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 Emu + Harddisk= Howto?, a question about an internal hard disk for emu |
 Sat 12 Sep 2009, 18:29
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 4 Joined: 27-Mar 08 From: Cochin - IN Member No.: 99,883  |
hello everyone, i have an emu 4xt ultra sampler and it has got max ram 256 and some internal memory. so i wish to connect another hard disk also which is internal. so could anyone help me out with what kind of hard disks emu will incorporate.... i guess it would be internal scsi hard disk but is there is any size limitation? like, i can only plug a hard disk less than 40 gb or something? if anyone knows, please help me out, lots of samples, lots of sounds, very little space and one poor me!!!
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Thu 17 Sep 2009, 02:29
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 Moderator In Chief (MIC)  Group: Editors Posts: 15,189 Joined: 23-Dec 01 From: Paris - FR Member No.: 2,758 |
You can have an IDE drive up to at least 80 GB with the latest OS. It's easy to make a substitute to the IDE kit (a cable).
The SCSI drive can be 18 GB max. If you use a larger one, it'll be recognized as 18 GB only. -------------------- Our Classifeds • Nos petites annonces • Terms Of Service / Conditions d'Utilisation • Forum Rules / Règles des Forums • MacMusic.Org & SETI@Home
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Fri 18 Sep 2009, 17:15
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 4 Joined: 27-Mar 08 From: Cochin - IN Member No.: 99,883 |
thank you so much for the advice sir, but will any ide hard drive do? i haven't opened the emu so far, a bit hesitant to do so but is it having ide connection port and all? is it just as easy as pluging it in and formatting?
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Fri 18 Sep 2009, 18:26
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Moderator In Chief (MIC) Group: Editors Posts: 15,189 Joined: 23-Dec 01 From: Paris - FR Member No.: 2,758 |
The IDE kit from E-mu is just an ATA cable and another for the powering. On the drive itself, any IDE will do, but there must be a limit so investing into a 500 GB drive could be stupid…The OS/hardware limit is 138 GB as it's a common issue one due to controller limitations in computers a long time ago. Now the 80 GB is working, it's been told on the E-mu 5000 mailing list and I found another user talking about a 120 GB so it's covered.
The opening is easy, I've never done it on a E4XT but it should be similar, a few screws away and it's opened. There's the official manual of the official cable
Reason for edit: found more input
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Wed 14 Jul 2010, 10:33
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Moderator In Chief (MIC) Group: Editors Posts: 15,189 Joined: 23-Dec 01 From: Paris - FR Member No.: 2,758 |
Note that there's been a reported working IDE hard drive of 160 GB recognized as 130 GB lately.
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