Hi Harald,
For some Series III that is possible,
however there is still the problem of the diskdrives. There will come
a time that they need replacement and it's already hard and costly to find
a replacement these days.
For series I, II and IIx it's not an option (they
don't have a HD). To my knowledge there was only one CMI IIx that had a HD built
in. Please correct me if I'm wrong ;-) (It replaced the righthand
floppydrive). Also, when you read the manual, there is talk about a capacity of
a few dozen floppies that could reside on the HD. Well, that's not enough for
me.
I found info about replacing 8 inch drives with
5.25 ones. Problems that are there:
1: You need the right 5.25 drive, not all are
compatible.
2: You need a conversion from the 50 pins connector
to a 34 pins connector.
A new problem is that 5.25 floppydrives are
getting harder to obtain also...
Replacing it by a 3.5 inch drive has an additional
problem:
It spins at a rate of 300 RPM's asto 360 RPM's from
the 8 and 5.25 drives.
That would require a software-update.
One of the sites on this subject: http://www.s100-manuals.com/Disk-drives.htm
Please mind that this info is not about a
Fairlight, so there might be aditional problems.
In the archive there is talk about using a
Flashcard via a SCSI to IDE adaptor.
That's interesting, but not the most elegant
solution. And again, this is only for a series III.
Now to modernize the Fairlight, lets devide this in
two seperate problems:
1: Improving the harddisk capabilities. (Larger
storage, preferably a Flashcard) for ALL series I, II, IIx and III.
(MFX?)
2: Improving (replacing) the
Floppydrives.
As for point 1: I'm working on that. If you have
suggestions, please let me know.
As for point 2: There is probably an affordable and
very interresting solution. (I just got mail and let you know more
asap).
Cheers,
Peter Kersten
(By the way: Harald: don't forget to remove your
battery !!!)
----- Original Message -----From: Harald FeldmannSent: Friday, September 28, 2007 5:14 PMSubject: Re: [Fairlight-CMI] Possible new way to help saving precious disks......... (And welcome new member)Hi Peter,
Couldn't we just hook up harddisks to the scsi port and save them ?
otherwise use a scsi controller on a PC and hook up the disk to image them.
Haven't tried any of these yet (no need)
I'm in the Netherlands.
Regards,
Harald.
> Hi all,
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> In my search for improvements to store CMI data I think I hit the jackpot.
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> I found a very nice and capable person that might have the solution
> for us. It will enable us to backup our disks with help of a modern
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> More info will follow.
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> Are there any CMI owners near Austin, TX?
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> Also I would like to welcome a new member........
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> Cheers,
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> Peter Kersten
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