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<font face="Times New Roman" size="2" style="font-size:10pt;">Let me thank everybody who put in advice on where to go with this. I went through </font><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="2" style="font-size:10pt;">a few cycles:</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="2" style="font-size:10pt;"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="2" style="font-size:10pt;">a. picked up an old ZIP100 parallel SCSI (20 euroes).</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="2" style="font-size:10pt;">b. found a utility called EPSLIN (with source) that writes to the floppy or HDD and can</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="2" style="font-size:10pt;">generate the proprietary formats. This does not work with USB FDD since it has to </font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="2" style="font-size:10pt;">use some kernel calls that control the programming of the uC765 floppy controller</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="2" style="font-size:10pt;">chip. With USB attached floppies this chip, or similar, is actually on the external</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="2" style="font-size:10pt;">floppy so the kernel calls have no access.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="2" style="font-size:10pt;">c. Found bipolarisation.com who put the OS and factory disks on-line (have to thank</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="2" style="font-size:10pt;">them too).</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman">d. Formatted a ZIP100 SCSI (24 euroes for a pair of disks)</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman">e. Copied the OS over.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman">f. Linked it up to the ASR.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman">g. Nothing. This is a pretty stupid ZIP drive - no options to terminate the SCSI or </font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman">to select the device ID. Incompatible. Will sell it again.....</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman">h. Got back online and got hold of a Dell floppy (15 Euroes)</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman">i. Picked up some floppy disks (4 euroes for a box of 10).</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman">j. Let's just make this one short - did not work in any of my 4 Dell laptops. It was</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman">from the Latitude C series.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman">k. Got down to CashConverters, picked up an old Compaq desktop for 60 Euroes.</font></div><div>l. Put together a liveboot USB (quicker than downloading a live DVD)</div><div>m. Put a 32bit version of epslin on to the stick, put the ARS OS and the 8</div><div>factory disk images.</div><div>n. Formatted onto a really floppy disk drive.</div><div>o. copied the OS to it.</div><div>p. put the disk into the ASR10.</div><div><br></div><div>MAN, IT NOW BOOTS!</div><div><br></div><div>Working with floppies would normally be painful but until I can get hold of</div><div>an even older ZIP drive or some other parallel SCSI device it will do - I am</div><div>not going to be loading (m)any sounds, I just want the OS there spitting</div><div>midi out into bristol for the PolyPressure stuff.</div><div><br></div><div>Again, thanks for all the advice.<br><br>Am going to put out a bristol 0.60.11 which just fixes some build errata</div><div>using patches contributed to the project, then some time later I want to </div><div>get the CS-80 emulator working as a 0.70 or similar. I will add options to</div><div>have PolyPressure track ChannelPressure as I know there are not many</div><div>keyboards out there with poly capabilities (also from this thread).</div><div><br></div><div>Regards, nick<br>"at the end of the day its nil nil at half time”.<br>Trevor Brooking<br><br><br><div><div id="SkyDrivePlaceholder"></div>> Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2013 22:07:30 -1000<br>> 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 01/06/2013 01:24 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:<br>> > On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 11:28 AM, david wrote:<br>> ><br>> >> I think his concern with USB floppy drives was that it might not be possible<br>> >> to write non-standard floppy formats over USB, since some of the<br>> >> non-standard formats require changing settings in the floppy drive<br>> >> controller itself.<br>> ><br>> > Hmmm, that's clearly beyond my expertise :)<br>> <br>> Mine, too. I remember alternative disk-at-once ways of writing 1.8 or <br>> 2MB to a 1.44MB floppy ... we thought that was a height of geekness, <br>> squeezing in those extra kilobytes ... guess I'm old or something.<br>> <br>> >> I don't know how much they cost now.<br>> ><br>> > There are $12 units, there are $180 units. Depends on the brand.<br>> <br>> Probably the same basic hardware beneath them all. I think the Sony <br>> external drive we have added about $100 to the total price of her old <br>> system. ;-)<br>> <br>> -- <br>> David<br>> gnome@hawaii.rr.com<br>> authenticity, honesty, community<br>> http://clanjones.org/david/<br>> http://dancing-treefrog.deviantart.com/<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Linux-audio-user mailing list<br>> Linux-audio-user@lists.linuxaudio.org<br>> http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user<br></div></div> </div></body>
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