User manual E-MU E5000

[. . . ] Contents Contents Safety Instructions Grounding Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Radio and Television Interference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Wichtige Sicherheitsvorschriften . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Instructions de Sécurité Importantes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ] There are three main cautions involved with hard disks: 1. Hard disks are sensitive to extreme mechanical shocks. If your hard disk falls off a keyboard stand, chances are the hard disk will be damaged. Make sure power is not interrupted when you write data to the hard disk. Hard disks have reached a very high level of reliability. However, they can fail from time to time (as can any part of a computer), so any data should be backed up periodically on some other medium. 2. 3. Removable-media Hard Disk Drives: These are similar to normal hard disk drives except that the disk itself can be removed and replaced with another disk. Disk densities can range from 44 Mbytes to well over 1 Gigabyte per platter. Removable-media hard disk drives allow you to build a sound library of unlimited size and are quite handy for transferring sounds between machines. They're also perfect for backups. CD-ROM Drive: A CD-ROM is a playback-only (data cannot be written to it) mass storage memory device whose capacity is approximately 660 Megabytes. Quality CD-ROM libraries are available from several companies (E-MU, InVision, Northstar, Q-Up Arts). These can be loaded into the bank as easily as you would load from a hard disk. Magneto-Optical Drive: Basically a read/writable CD, these high speed, high density storage devices are great for storing large amounts of sound data. Typically a magneto-optical drive can hold upwards of 300 Mb per side and the removable cartridges can be used over and over. Disk access time is comparable to a normal hard disk. O v 1. To Connect the E5000 to an Unformatted Hard Disk Position the SCSI device and the E5000 in a stable location. Hard disk drives are particularly susceptible to shock and vibration. Make sure that you position your hard disk where it won't get bumped or moved while in use. Important: Make sure that all power to the E5000 and the SCSI device is turned OFF. Connect the SCSI device to your E5000 using a quality SCSI cable. Make sure that the connectors are firmly mated and that the wire "keepers" are locked in place. There are two type of SCSI cables in common use: the 50-pin Centronics type and the 25-pin DB connector type. The E5000 uses the 50-pin Centronics type connector. If your drive the DB-25 connector, you can connect them using an adapter cable. If the hard disk is already formatted with another file system, you can use the "Format" function instead of the time consuming "LL Format". See Disk Utilities. 2. 3. E5000 - Getting Started 25 Connections Disk Drive Options O The ID numbers of all connected drives are shown in the Disk Browser. 4. Set the SCSI ID of your external SCSI device to any number other than 6. Consult the operation manual of your SCSI device for this procedure. [. . . ] Allow this test to run through at least four complete cycles or longer if you want. (This time will vary with the amount of RAM installed. ) Press EXIT to abort the test. If the memory tests bad, you may have incorrectly installed the SIMMs. Problems? Disconnect power, open the unit, and try re-seating the SIMMs. Make sure that the RAM SIMMs are installed in the sockets labelled RAM, not ROM. [. . . ]