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Re: [emax] Uni-Flash USB alternative to the PCD 50/60B?

2013-10-29 by jammie

its very old code you would first need to disasemble the original as there are no available
hard copies this takes a very long time plus there might be some logic requied to make the signals as its a much later protocol in 1990,s about 4-5 years later than the emax
those cf drives from japan will work but they dont have a case you will need to make one they are not hot swap
and they are a clone of the acard 7720u and use the mac firmware with a direct cf card interface instead of the ide port
the cf card interface is identacal to the ide in fact just in a smaller format
yes it would be nice to have them cheap but for a 4 layer pcb design and manufacture and all the custom chips required and the acard chip is already end of life so when they are gone they are gone
its a very expensive product to get made in small quantities
remember the pcd drives and others original price tags was £200-500 new
they only became cheap when they became redundent tech because of usb
and they were made for the photo shop processing machines which now use the cheaper usb devices
now if you had the code and can do a rewrite then usb would be able to be done and would be cheaper like on the korg dss1 im an installer for tom and we have talked about a few machines and doing usb conversions
ensoniq was one but i could not get the code released even though the company has been dead since the late 90,s
same with roland i tried to get a non disclosure agrement in to creating new pcm cards for the jd800/990/jv1080 and was told no by there lawyer team
rob of the emulator archive tried to get all the code for the emax and he got everything they had but the code was lost
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2013 3:18 AM
Subject: Re: [emax] Uni-Flash USB alternative to the PCD 50/60B?

cant somebody that actually knows how to write firmware code open source this conversion easy? I mean is there intellectual property involved. IDE SCSI lund 0 1, is Arduino capable enough to do the math. Maybe not enough IO. Has anybody tried the SCSI CF drives from Japan, i just wish they were 75bucks not 150.


On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 4:55 PM, Windrum Scoggin <windrumscoggin@...> wrote:

I'm absolutely laughing my ass off!

At the situation of course.....
Not in the fact that poor musicians wasted loads of time and money by this guy...
Serves him right.
he's a NOOB now.
'NOBODY Out OF Business'



On Monday, October 28, 2013, jammie wrote:

yes he used to hot glue every thing and do lots of bodges
said things worked and they did not even with out testing
when i told him what worked for the ensoniqs he asked my supplier then went an brought the whole damn lot leaving me with only ten
and he was greedy when he ran out of iodat version 1 cards he brought iodata version 2 scsi to ide adapters and sold them as working for ensoniqs but they did not work which i new
i then had a moaning email from him saying that the iodata vesion 2 did not work and none of my jumper setting would work with it
i laughed at him telling him i could of told you that the version 2 cards did not work but he only contacted me when he had complaints he never even tested them
and then tried to blame me but thats what you get for being greedy and not checking it cost him a lot of money with payapl charge backs from customers and as they say what comes around goes around he brought all the stock that i had with a stockist and i could not get any more so it was tuff justice
dont shit on people who help you its the same as biting the hand that feeds you its just not done
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, October 28, 2013 10:47 PM
Subject: Re: [emax] Uni-Flash USB alternative to the PCD 50/60B?

Secondly-

I never had dealings with the guy, but I think he disappeared when a virtual mob of pitchfork wielding village folk went looking for him.
Apparently they may have thought he was Frankenstein's monster (or sold them bad products or bad customer service or something like that) ????

There was quite some anger on the boards a couple years ago... if I recall correctly. Not just here, but synthzone and a couple other boards too...

-Ted


On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 3:35 PM, <windrumscoggin@...> wrote:

has anyone successfully installed and used the Uni-Flash USB

here

http://www.2av.com.ua/indexe.htm

Secondly, what happened to this guy at SCSI for Samplers? He's all but disappeared

http://jimatwood.wordpress.com/2011/04/19/scsi-card-reader-drives-for-all-samplers/


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