Akai Dps 16 Track Recorder Please Say I'm Not Screwed!, Akai DPS 16 hard drive warning Options

[charliemak]

hey ya'll
i got alot of songs on this akai DPS 16 that decided to go lame. when i turn it on i get a warning that says

1141:
inquiry / identify command failed. Check the drive.
ID:
ATA ERROR=81005104

right next to the ID: (here) the ID number never stops. it blurs thru 1 2 3..... ATA and then starts over again. this is barley readable because of the speed in which it scolls thru. of course there is the sad & crying face of a little girl also on that screen also. The DPS has an OS of 1.11 does anyone make/ have software that would repair this disk? Am i forced to loose everything and reformat? (say it ain't so) Is there some kind of reset button i can hold down during start-up or something? If i bought a external drive and updated the OS would there even be a chance the drive would behave? I got alot of stuff i couldn't begin to replace. somebody, anybody, evertbody H E L P!!!

[charliemak]

wow, if that works (and i can ingest the procedure) that would be terrific !!! i already took out the old hard drive and replaced it with the old 10 gig from my G4. i thought maybe if i could update the operating system from the 1.1 version that i currently have to the OS V3.02 some how that might work but would need to find/buy a 50 pin scsi drive to connect to the DPS and try to load the new system i would download from
http://www.akaipro.com/archives.php

don't know if you guys tried this yet. let me know if you have. if not then i'll pony up the cash and go on the hunt for the scsi and give it a try.


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