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<div>> From: gnome@hawaii.rr.com<br>> To: linux-audio-user@lists.linuxaudio.org<br>> Subject: Re: [LAU] Ensoniq ASR-10 Boot Disk Required<br>> <br>> On 01/05/2013 09:12 AM, Nick Copeland wrote:<br>> > > On Saturday 05 January 2013 13:22:27 Nick Copeland did opine:<br>> > > Message additions Copyright Saturday 05 January 2013 by Gene Heskett<br>> > ><br>> > > > Ensoniq bootable. Does anybody have a 3.5 boot disk with a version of<br>> > > > OS later than 2.01 (I think this was the version that supported the<br>> > > > SCSI driver).<br>> > > A fried of mine had an Ensoniq, and he suggested that you should<br>> > check with<br>> > > rubber chicken software, who apparently have such for download.<br>> > > <http://chickensys.com/kb/eps-asr/index.html><br>> > > which might get you the stuff you need. Good luck.<br>> ><br>> > I have a feeling this need an IDE (PATA) floppy. I have four PC in house and<br>> > none of them have a floppy. Tested the software using VM and it failed the<br>> > boot disk write operation since Ensoniq had a very proprietary format.<br>> <br>> Maybe you can buy an internal floppy drive (I'm guessing a 3.5" floppy) <br>> and add it to one of your existing PCs? Floppy disks and controllers <br>> weren't very smart ...<br><br>That might work, I think at least one of the PC (they are all laptop) had an</div><div>option for FDD so it might have an IDE connector somewhere.<br><br>> dd might be able to write the floppy, too, if you get a disk image and a <br>> drive that supports that format.<br><br></div><div>Long shot. DD still only writes blocks so it depends on the underlying disk</div><div>driver for the actual drive format. These are not DOS or NTFS format so AFAIK</div><div>there are no drivers for them on Linux. I did find a few references for Linux RW</div><div>tools although they did not support writing bootable OS disks.</div><div><br></div><div>Will take one of the older laptops apart and look for the disk connector types.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards, nick</div> </div></body>
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