Emax

i recently had a few acard scsi to ide cards but it did not work with the emaxes 

the iodata dont work which is what most external drives are

then theres the ones that ted uses they they are still made by mpl 

but they are £500 as i tried to get a bunch and it was £500 on 100 devices they would only sell them cheaper when buying 1000 devices and then it was still £400 per device and that was with out a an external case just the drives

the pcd-50b they have been stopped being made nearly 10- years ago

there is a cache of them new and they were read only ted got the firmware to do read and write and flashed them so that we had a working model

but he sold them all and they were second hand but there is a amiga company that used teds flash upgrade ands now the drives are available again

but they dont work with all samplers they dont work with ensoniq

only work with some akais

they work with yamaha a series 

they work with kurzweil

and some emu samplers

most samplers only work with lun 0 as no samplers support lun which was a cdrom multi disk protocol for servers  

but the pcd-50b is hot swappable unlike the cf to ide to scsi devices

as pcmcia is a hot swap interface which means you dont need to power off the device when changing media 
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Carl Lofgren 
  To: emax@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2012 10:52 AM
  Subject: Re: [emax] External SCSI Compact Flash?


    
  Yes, I kind of visualized it to be a bit like active vs passive monitors where the external scsi units are in tune with the interface. 

  But it's about here where I don't get it. As far as I understood it - it's not just a matter of adding any scsi unit to the Emax - there are many units that isn't compatible. Does this apply to external drives as well? 

  Yes, the reason why I'm thinking external is because I've got a bunch of old samplers - and more are coming in :)

  /Carl

  Sent from my iPhone

  On 18 May 2012, at 23:44, Ted Summers <djtbs1@...> wrote:

  > Any external drive is really just an internal in a generic SCSI case....
  > 
  > at which point they (the seller) may increase the price $$$$$.
  > 
  > 
  > On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Carl Lofgren <carl_lofgren@...>wrote:
  > 
  >> **
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  >> Hi Ted - the database list is absolutely excellent - a true goldmine of
  >> knowledge. But I honestly cannot find a single external CF drive. I can
  >> only see a bunch of internal SCSI drives, but maybe I'm looking in the
  >> wrong place?
  >> 
  >> /C
  >> 
  >>> ________________________________
  >>> From: Ted Summers <djtbs1@...>
  >>> To: emax@yahoogroups.com
  >>> Sent: Friday, May 18, 2012 7:19 PM
  >>> Subject: Re: [emax] External SCSI Compact Flash?
  >> 
  >>> 
  >>> There is a database in the yahoo groups section if you login that lists
  >>> known working drives for Emax.
  >>> 
  >>> On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 9:51 AM, carl_lofgren <carl_lofgren@...
  >>> wrote:
  >>> 
  >>>> **
  >> 
  >>>> 
  >>>> 
  >>>> Hi all - after been reading throught the list regarding on how to equip
  >>>> the Emax I with Compact Flash, I wonder what options there are for
  >> external
  >>>> Compact Flash SCSI readers? I know there are a bunch of them available
  >> on
  >>>> Ebay but knowing how picky the Emax is - does anyone have any experience
  >>>> connecting the Emax to an external CF reader?
  >>>> 
  >>>> /C
  >>>> 
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  >>>> 
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