Hi David & Laurent
When I was looking at the 9.34 upgrade at Peter Wielks page some time ago it seemed that the upgrade was a big installation and a job for a technician, not for the end-user.
Is it still possible to get the upgrade and how easy is it to install? I'll consider the upgrade if it's fairly easy to install. Else I'm going to search on the web for some obsolete Fujitsu harddrives.
I guess Peter Wielks is the one to contact for the upgrade, right? but were is his web page to be found these days?
Best regards
Brian
"David J. Wilson" wrote:
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"
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
> 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.