Yamaha A4000 Card Reader?

[Silverfish]

Hey everyone-

I recently picked up a Yamaha A4000 sampler. It has a zip disk drive installed, and I'm really not a fan of zip disks. Can the A4000 use a standard IDE card reader, or does it have to be SCSI?

thanks for your help!

[Stafftunes]

I'm not 100% sure to be honest. There was some mention on the old A4000/5000 yahoo group about it, I think you needed an ide/scsi convertor so you could use an IDE reader with the Scsi interface. This gave me the impression at the time that ide card readers wouldn't work on the A4k's ide interface. I could be wrong.

I been waiting/searching/trying for years to sort out a card reader for my A4k, the hdd I got in there right now is noisey as h**l.

I love my A4k, so very tweakable, it's great.

[b3groover]

It needs to be SCSI. They are available on eBay now and again. I have a compact flash SCSI card reader installed on my EX5r. Far superior than ZIP.

[Paul Dorrough]

Theoretically you should be able to substitute an IDE card reader in place of the ZIP drive however, Yamaha series samplers were designed to support floppy\zip technology and may not recognize a card reader, however I’d be curious to know if it works. I use Sound Forge 7.0 to transfer samples via SMDI from my PC to the A4000. This set-up only works in Windows XP…Vista, Win7, 8.1 & 10 don’t support the ASPI layer required for SCSI to communicate with the sampler... it only generates an error message that reads “SCSI adapter or sampler is set to none”

Set the Yamaha A4000 to SCSI I.D 1 - SCSI PCI card automatically defaults to 7 – in ‘Utility” turn off the A4000 bulk protect and you’re set.

[clockdivider2]

Yes it's doable, easy and cheap with a $3 IDE reader. The magic key for me was a 4gb Transcend 133x card from ebay; an old 256mb CF card did NOT work. Details here:

https://www.gearslutz.com/board/showpos ... stcount=28

Now can anyone here explain why my A4000 hangs and needs to be power cycled when I try to scroll through the effects? [edit: reloading the OS from floppy fixed the hang.]

[albionpatterns]

Did anyone in this thread have any joy with getting their IDE-CF reader to work?

I have installed a Startech IDE-CF 3.5" Drive in my A4000 and Using a Sandisk 512mb card AND also Transcend 4gb card it can be 'seen' by the sampler in the DISK > VOLUME menu.. It can also be mounted there and saved to after formatting....

But the main reaosn I wanted the CF drive was to be able to format to FAT32 and be able to move WAVs and programs to and from my sampler from the computer, This is one task I havent been able to yet.

Did anyone get theres working? Martin78 says he has on his blog: http://martin78.com/samplers/yamaha-a4000-a5000/

And I have used his setup as my guide.. He says that the Yamaha will import from FAT32 media.

I remember having this same nightmare when I installed a card reader into my MPC2000XL, Why do we do this to ourselves? LOL

Please help if anyone managed to get it sorted, Otherwise ignore this dead thread

AEP

[Ashe37]

try connecting it to the PC and formatting it there?