Fairlight-CMI

Hi Rob,

Good to hear from you. I would be very interested to see if you can boot
from the Compact Flash card. I see that they make 4 gig compact flash cards
now. Would you mind emailing me the latest version of CMI explorer ? I am
buying Virtual PC today for the Mac and would like to try and get it working
on my Apple G3 Powerbook. I also want to try the CMI control software which
replaces the Preh keyboard and graphics pen. Have you tried CMI control
software yet ?
 I still haven't made it to the West Coast but I am hoping to be in
Victoria,B.C in February. I hope all is well !

Regards,


James Thomson

Magic Audio Co.
The Studio
West Hampstead
London NW2 3RJ
U.K.




On 2/11/04 7:07 am, "titojay02" <robncait@msn.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> 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).