frustrated with harddrives and samplers...

[trodden]

alright! i'm sick and tired of dealing with this sampler i bought online that came to me broken. 600 for the freakin thing and i've spent another 150 on trying to bring it back to life... below is a copy of the email i sent to emu asking for help, they're freakin worthless.... so i turn to my beloved tape op boards for a guiding light... please someone... i'm posting this in the computer section as well...

> Hello,
> I purchased a used EIV, completely loaded
> with all the ram and such from an ebay
> seller. Unfortunately it came to me not
> working so i've been trying to revive it to
> life. Initially, when I turned it on, and
> pressed the "disk" button, it would only
> recognize the floppy drive. The internal
> hard drive would be on, but the machine
> would not "see" it.
> So i figured it was a hard drive issue. I
> went to the local used PC store and bought
> another harddrive, a 2 gig internal drive.
> They would'nt let me check it out in the
> store "policy blah blah"
> Took home and installed it.
> Pressed the Disk button, and there it was!!
> yay. So i waited on my EOS upgrade, that
> came the other day before doing anything
> more.
> Installed the new OS. cool. Press the disk,
> and then pressed info for the hard drive.
> It was there, but the screen told me that it
> had 0 capacity and 0 used. so I formatted
> the hard drive. then pressed "info" and now
> it told my that yeah it was a 2 gig drive,
> no folders/banks used. so i thought it was
> all good. i load in a sample and save it to
> the disk. It askes me to name the new bank
> and i do. so then i go to "disk" check out
> the hard drive info, and yep it said
> something like 1 folder 1 bank and like 6%
> used. so i figure that its saved.
> I turn off the machine. turn it on. try to
> load the hardrive, But it won't let me, only
> tries to load the floppy drive. So i check
> out the info on the hard drive, It now says
> the same thing as when i first installed it,
> no info on what size it is, and how much is
> used! Just like before i formatted it the
> first time. ARG! so i don't know if this
> is a hard drive issue or something else.
> Perhaps the hard drive is not compatible?
> and if you could provide me a list of
> specifications, i can't find any on the web
> site for my model of sampler. Again i have
> the eIV classic with the newest os upgrade.
> i'm sure i'm saving right, just as the
> manual says... ahhhh. i hope i don't have a
> $600 broken useless piece of gear..
> thanks for hearing me out, and i hope my
> rambling makes sense.
> Thanks,
> BRandon

[trevord]

it could be because of the power up sequence

new hard drives go thru all kinds of power-on self testing (POST) and sometimes the older machine will tryto access them while they are testing

the host machine would not get a response so the host thinks the drives are not there.

here are some things to try

1) the the sampler for a setting for the drive power up delay
2) try to change the access sequence to check other drives first
3) check the disk for a post switch (or jumper setting)
4) use an older disk - it may do less POST and maybe ready faster
5) check if your drive has "cable detect" jumper setting - change to hard wired (jumpered) "master"

sorry to not have anything more concrete for you