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Elia Orselli
Film Handler

Posts: 42
From: Imola, Bologna, Italy
Registered: Feb 2008

posted 09-06-2018 05:53 AM

Hello,
I've found a DTS6D and I'd like to keep it working. Does anyone knows if is still possible to find at least a v.1.46 chip? Unfortunately this unit has still an older chip and the famous Toshiba cd drivers.

I've seen that in the warehouse section there's mostly everything about DTS processors, but I'd like to have a (iso) copy of the Empirical Test Disk.

Thanks a lot,
Elia

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Mark Gulbrandsen
Resident Trollmaster

Posts: 16657
From: Music City
Registered: Jun 99

posted 09-09-2018 08:59 PM

Gosh, I had a bunch of DTS 6D parts until a couple months ago. I may have saved some of them and I will look in storage next time I am there. To use faster CD Rom drives or DVD drives you need an adapter board that mounts to the rear of the drives and digitally slows down the data output of the drive so the player can actually read it. Just a short time ago I had a 6D that had all the updates dine to it and that included a new sub mother board and new main mother board that were much smaller than the original board was. I may have saved a picture. I had never seen one modified this way before, but it was for sure done at the factory.

Mark

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Gordon McLeod
Film God

Posts: 9532
From: Toronto Ontario Canada
Registered: Jun 99

posted 09-10-2018 09:25 AM

The adapters was a convertor to change the IED to SCSI and a aditionaly board controlled the speed and when the v1.46 was youed one of the dos chips was removed

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Greg Routenburg
Expert Film Handler

Posts: 178
From: Toronto, ON, Canada
Registered: May 2003

posted 09-13-2018 08:43 AM

I might still have the EEPROM bin file of the 1.46 TC firmware somewhere but unless you can get drives for it, you're pretty much out of luck. Even IDE CD-ROM drives are becoming very hard to come by these days.

If you want to use IDE drives, you need to get your hands on three ACARD AEC-7720U SCSI-IDE bridge cards to mount to the back of the drives. You'll also need the little ISA card with the AQRM chip on it if you don't have it already.

With that bridge adapter, any IDE CD-ROM drive up to 52X will work.

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Gordon McLeod
Film God

Posts: 9532
From: Toronto Ontario Canada
Registered: Jun 99

posted 09-13-2018 10:45 AM

With the scsi adapter on them they also support the use of DVD drives

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Blaine Young
Master Film Handler

Posts: 477
From: Kirkland, WA, USA
Registered: Sep 2006

posted 10-08-2018 10:50 AM

I've updated my DTS-6 and DTS-6D units with the Pioneer slot-load SCSI DVD drives. They worked great until the theater converted to Digital.

I have a 1.46 chip and can probably burn a duplicate, if I can ID the type of chip and find one.

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