Fairlight-CMI

Hi Laurent

Thanks for replying to me. I appreciate it :-)

On bootup my Fairlight says this:

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OS 9, Level 2, V5.14FK, 26. october 1988

IOpack V3.22

Generel release 6.03.

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Inside the cardholder I can find a card in slot CMI-33 but no print 
in the metal bar with CMI-41 and of cause no card.

On the back of the machine I have a centronics 50-pins SCSI 
connector which connects to an external SCSI case with a Fujitsu 
M2261SA harddrive. This Fujitsu drive is also a SCSI device.

Laurent, shouldn't I be able to replace the Fujitsu drive with 
another 50 pin SCSI harddrive like the Micropolis 1624 SCSI drive
(668 Mb) or a Quantum fireball SE SCSI drive (1 Gb) and format it 
with the scsiformat command or am I missing something here?

Best regards

Brian  

--- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, Laurent Lemaire 
<llemaire1@f...> wrote:
> 
> Hello Brian,
> 
> If your CMI is a rev 6.03 (with a CMI-33 wave processor) and not
> an upper release level (with the CMI-41 wave supervisor), the only
> hard-disks which are compatible are not SCSI one... The hard-disks
> were ESDI with a converter board from Adaptec. This board was able
> to drive two ESDI disks and was seen as one SCSI device by the CMI.
> 
> You have three solutions to your problem:
> - find some ESDI disks and an Adaptec board to add some external
>   disks to your CMI.
> - Use the DC600 tape streamer or the WORM to archive your data.
> - Upgrade your CMI hardware & software to a newer release which
>   support standard SCSI devices...
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
>     Laurent.