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@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> From: gnome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> To: linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> Subject: Re: 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user > _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
