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Sharp wrote:I don't think anyone would never need anything bigger than 250GB. It is a perfect total future proof size though..

Hummm one thing I've learn with drive is to never say that!

And the first one I bought was 20 megs.

Dniss wrote:

Sharp wrote:I don't think anyone would never need anything bigger than 250GB. It is a perfect total future proof size though..

Hummm one thing I've learn with drive is to never say that!

And the first one I bought was 20 megs.

It depends how long Sharp wants to use the Kronos.

Bill Gates has said once: 640KB is enough for every PC. However, nowadays PC would not even start up with that amount of memory.

However, when Sharp exepcts that he will buy a new synth in about 5 years (just naming some value), that 250GB might be enough. At that time maybe a 5TB HDD will be in the synth, copying items to its SSD when needed.

James, I want to personally thank you for posting this video. Because of this video, I was able to debug a start up issue when I installed my SSD. I would get Bootup Failed errors. and I couldn't figure out why. It was because they installed the MAIN SSD in Slot 1 instead of Slot 0 so when my Kronos booted, with the new drive in Slot 0, naturally it wouldn't load because there was no operating system on that drive.

FOR OTHERS ADDING A NEW DRIVE, BEWARE THE EXISTING DRIVE MUST BE INSTALLED IN PORT 0 AND THE NEW DRIVE IN PORT 1

kbrkr wrote:James, I want to personally thank you for posting this video. Because of this video, I was able to debug a start up issue when I installed my SSD. I would get Bootup Failed errors. and I couldn't figure out why. It was because they installed the MAIN SSD in Slot 1 instead of Slot 0 so when my Kronos booted, with the new drive in Slot 0, naturally it wouldn't load because there was no operating system on that drive.

FOR OTHERS ADDING A NEW DRIVE, BEWARE THE EXISTING DRIVE MUST BE INSTALLED IN PORT 0 AND THE NEW DRIVE IN PORT 1

No problem. Happy to hear it came in handy.

Regards
Sharp.

I'm gonna bump this to ask this question one more time.

If I open up my Kronos to put a 120GB SSD in and also a stick of RAM, should I get a 2GB stick to add to the installed 2GB stick for a total of 4GB - OR - should i just get a 1GB stick to add to the second slot because the OS won't read, use or access any more than 3GB of RAM anyway?

whew ... that was long-winded. Just curious if anyone can confirm or deny this. Dan? Sharp? Bueller? Bueller?

I purchased a 1 gig stick and it was cheaper and works like a champ. Why spend more money when you don't have to.

I doubt they will rewrite the operating system for 64bit to address the full 4gig of ram. And if they do, then you can purchase 8 gig!

pfrocha wrote:

pfrocha wrote:

tjdeerinck wrote:You may want to connect it to a computer and remove all partitions from it first. If you had cloned it to the current system drive, you might be having a conflict of some sort. Removing all partitons / id's from the drive should get you going.

~TJ

I did not tamper with / clone the original drive. I took it out of the Kronos the day I installed the 120gb and that what it. Now the new 120gb drive has system 2.0.2 and is recognized. The old SDD still has 1.6 and does not appear...

I do not have a Sata case to connect the SDD to my Mac, so it would be great if anybody has other ideas before I have to buy a case (which will not be used again after this)...

Thanks again.

I decided to open the Kronos again, remove the new 120gb and put in just the 30gb original. Since I formatted it with FAT32 and later with ext3, it has to be formatted again. I started up the Kronos with an external DVD and the Kronos DVD in it, it asked me if I wanted to format the HD, I said yes, and then I got "disk format failed. cannot install."

The HD mounts fine in my Mac, so I know it's working.

Why doesn't Kronos format this particular HD? Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

HELP ANYONE? Kronos refuses to format the second SSD, although it mounts in both Mac and PC. I've formatted it with ext3, tried plugging into Sata 0 and Sata 1, but Kronos still refuses to format it (so I can install the system).

pfrocha wrote: HELP ANYONE? Kronos refuses to format the second SSD, although it mounts in both Mac and PC. I've formatted it with ext3, tried plugging into Sata 0 and Sata 1, but Kronos still refuses to format it (so I can install the system).

So the 120GB drive works, but the factory drive does not ?

It's probably a partition issue with the specific drive KORG use. Some SATA drives if you format them cannot be used as boot drives without a lot of work.

Have you tried HD Clone ?
http://www.miray.de/products/sat.hdclone.html

This can clone your working 120GB drive back to your 40GB drive, and make the necessary adjustments to the partition size so the actual cloning works.

Providing you don't have more than 40GB of data on the 120GB drive that is.

Regards
Sharp.

kbrkr wrote:I purchased a 1 gig stick and it was cheaper and works like a champ. Why spend more money when you don't have to.

I doubt they will rewrite the operating system for 64bit to address the full 4gig of ram. And if they do, then you can purchase 8 gig!

with the advanced sample streaming of 2.02, is it really a big deal to have greater than 4 gig of ram ?

Not necessarily Greg as long as you have a big SSD in it.

GregC wrote:

kbrkr wrote:I purchased a 1 gig stick and it was cheaper and works like a champ. Why spend more money when you don't have to.

I doubt they will rewrite the operating system for 64bit to address the full 4gig of ram. And if they do, then you can purchase 8 gig!

with the advanced sample streaming of 2.02, is it really a big deal to have greater than 4 gig of ram ?

""IF"" the OS was 64Bit, hell yeah.
The more RAM you have, the more data you can have in memory to stream.

Regards
Sharp.

After a full format of my Kronos SDD, I went on to re-authorize it. I obtained the number from Korg's website, downloaded the file, put in into a USB drive and successfully reauthorised my Kronos.

But now it asks me to reboot and when I do I am back again at the re-authorization screen.

How do I resolve this loop?

Thanks

kbrkr wrote:James, I want to personally thank you for posting this video. Because of this video, I was able to debug a start up issue when I installed my SSD. I would get Bootup Failed errors. and I couldn't figure out why. It was because they installed the MAIN SSD in Slot 1 instead of Slot 0 so when my Kronos booted, with the new drive in Slot 0, naturally it wouldn't load because there was no operating system on that drive.

FOR OTHERS ADDING A NEW DRIVE, BEWARE THE EXISTING DRIVE MUST BE INSTALLED IN PORT 0 AND THE NEW DRIVE IN PORT 1

I experienced the same thing when I installed a Samsung 830 256GB drive and remembered the video saying something about slot 0. Once that was switched over, it was pretty painless. 235GB usable once formatted. There's other things I learned while digging in, but I'll put those in the "Brave ones" thread.

For what's relevant here: I found 18" SATA cables for a K73 is not long enough. I'd say 22" is comfortable. After staring at my Shiny new 18" SATA cables that were ready to go in my already disassembled Kronos but could not, I sucked it up and went to Best Buy. Luckily for me an associate "Harold" asked me how I was doing and I whined about the single 24" SATA cable price of $20. So for whatever reason he took pity on me and I got it for $11 out the door which I felt was reasonable. Thanks Harold!

The power cords had to be re-arranged like everyone else did, but they were still pretty snug. I rearranged some routing a touch to alleviate some strain on the connectors.

RAM: I had a matching pair of 4 GB in my Windows machine and an extra 2x1 GB pair laying around.

So rather than buy new RAM, I just stuck the 4GB RAM set from my Windows machine in the Kronos and then put the 2GB stick from the Kronos and the 2x1GB set in the Wndows machine. So far all seems to be running well. The timing for my RAM stick was 6-6-6-12

The Windows machine is still XP and is what I use for Recording productions. It's fairly old but runs fine. Since 4GB is the limit for XP as well, I decided to take the path described above. Couldn't justify $50 for "old" memory (which is no twice as expensive per GB as current memory) and I wanted a matched pair. Hey I figure even if somewhere down the road we get that 250mb back, it could go a long way! AND, if I decide to switch to Win7 full bore I'm building a whole new machine.

kbrkr wrote:
FOR OTHERS ADDING A NEW DRIVE, BEWARE THE EXISTING DRIVE MUST BE INSTALLED IN PORT 0 AND THE NEW DRIVE IN PORT 1

+1
I did the same error when installing mine

kbrkr wrote:James, I want to personally thank you for posting this video. Because of this video, I was able to debug a start up issue when I installed my SSD. I would get Bootup Failed errors. and I couldn't figure out why. It was because they installed the MAIN SSD in Slot 1 instead of Slot 0 so when my Kronos booted, with the new drive in Slot 0, naturally it wouldn't load because there was no operating system on that drive.

FOR OTHERS ADDING A NEW DRIVE, BEWARE THE EXISTING DRIVE MUST BE INSTALLED IN PORT 0 AND THE NEW DRIVE IN PORT 1

Yes, this has just caught me out too and the video is what gave me the clue to the problem! Thanks James!