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Ok it’s round 1 to the clone!
I was rather hoping that by now you would have seen at least part 3 and maybe part 4 of Revenge of the Clone. Basically my attempt to clone an SSD into this MUSE Receptor.
But alas with all these things not every thing is as simple as it seems. And at this point I should thank Andy for spending 2 hours on the phone with me the other night talking all things receptor. I think he said he had 4 of these devices from the REV C to the Quattro.
Muse Receptor - Status of the Project
The project is on hold at the moment while I source some more bits. But this is what I have established so far.
Alternatively you can watch the video of this blog
The Samsung SSD is not recognised by the MSI MS-7142 motherboard that is in the MUSE receptor. I have tried all kinds of permutations in the BIOS and nothing I do will allow the SSD to be shown as an available drive.
So I thought I have a defective drive. So I get my USB SATA reader that has been sitting in its box for a number of years and plug this into the back of the Muse Receptor using one of the USB ports. Plug in the SSD and bingo the BIOS can see the drive. Then I plug the drive into my Windows machine using the USB. Format is and can read and write to it. Faulty drive ruled out.
Next I though I had purchased a bad SATA interface cable. As you guys know I bought this all in one cable. And in my other machine the SATA power connector comes straight from the power supply so I couldn’t test the cable there. So I ordered a new seperate SATA data and SATA power cables. Plugged the drive in using these no joy.
Then following the conversation with Andy, I took the SATA drive out of my DELL machine and plugged this in the MUSE using the original SATA cable and low and behold the BIOS recognised it and it would have been happy to boot into Windows.
Conclusion there is something in the Samsung SSD that stops the BIOS being able to recognise it. And at this point I can only think that this Samsung is built to SATA 3 standards and while they are meant to be backwards compatible, some thing is not.
So I am now on the search for a SATA 1 SSD, it might need to be second hand though!
I was able to clone the Muse Receptor hard disk using the SSD in the USB caddy. I did think that I had banjaxed the original disk a few nights back undertaking this process. But the disk got itself into a pickle with all the reboots and I was able to solve the problem by running the linux fixed disk utility.
The Receptor will boot from a USB port, but the cloning process did not copy the boot partition correctly and therefore would not boot from the SSD in the USB caddy no matter what I did.
So there you have it the status so far.
But I haven’t finished with this. But it may take a few weeks before I can finish filming parts 3 and 4 of this series.
I have learnt some stuff along the way and I thought I’d use the remainder if this video to share those tips with you.
Keyboard to work in the BIOS
When I acquired the Muse Receptor the previous owner gave me a wired USB Keyboard and Mouse. And these have been working well with the Receptor in normal operating mode. However, if you want to change certain settings in the BIOS or in the boot loader then you have to have a PS/2 adaptor. Luckily I have one of these because I have a hypervisor which exhibits the same behaviour.
Wireless Keyboard and Mouse
Yes the Muse Receptor supports a wireless keyboard and mouse. Just plug the wireless transmitter into one of the USB sockets on the back and they work fine with the unit when it is operating normally. For transparency I have been using a wireless set from Jelly Comb. Upside down USB socket Yep the USB socket on the from of the Muse Receptor has been installed upside down. Not sure it this is a quirk or feature? I have been told that this is for the early versions that used the ILok USB key. The front socket is very narrow and allows little more than a connector anyway.
Muse Receptor Operating System Kernel
For those that are interested, the Receptor is built on a RED HAT Linux kernel. I also suspect that this is the RTAI (Real Time Application Interface) extension to allow it to operate in real time. But I could be wrong. I am not a Linux engineer, but this is how the OASYS and Kronos work.
Boot Performance
When I got my Muse Receptor, I kinda accepted that the speed at which it booted was the speed it booted. But as part of this exercise I have made some changes that were suggested in the user groups and this improves boot time considerably.
These are the changes you might want to make.
As you boot the Receptor hit <DEL> to enter the BIOS.
Select <Standard CMOS Features>
Use the the arrow keys to move to the <Floppy Drive> entry. If this is not set to NONE press Enter and select NONE.
This tells the BIOS not to spend time trying to find the Floppy Drive which is not attached
Select <Advanced BIOS Features>
- Select the <Boot Sequence Option>
Set the first Boot Device to be <Hard Drive> and 2nd and 3rd to be disabled
ESC to return to the previous menu twice
Again this tells the BIOS not to try and boot from other media interfaces that don’t exist.
Select <Advanced BIOS Features>
Select <Full Screen LOGO Show>
- If this is not disabled. Disable it.
This pauses the Boot sequence while a BIOS LOGO is put to screen
Click <Integrated Peripherals
Select <AC97 Controller> and if not disabled, disable it
The Receptor uses its own audio interface card and therefore doesn’t need to expend resources on the motherboard audio interface.
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Jon describes himself as a frustrated musician with a passion for the electronic instruments that help him and other musicians be creative. He started playing keyboards in his late teens and re-ignited his passion and built a new studio following his seperation.
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