(Please excuse me, if i choosed the wrong channel for this topic.)
I was happy to found a cheap Roland Video Canvas DV-7 two years ago. Perhaps you already know that it was a device for video-editing with a customized BeOS under the hood. So with all respect i kept the machine as it was.
Today i wanted to give it a test drive but it was rather short: The drive seems to be broken and is spinning up and down all the time. I was able to boot BeOS 5 Max (with safe mode video only) and Haiku as well. But unfortunately none of the sophisticated extension cards or in- and outputs is recognized …
Do you have any ideas, either to restore the original DV-7 or customize it for BeOS? I don’t think Roland would be a great help at this point
I added a compressed installed version of a DV-7 system to the archive page linked above for people with a unit lacking a working hdd, and wrote a short tutorial on how to install it.
Also added tar.gz archives of the home directory from the same DV-7 unit and from a DV-7R for people wanting to try an older version of the Edirol software.
Wow @lorezan this is very friendly and helpful. Thank you!
And by the way i learned something, because i’ve never seen these parts of the system.
I can remember only the Roland-GUI including some minimal interaction like clock.
So i’m very excited now
You’re welcome!
There are probably a few mistakes in my install guide, like the “unzip” command, you’ll have to remove the “-v” part.
Also all parts have to be done in safe graphics mode.
You can exit the Edirol app in the ctrl +alt+del menu, after restarting the desktop.
Haiku runs, atleast Alpha4 does, I haven’t tried other versions yet.
I didn’t try to use the dv7 drivers in Haiku yet.
Little update: Alpha3 doesn’t boot.
And I really messed up my temporary install mixing files from another professional BeOs running product!
