[LAU] Ensoniq ASR-10 Boot Disk Required

[Nick Copeland]

> On Saturday 05 January 2013 13:22:27 Nick Copeland did opine:
> Message additions Copyright Saturday 05 January 2013 by Gene Heskett
> 
> > Hi All,
> > Just got my ASR-10 back from a few years on loan. Somewhere down the
> > line, probably at some gig, they lost the Iomega ZIP-100 and the
> > original set of floppies I had. These are nigh on impossible to
> > recreate since they are not actually any windows format to make them
> > Ensoniq bootable. Does anybody have a 3.5 boot disk with a version of
> > OS later than 2.01 (I think this was the version that supported the
> > SCSI driver). I will happily pay postage and all that. I want to get
> > this running to work on the Bristol CS-80 emulator using the
> > polypressure features of the ASR. Kind regards, nick
> 
> A fried of mine had an Ensoniq, and he suggested that you should check with 
> rubber chicken software, who apparently have such for download.
> <http://chickensys.com/kb/eps-asr/index.html>
> which might get you the stuff you need.  Good luck.

I have a feeling this need an IDE (PATA) floppy. I have four PC in house andnone of them have a floppy. Tested the software using VM and it failed theboot disk write operation since Ensoniq had a very proprietary format.
If nobody has a set then I either have to order some (not expensive but alsonot guaranteed to work since they depend on the firmware I have) or buy asecondhand PC that has a floppy as I doubt a USB floppy work work either(since it does not have direct control of what actually gets written to the disk). The nice thing about IDE is that it does not do a great deal morethan seek to track and then write the whole track which is what I think theChickenSys software probably does.
There are options on the site to write a bootable ZIP drive but they are forWin98 only.
Kind regards, nick. 		 	   		  
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