RE: MIDI files problem on a Mac: "Logical end-of-file reached..."

["MIKO" <m-i-k-o@attbi.com>]

You wanna know the truth... from a former associate director of IS- and I'm
too tired to say too much- maybe tomorrow I'll try to really answer the
question- but- well- Macs have had a problem I've seen at least a few 
times-
hard drive failure- for all the solidity of the O/S, I hope that Apple has
improved the stability of the internal drives themselves...  perhaps a UNIX
base for the new O/S will resolve that although- in truth- I've seen hard
drive failure everywhere- but only in an Apple did we have to send the
machine in... where I was working...

-----Original Message-----
From: sine@zerocrossing.net [mailto:sine@zerocrossing.net]
Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 3:14 PM
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Subject: Re: MIDI files problem on a Mac: "Logical end-of-file reached..."

Actually, I did run Norton before my second try, to no avail.

thanks again for all the help everyone!

Mark

Greg Kucharo wrote:

>    Also, nominally MacOS Error -39 is a disk error. If you have a
> utility like Norton or TechTool you probably want to run it on the
> drive to look for disk corruption.
>
> On Thursday, October 10, 2002, at 01:48 PM, Greg Kucharo wrote:
>
> >   Hrm.  If the file was originally produced on Windows, and it sounds
> > like it, a Mac program may have problems reading the file as Windows
> > and Mac file formats are different. Even if the file is a "portable"
> > format like a MIDI file. It's probably not actually corrupt, but
> > obviously DP and others are having a problem.
> >   MacOS 9.x have a PC/Mac file conversion control panel called File
> > Exchange. You might check if it's enabled and configured. It may or
> > may not do anything helpful to this problem.
> >
> >
> > On Thursday, October 10, 2002, at 12:10 PM, sine@zerocrossing.net
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Hey gang,
> >>
> >> the other night I as attempting to upgrade the OS on my Roland
> >> MC-307.  I
> >> downloaded the files (standard MIDI files in a .sit archive)
> >> unstuffed them,
> >> and loaded them up into Digital Performer.  They would either freeze
> >> my Mac, or
> >> cause the 307 to freeze every time.  The result?  Now I have no OS on
> >> my
> >> MC-307.  Boots up to a blank screen.
> >>
> >> Called Roland tech service and they led me to a MIDI player utility
> >> called
> >> Q-midi and they resent me the files in case mine were corrupt.  When
> >> I tried to
> >> open them in Q-MIDI I got an error that said, "Logical end-of-file
> >> reached
> >> during read.  Error -39"  Same thing with Cakewalk's Metro5.  Same
> >> thing with
> >> the original files I downloaded, and the files that Roland emailed
> >> me.  Funny
> >> thing is, the quicktime player will actually play the files, but I
> >> can't divert
> >> that output to my Fastlane USB MIDI interface.
> >>
> >> Any ideas?  I'm running Mac OS 9.2.2.  There's PC MIDI players and PC
> >> drivers
> >> for the MOTU Fastlane MIDI interface, and I'm going to try them, as
> >> well as the
> >> OSX drivers, tonight.  Before I did, I was just wondering if anyone
> >> has had
> >> similar problems with MIDI files on a Mac.  Roland said they send
> >> these files
> >> out all the time with no problems.  Mac and PC.  Weird.  They were
> >> happy to
> >> have me bring the unit in to an authorized service center for the
> >> upgrade at no
> >> cost, but I thought I'd give it one more time before losing the unit
> >> for a
> >> week.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Mark Sottlilaro
> >>
> >