Confirmed - Works on the Roland XV-5080

[manpaz]

Hello,

I'd like to confirm that the BlueSCSI works on the Roland XV-5080.

Tested with a Roland XV-5080 firmware version 1.23.
Tested with a BlueSCSI 1.1a DB25

Although I couldn't find any reference to what's the maximum size an XV-5080 is able to work with, there seems to be a note on Sweetwater that it can go up to 2TB with the firmware v1.10 or newer. (REF: https://www.sweetwater.com/sweetcare/articles/what-largest-capacity-hard-drive-xv-5080-format-roland/), thus I assume that conclusion comes due the fact that the XV-5080 creates a FAT32 partition on each volume.

I created 4 drives of 4GB each, on the LUN0 and assigned them to the SCSI IDs 1, 2, 3, and 4 to avoid conflicts with the ID 0 which is usually reserved for communications with external computers and ID 7 which is the default for the XV-5080. Caution needs to be taken if the BlueSCSI is on a daisy chain configuration as the manual states that is better to don't to that as the computer tends to access the drive constantly and can create a conflict while the XV-5080 tries to access it and the locking up the XV-5080.

Technically, one can go with up to 8 IDs, minus the ID is taken by the XV-5080, then, there are 7 IDs still available, however, for the purpose of testing, and because I'm using a 16GB SD, I only created 4 drives.

The procedure used is as follows:

1. On Linux, execute the following commands to produce the needed volumes:

dd if=/dev/zero of=HD10_512.hda bs=4M count=1024
dd if=/dev/zero of=HD20_512.hda bs=4M count=1024
dd if=/dev/zero of=HD30_512.hda bs=4M count=1024
dd if=/dev/zero of=HD40_512.hda bs=4M count=1024

2. Once the volumes are done, format the SD card as ExFAT and then copy over the images into the SD card.
3. Umount the SD card
4. Plug-in the SD card to the BlueSCSI, hook up the BlueSCSI to the SCSI port on the XV-5080 and then power up the XV-5080.
5. Once the unit is on, press the [DISK] button
6. Press [F5 (Tool)] and then [F1 (Format)]
7. Press [F1 (Drive)] and scroll the "VALUE" knob until "SCSI1:" is highlighted on the "Drive" list on the right at the screen
8. Press [F6 (OK)]
9. Press [F4 (V.Label)] if you want to set a volume label, then press [F6 (OK)] when you are done
10. Press [F6 (Quick)], and again press [F6 (OK)] to confirm
11. Press [F6 (Accept)] when done
12. Repeat the steps 7 to 11 for SCSI IDs 2,3, and 4
13. Turn off the XV-5080, detach the BlueSCSI from the SCSI port on the XV-5080, take the SD card and put it back on the computer
14. Mount the SD Card on the OS
15. Get the partition offset and size

fdisk -l /run/media/$(whoami)/BlueSCSI/HD10_512.hda

Device                                       Boot Start     End Sectors Size Id Type
/run/media/<username>/BlueSCSI/HD50_512.hda1 *       32 8388607 8388576   4G  b W95 FAT32

16. Mount the first volume (Assuming that you labeled the SD Card BlueSCSI and using the "Start" and "Sectors" values from above)

sudo mount -o loop,offset=$((512*32)),sizelimit=$((512*8388576)) /run/media/$(whoami)/BlueSCSI/HD10_512.hda /mnt/

17. Copy all your files into the /mnt directory

cp -r /path/to/my/samples /mnt/

18. Umount the volume

sudo umount /mnt

19. Umount the SD card
20. Plug-in the SD card to the BlueSCSI, hook up the BlueSCSI to SCSI port on the XV-5080 and then power up the XV-5080
21. Turn the XV-5080 on again, press [DISK] button
22. Press [F1 (Load)]
23. Press [F1 (Drive)] and scroll the "VALUE" knob until "SCSI1:" is highlighted on the "Drive" list on the right at the screen
24. Press [F6 (OK)] to confirm you are selecting that drive
25. Scroll the "VALUE" knob to select the folder containing the file to be loaded until the file to loaded is highlighted
26. Press [F6 (Load)]
27. Play the patches loaded on the location that were loaded.

Hope that helps others looking for a solution for their Roland XV-5080.

Thank you!