| Re: Attempt/Issues reviving PARIS system...Many questions...Help please! [message #109030 is a reply to message #109029] |
Fri, 01 January 2016 20:41   |
Kim W.
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Registered: January 2010
Location: Australia
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Greetings, and Happy New Year.
Your system is indeed antiquated.
One thing stood out, however. SCSI is absolutely not needed.
I too initially used a dedicated SCSI drive, but found I was getting MUCH higher track counts just using the system drive.
Try it! Even with your old system, you should get more than ten tracks!
As you already have version 3 of Paris, you are well on your way to setting up a very capable system. I'd say there is absolutely nothing worth salvaging from your old system.
You could pick up, say, a dual core Intel or AMD computer for literally nothing these days. If going second hand, Check government clearance auctions, or even scour the streets! Make sure the motherboard has no bulging electrolytic capacitors, and has SATA ports, as well as enough of the older PCI slots for your EDS's.
You can buy a nice new 500gb drive for around $30. It doesn't have to be anything special. Any modern drive can easily cope with 24 tracks plus. (I have no problem with 64 tracks, albeit at 16 bit).
If you install windows 7, and purchase Mike's new driver install, (which also installs v3 paced..replace .exe after install), you'll be blown away as to how well Paris performs. The new driver installs very easily, and there are Pace free alternatives for v3. Search around this site. ID are no longer issuing response codes for Paris. I would stay away from Windows 10. Some folks are happy with windows 8, but I prefer 7.
There are no real optimization procedures needed nowadays, unlike years ago.
Back up any projects over to a removable drive, or USB stick and
copy back to the new system. One thing though, if the drive your projects were recorded on was a separate drive (i.e. drive "d", you will have to reset the file paths within Paris on your new system). The procedure is sometimes tricky, I find. Therefore, you are better off with a two drive setup, thereby replicating the drive structure of your old rig).
Cheers,
Kim
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