Emax

Im am seriously considering taking a maxtor or other hard drive
that would normally be mounted on the inside of the EMAX and
enclosing it in a case with a power supply and some sort of conversion
to make the pin setup work with the external scci connection.
   I dont know how practical it is to do this, but the reason I want to do it
is because I moved my emaxII that has a maxtor 540s installed inside
with maybe 150 meg of the 500 filled with samples and it must have got 
bumped or something because all of the banks disappeard and I had to reformat it, because
the sampler wouldnt reconize it.
  I also have an old apple 100 meg external hard drive that made the trip
fine.
     I have another maxtor 540 drive that I have been using as a paper weight on
my desk That I could use as a model to make the enclosure and then buy another
drive at the end of the project,   I of course wouldnt be opposed to finding a 500 meg
external hard drive if I knew were I could get one that would work and wasnt alot of dough.

      Im going to talk to a computer store and see how much for a supply
to power the drive and see if the cables can be done...

As I said Im sure no one ever does it this way because of the work involved and maybe the price?

Any advice is always welcome..

Matt

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Hi Matt
 
I've made an external scsi cabinet with 1 disc inside for each of my keyboards.Furthermore I've made individual on/off switches for each disc which splits the power for the supply to each on/off switch. Be aware that the scsi cables should be as short as possible and no more than 15 feet.
 
Most of my E-mu keyboards can be played when the harddrive is turned off. At least as long as I don't activate any module (which loads a small portion of programs form the HD into memory). This way I can play the keyboard without the noise from the harddrive and it stresses the PSU inside the keyboard less.
 
Best regards
 
Brian

Matt Ferrari r2d2 moo <ferrari5r2d2967moo@...> wrote:
Im am seriously considering taking a maxtor or other hard drive
that would normally be mounted on the inside of the EMAX and
enclosing it in a case with a power supply and some sort of conversion
to make the pin setup work with the external scci connection.
   I dont know how practical it is to do this, but the reason I want to do it
is because I moved my emaxII that has a maxtor 540s installed inside
with maybe 150 meg of the 500 filled with samples and it must have got 
bumped or something because all of the banks disappeard and I had to reformat it, because
the sampler wouldnt reconize it.
  I also have an old apple 100 meg external hard drive that made the trip
fine.
     I have another maxtor 540 drive that I have been using as a paper weight on
my desk That I could use as a model to make the enclosure and then buy another
drive at the end of the project,   I of course wouldnt be opposed to finding a 500 meg
external hard drive if I knew were I could get one that would work and wasnt alot of dough.

      Im going to talk to a computer store and see how much for a supply
to power the drive and see if the cables can be done...

As I said Im sure no one ever does it this way because of the work involved and maybe the price?

Any advice is always welcome..

Matt

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You can get SCSI External case with power supplies and fans for $6 on Ebay. These 
cases allow you to insert your internal drive and it becomes an external drive.

On 10 Mar 2004 at 7:34, Matt Ferrari r2d2 moo spoke unto me:

> Im am seriously considering taking a maxtor or other hard drive
> that would normally be mounted on the inside of the EMAX and
> enclosing it in a case with a power supply and some sort of conversion
> to make the pin setup work with the external scci connection.
>    I dont know how practical it is to do this, but the reason I want
>    to do it
> is because I moved my emaxII that has a maxtor 540s installed inside
> with maybe 150 meg of the 500 filled with samples and it must have got
> bumped or something because all of the banks disappeard and I had to
> reformat it, because the sampler wouldnt reconize it.
>   I also have an old apple 100 meg external hard drive that made the
>   trip
> fine.
>      I have another maxtor 540 drive that I have been using as a paper
>      weight on
> my desk That I could use as a model to make the enclosure and then buy
> another drive at the end of the project,   I of course wouldnt be
> opposed to finding a 500 meg external hard drive if I knew were I
> could get one that would work and wasnt alot of dough.
> 
>       Im going to talk to a computer store and see how much for a
>       supply
> to power the drive and see if the cables can be done...
> 
> As I said Im sure no one ever does it this way because of the work
> involved and maybe the price?
> 
> Any advice is always welcome..
> 
> Matt
> 
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> 
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