KVR Audio

Ignacy · Post by **Ignacy** » Tue Sep 01, 2020 7:11 pm

Hey guys,

I'm upgrading my Yamaha A4000 and have tried to format the SD card but without success.
The sampler recognizes that there's an IDE drive connected (by the name of of Syquest) but when I press format it goes on for ever. I've tried using different brands of SD's. 2GB, 8GB, 16GB. Some with faster read/write speeds, others with slower but always the same result. Also tried formatting as 1 partition instead of 8 or on Physical vs Logical formatting mode, but alas, no success. And also tried connecting the IDE cable in all possible ways.

While soldering on a new rotary encoder I accidentally fried the original SCSI cable from Yamaha so maybe that could be causing this issue? I doubt it though . I replaced it with this https://www.ebay.com/itm/24-inch-IDE-40 ... 2749.l2649 and I don't think that it could the issue (its well made, and the IDE is being recognized).

Does anyone have any experience with this?
I know that a CF card is the more common approach to upgrade these samplers but I hate the CF technology. I have seen some Yamaha A4000 samplers being sold on Ebay with an SD card (not SCSI2SD) and so there must be a way of getting it to work, I'd assume.

If anyone know anything please let know. If not, I'll just give up and use this things as an FX processor only ;P

imrae · Post by **imrae** » Tue Sep 01, 2020 7:34 pm

I put an SD card inside my A3000 without much trouble. I'm not familiar with the adaptor you're using; I used a SCSI2SD and connected it as though a hard drive: power from A3000 pcb header, data over SCSI.

I think there was a jumper or something to configure it as the terminator for the SCSI chain.

Ignacy · Post by **Ignacy** » Tue Sep 01, 2020 7:50 pm

Hey Imrae,

Thanks for your response. I'm using SCSI2SD at the back of the A4000 and have connected it to a SCSI switcher externally.
What I want though it to use the SD card as an IDE drive and be able to quickly take the SD in and out for easier integration with a computer or management of SD's for multiple scenarios

imrae · Post by **imrae** » Tue Sep 01, 2020 8:00 pm

I don't think hot-swapping will work, SCSI doesn't like that.

Ignacy · Post by **Ignacy** » Tue Sep 01, 2020 11:31 pm

Hey Imrae, I don't hot swap

I have samplers connected to one SCSI-Switcher and with one switch I can connect the sampler of my choice to the SD card (containing 6 partitions) of my single external SCSI2SD that I use for all.
I only switch when I'm not loading/saving of course.

Anyone, have any idea about SD and IDE in the Yamaha A4000/A5000?
Help!

Ignacy · Post by **Ignacy** » Thu Sep 03, 2020 1:49 am

For those who care to know. I've put back the 1.44 drive and will just stick with SCSI

Yamaha A4000, getting the SD card to work