Fairlight-CMI

I agree with Laurent, you should upgrade the 6.03 machine
to 9.34 just so you can have up to 4GB-size SCSI hard drive support.
then you can use a whole slew of cheap, commodity 1GB, 2GB, 4GB SCSI
hard drives with your CMI.  I bought four of the Seagate 
Barracuda 4GB drives (cheap $$ !) and slapped them into an old SUN 
external drive case, looks cool and works great with my 9.34 CMI

I have a 4GB SCSI internal drive in my CMI for booting and
storing sounds too.

the CMI-41 card is faster than the 33 too.

David



--- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, "brian_ronn" <brian_ronn@y...> 
wrote:
> 
> Hi Laurent
> 
> Thanks for replying to me. I appreciate it :-)
> 
> On bootup my Fairlight says this:
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------
> 
> OS 9, Level 2, V5.14FK, 26. october 1988
> 
> IOpack V3.22
> 
> Generel release 6.03.
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------
> 
> 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.