Hi Nick, On Sat Jan 5 2013, Nick Copeland wrote: > > From: gnome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > On 01/05/2013 09:12 AM, Nick Copeland wrote: > > > > > 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 anoption 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 diskdriver for the actual drive format. These are not DOS > or NTFS format so AFAIKthere are no drivers for them on Linux. I did > find a few references for Linux RWtools 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 Many years ago I would read and write EPS disks using an IDE FDD and a stock linux kernel. I think this was around the late kernel 2.4 days. The trick was to use setfdprm(1) to set the correct disk format first -- and unfortunately, I don't seem to have kept a record of the needed settings. (The EPS would only use DD disks, while the ASR can use both DD and HD disks.) This site: http://yceran.org/eps/ is out-of-date but may point you in the right direction (also google 'ensoniq setfdprm'). I still have the PC with the floppy drive in it. If you end up having a hard time locating a suitable drive, I could blow the dust bunnies out of mine and see if it still works. -Sean _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
