Hi, i am trying to set up my falcon for use with cubase audio falcon.
I have an ide > sd adapter internally, and i have a scsi > cf card adapter inside a scsi hard drive enclosure, plugged into the scsi bus on the falcon.
I have tried and tried several different versions and configurations with hddriver (i have v7.93, v8.21 and v8.23) but i have been unsuccessful to get both drives partitioned and the hddriver installed on both of them at the same time. I can either get the scsi drive partitioned and booting but it doesn't see the ide drive, or i can get the ide drive partitioned and booting but then it doesn't see the scsi drive? Extremely frustrating.
Would i be able to use yor driver for successful use with cubase audio falcon.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank You
blaylok
My driver is not for SCSI devices (or devices connected via SCSI port). Only IDE and ACSI. So, on Falcon only IDE.
I think that you should not overcomplicate things. Better is to go on simpler solution. Considering that IDE is much faster on Falcon than SCSI, I say that is better to go on IDE solution. If you need 2 drives (cards) at once, then go on IDE Master + Slave solution.
There are IDE-CF adapters with 2 CF connectors for that. It is possible to do it with IDE cable and 2 IDE-CF adapters (how it worked well for me on Falcon) but must have pretty short cable - what is not easy to find.
Cubase Audio Falcon only works with SCSI for direct-to-disk recording and IDE is for MIDI and simple short sample playback.
Thank you both for the replies and information.
I shall probably just continue as petari suggests with cubase 3 (no audio).
I had been hoping to configure cubase audio for hard disk recording. But as shredder said, it relies on scsi, so until i am able to get my external scsi drive up and running then i shall continue making music with v3.
cheers guys
great forum
For Cubase Audio v2.06 I am using a Fujitsu MAJ3182MC 18.2GB SCSI 3.5" Hard Disk (Compaq BD018635C4) and a Western Digital WD400VE-75HDT1 IDE 2.5" Hard Disk with my Falcon 030 14MB + 68882 FPU. I used HD Driver v7.93 to format and partition the drives and it worked fine. The other hardware interfaces connected are a Steinberg FA8 and a Soundpool SPDIF, which has an ART DPSII digital valve preamp connected; this means I can record high quality clean mics and guitars and keyboards/modules etc. I have not used this setup much due to personal circumstances this year, but I do know it handled eight audio tracks absolutely fine.
Hope this helps.
Hey Shredder, thanks man for the reassurance that i can get all this to work.
Ok, so i need to start trialling older scsi drives and ide drives in order to find something that hddriver 7.93 will like? Is that it?
I also have a Steinberg FA8 and FDI. So i am keen to get it all up running, as i have been let down by pc based systems over the years and have returned to the Atari for music creation.
I shall have a hunt around and see if i can find any of the two drives u mentioned. Thank you very much :-)
I bought those drives mentioned earlier this year very cheaply on Ebay, and in perfect condition so you should be able to find something. The IDE drive is 100% silent like a CompactFlash card, but the drive I have is sealed all round; it cost me about £10 but they go for £20 on average. The SCSI drive cost about £1 per drive with approx £6 postage; it is an 80-pin type drive but a simple 80 to 50 adapter is only £2 or so on Ebay (auction number: 150483818691). I got the low profile adapter so it would fit inside a hard drive silencing enclosure.
As for doe HD Driver prefer certain drives I am not sure yet. I had a cheap IBM 1GB drive circa 1995 which initially worked fine with CAF and then stopped working, when I got over confident and tried a CF card on the SCSI port. The CF worked but not with CAF and then the IBM drive no longer worked. Maybe one of the experts on here or Atari-Forum (Simbo) would have known better than me how to re-configure it to work again. The Fuji/Compaq SCSI drive I have now has stopped working once or twice, but I can get that going again with little trouble.
Oh and I too for the time being have moved away from PCs back to the Atari. I started out with cassette four tracks; then a Fostex DMT8 v2 + D5 DAT digital multitrack setup and then the stupid move to a PC in a box thing. I'm not stupid or inexperienced when it comes to PCs and music, but I have wasted ten years on trying to get it as good as the Fostex + Atari combination. So back to the Atari and this time the Falcon 030!