When I first turn on my Boss BR1600 CD, it says “CD drive updater, waiting for disc” and won’t do anything, it won’t even power off. What do I do?
This means the OS on the BR1600 is either missing or corrupt. You will need to reload the OS. You can download the latest OS from Roland’s website, type BR-1600 in the search at the top of the page, and then go to the download link.
The downloaded file will need to be burned to CD with a program that can read .prg image files, Roland’s website has a link to a free program which will do this.
Then, once the image is burned to CD, simply inserting the CD when it asks the question will load the OS onto the machine.
The current OS is 2.0, released in April of 2005.
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