto the hard
> disk to use
> in a piece.
>
> It locates the voice, appears to be loading it to the hard disk and
> then when it's
> finished, I get the following
>
> "Having some disk trouble. Error code 217"
> when I go look at the directory to see if the voice did load, it's
> not there.
>
> What does this mean?
>
> I just tried saving a couple voices to my own tape, it saves fine so
> I'm not sure
> if the hard disk is too full, if the tape drive is going bad or what.
> I cleaned the
> tape heads and still get the error.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Thanks...
>
> Jerry
>
>
>
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Hi Colin,

Any suggestions to what type of HD is best? Will any SCSI drive work?

Well, I'm going to try a few more voices but according to your post then, ALL 
my 3 tapes from Fairlight are down the toilet. I've then only got the voices that 
are currently on the hard disk. I've not been able to get one off any of the 3 
tapes I got with my CMI. 

I know magnetic media is unreliable in the long term, just seems strange that 
all woudl fail at the same time. 

Well...looks like I jump off the deep end and start coming up with my own 
voices via sampling.  Is there a CD, I wonder, that has many if not all the 
original Series III or IIx voice library I could get? I'll have to do some web 
searching. 

Thanks Colin. This wasn't good news. 

Jerry

Hi Jerry
Try and find a Quantum  Hard Drive or a Western Digital. These are very good
drives. You can get them on EBay all the time for very little.
What OS are you running?
What library do you have on the HD? If there is anything interesting I feel
a possible trade coming on. I have all Fairlight's own libraries  II and
added sound to make up the IIx,  III and pre series II. Also some other
series II producers yet to be converted to series III, these are a small
part of my full collection. I have to stop there as if I told you what I do
have you would be taking train, planes and automobiles to get here.(ha ha)
Is any of your own samples going on to the tape streamer? Also try checking
that the tape streamer is connected right.
I have a optical drive on mine but these are unreliable. I have 2 optical
worm disks full of Han Zimmer's sounds which I can't get to. I did get allot
of his original samples from another source though.
I still have the tape streamer in it's box but no tapes Did you get any of
the sounds of the tapes to work? You could try formatting a tape again and
try a sample to see if it helped.
Let us know
Regards
Colin


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jerry" <coasterdude02149@yahoo.com>
To: <Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2003 11:13 PM
Subject: [Fairlight-CMI] Re: Error Codes


> Hi Colin,
>
> Any suggestions to what type of HD is best? Will any SCSI drive work?
>
> Well, I'm going to try a few more voices but according to your post then,
ALL
> my 3 tapes from Fairlight are down the toilet. I've then only got the
voices that
> are currently on the hard disk. I've not been able to get one off any of
the 3
> tapes I got with my CMI.
>
> I know magnetic media is unreliable in the long term, just seems strange
that
> all woudl fail at the same time.
>
> Well...looks like I jump off the deep end and start coming up with my own
> voices via sampling.  Is there a CD, I wonder, that has many if not all
the
> original Series III or IIx voice library I could get? I'll have to do some
web

> searching.
>
> Thanks Colin. This wasn't good news.
>
> Jerry
>
>
>
> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
> Fairlight-CMI-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com
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> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
>
>
>

Hi Colin,

Will search eBay for a hard drive! That doesn't sound like it'll be a
problem. 

I'm running OS 9,  REV 6.03B but there's also another version number
that 
shows mid boot. I'll take note and get back to you tomorrow when I
boot it up 
again.

I've got almost all of library 1 on the hard disk and some of library
2, I can e 
mail you the voice names  I do have if you like. I've deleted some
that I knew I 
wouldn't be using and I'm not sure what the previous owners removed.
I was 
smart enough when I first got this to write down the full directory
of each tape 
so I knew what voices I had and where. 

Sorry you can't get to your Hans Zimmer sounds...those would be a
goldmine! 
OH YEAH!

LOL! From the sounds of what you've got, I probably would be knocking
on 
your door tomorrow  <GG> I've not really done any sampling yet, only
tried it 
out with a couple sounds from my Yamaha DX7. I've been wanting to do
some 
sampling, just a matter of getting people round here to bugger off so
I've got 
the time to do it. I had planned to spend some time with a few power
tools and 
some broken glass (I do stained glass so I've got plenty of that on
hand) to 
see what I could do with mixing waveforms and such. 

I'll open the mainframe tomorrow and check to see if it's all
connected right. 

I'm afraid to format a tape to try again because I'll lose a lot of
sounds I want to 
use, likewise I'm now afraid to delete any sounds off the hard disk
because I'm 
almost positive I'll not be able to get them again off the tape. 

I'll back a sound up on the tape I recently purchased and try to get
it off the 
tape again. Will let you know how that goes. 

In closing I want to really thank you for starting this group. You
and Gerald 
have been instrumental to me and I really appreciate it!

Best Regards,

Jerry