Vintage Synth Repair

Well, no. I did not do that. But that doesn't explain why it freezes up in the disk menu. Once youre in it you apparently can't get out of it. I would assume that you would assign the SCSI and disk preferences as you suggest, from this menu. Or is there another route? I thank for your interest so far, Dan. Maybe this reply helps clarify the problem. I definately get you on the idea of an address conflict, which is why I unplugged the hard drive again. But it still doesn't do anything. I won't even load floppies anymore. This was all apparently a result of unplugging and plugging that hard drive in again. So maybe the previous owner did have a reason. 

--- In vintagesynthrepair@yahoogroups.com, Daniel Forró <dan.for@...> wrote:
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> Have you set different SCSI address for each of SCSI devices? Maybe  
> there's just device address conflict.
> 
> Daniel Forro
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> On 25 Nov 2010, at 10:57 AM, brofjw wrote:
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> > Hi. I've had this Kurzweil K2000R for about a year now and I'm  
> > starting to think it's jinxed. It seemed to have a dead internal  
> > battery, something I knew when I bought it. I found out later that  
> > the battery holder had cracked (as many K2000R's have). While I had  
> > the cover open, I also noticed that this unit actually had a hard  
> > drive inside but someone had disconnected both the power and the  
> > ribbon cable. Until then I had been using floppies and an SCSI cd- 
> > drive. I plugged the hard rive in and was thrilled to find it  
> > worked perfectly. (Why would someone unplug it if it worked fine?)  
> > Anyway sent away to Hong Kong for a generic battery holder and  
> > replaced the factory one with it. That also worked perfectly.  
> > Here's where the trouble starts:
> >
> > After ascertaining that the hard drive worked, I also plugged back  
> > in my SCSI CD-drive. For some reason the K2000 didn't pick it up. I  
> > figured the internal hard drive must have replaced the SCSI drive.  
> > So I uplugged the hard drive again and tried to boot the CD-drive.  
> > No dice. At this point when I hit "disk", the K2000 only  
> > acknowledges the flopy drive and there is no list of either the  
> > hard drive or SCSI. What's more, it seems to get stuck on the  
> > "disk" menu and refuses all commands thereafter. Does anyone have  
> > any idea what is wrong with this thing? I can still play the  
> > internal RAM sounds, no problem. But this is the tip of the iceberg  
> > for this machines capabilities, in theory. Should shoot this thing  
> > and put it out of its misery? Or should I sell it for a measly $100  
> > and move on? Or is there some simple solution I am not seeing? Any  
> > help is appreciated. Thanks! :-)
>