[LAU] Ensoniq ASR-10 Boot Disk Required

[Matt Henley]

I have an EPS with a still working boot disk.. but don't think that
will help you..  I found this..

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Ensoniq-ASR-10-OS-3-53-Boot-Disk-Operating-System-Disk-/110674617427

On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 1:44 PM, Nick Copeland <nickycopeland at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> From: gnome at hawaii.rr.com
>> To: linux-audio-user at lists.linuxaudio.org
>> Subject: Re: [LAU] Ensoniq ASR-10 Boot Disk Required
>
>>
>> On 01/05/2013 09:12 AM, Nick Copeland wrote:
>> > > On Saturday 05 January 2013 13:22:27 Nick Copeland did opine:
>> > > Message additions Copyright Saturday 05 January 2013 by Gene Heskett
>> > >
>> > > > 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).
>> > > 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
>> > and
>> > none of them have a floppy. Tested the software using VM and it failed
>> > the
>> > boot disk write operation since Ensoniq had a very proprietary format.
>>
>> Maybe you can buy an internal floppy drive (I'm guessing a 3.5" floppy)
>> and add it to one of your existing PCs? Floppy disks and controllers
>> weren't very smart ...
>
> That might work, I think at least one of the PC (they are all laptop) had an
> option for FDD so it might have an IDE connector somewhere.
>
>
>> dd might be able to write the floppy, too, if you get a disk image and a
>> drive that supports that format.
>
> Long shot. DD still only writes blocks so it depends on the underlying disk
> driver for the actual drive format. These are not DOS or NTFS format so
> AFAIK
> there are no drivers for them on Linux. I did find a few references for
> Linux RW
> tools although they did not support writing bootable OS disks.
>
> Will take one of the older laptops apart and look for the disk connector
> types.
>
> Regards, nick
>
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