Fairlight-CMI

Hi James,

I haven't tried booting from the card since I'm rather averse to 
opening up the mainframe unless it absolutely needs it :-). 
I'd bet the speed of the CF card makes a difference; I just tried a 
plain Lexar 32MB and the speed was OK, about what I'd expect from an 
older SCSI drive. Maybe one of the newer 40x or faster CF cards 
would give better results though. I haven't tried a 2.5" hard drive, 
but that's a good idea - there's no reason it wouldn't work.

The SCSI to IDE adapter I used was this one: 
http://www.memorylabs.net/acaecscsitbr.html

The only downside to that adapter is it doesn't support ATAPI, 
meaning the CF card would not be a removable device. Thus to remove 
the card in order to put it in a PC you'd have to shut down the 
Fairlight (assuming it's a bad idea to shut down devices in the SCSI 
chain while the computer is running).

Cheers,
Rob

--- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, James Thomson 
<jamesthomson@m...> wrote:
> Hi Rob,
> 
>  Good to hear from you. Have you actually managed to boot your CMI 
from the
> compact flash card ? How fast does the CMI seem to run ? Is it 
noticably
> slower when changing pages etc while operating from Compact 
Flash ? Which
> SCSI >> IDE convertor do you use ? It would be nice if you could 
share some
> more info about this. Have you tried a 2.5" hard drive at all ?
>  This sounds like a great way to browse sound libraries on the PC 
as well as
> share sounds with others. Thanks.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
> James Thomson
> 
> Magic Audio Co.
> The Studio
> West Hampstead
> London NW2 3RJ
> U.K.
> 
>  
> 
> On 31/10/04 11:46 pm, "titojay02" <robncait@m...> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 
> > I successfully used a compact flash memory card with my rev9 CMI
> > using a SCSI to IDE
> > converter plugged into one of these
> > http://www.acscontrol.com/Index_ACS.asp?
> > Page=/Pages/Products/CompactFlash/IDE_To_CF_Adapter.htm. Very
> > quiet :-). I could then take the CF card and plug it into my PC 
via
> > a USB CF reader and extract files with CMI Explorer.