Emax

that reader is a acard scsi to ide adapter and a atapi version hot swap ide to cf drive

you can use the pcd-50b the same one used in the emax

they cost £50 imported from the usa for a nos version and they work great you can use nice big cf cards with the esi4000

a pcmcia to cf adapters are only £2 on the bay and an 8gb cards are £10-15

you can fit the whole emu library EII emax1/2/EIIIX on that drive and be left with loads of space

and with emxp you could convert sf2 to EIIIX format so you would have limited sample pallete
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: tl200024 
  To: emax@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2012 4:42 AM
  Subject: [emax] Re: ESI 4000 Formatting Zip Problems


    
  Thank you very much for this advice. I am now going to pursue a scsi cf card reader. I was wondering if you have any suggestions on a good reader, preferably external, because I would have trouble installing an internal one. Also, please let me know if the readers on the following links would work,

  http://www.ebay.com/itm/SCSI-FLASH-CARD-READER-WRITER-DRIVE-for-AKAI-MPC3000-USING-3-11-COMPATIBLE-/370665849610?pt=US_Computer_Recording_Interfaces&hash=item564d68030a

  Thank you very much for your help,

  Tony

  --- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "jammie" <jammie.emma@...> wrote:
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  > if its making clicks then your zip drive has the click of death 
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  > what happens is it uses pressure to spin the zip disk when this presure is weakend the spindal spins but the disk does not and the spindal does the click as it engages and disengages from the disk spinning and slipping time to get a new zip disk as there is no cure for it
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  > if they used a proper key like a triangle or a square then the spindale could not slip
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  > in latermodels the plus range they changed the mechanism which prevented this
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  > go scsi cf card and you will have no problems like this as there are no moving parts
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  > but saying this the esi4000 is a 3rd generation EIIIX and not an emax which is 6 generations sampler before itand has nothing in common
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  > i think we need to start to change this forum to emu samplers in general as more questions are being rlated to newer versions of emu samplers
  > ----- Original Message ----- 
  > From: tl200024 
  > To: emax@yahoogroups.com 
  > Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2012 2:15 AM
  > Subject: [emax] ESI 4000 Formatting Zip Problems
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  > Hello. I have been having major problems trying to format zip disks for the ESI 4000. I ordered 3 blank zip disks, and I tried formatting, and they all did not work and are now useless. I read that I needed to press an 8, on the formatting screen, so maybe that was why. I ordered an IBM compatible blank zip disk, and tried to format the disk. I pressed 8 on the formatting screen, it made a bunch of clicks, and eventually said formatting error. I was wondering if you know if the zip disks need to be in a certain preformat in order to format them on the esi 4000. Also, I know the drive is fine, because I am able to import the Alan Wilder sounds into the machine. I just want to be able to save my work in the future. Thank you very much for your help.
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