Fairlight-CMI

Hi Everyone - 

I'm having a problem here and hopefully someone here knows the answer.  

I've got my MFX3+ on my Kitchen table right now, because I'm trying to 
figure out how to get a couple of things exported for use in Pro Tools.

I've got a 2 gig Jaz drive hooked up, but the cartridge that I'm using 
is a 1 gig.

I've tried to format the drive both on my Mac (OSX 10.4) and on my PC 
(XP) and it's just not working.

The Fairlight is seeing the drive, but I can't write anything to it.  
Currently I've got it formatted on my PC as a FAT16 volume using the 
Iomega tools.

The Fairlight is reporting it as 2048MB.  I assume that this is likely 
part of the problem.  (The Fairlight is seeing a 2 gig drive and 
assuming that I'm using 2 gig media?)

Also, I'm not really all that sure what the issue is with SCSI 
termination.  Should I be using an external terminator or just the Jaz' 
on board termination?

Someone has to know the answers.  Please help so I can get this thing 
out of the kitchen before my wife kills me.

Thanks,

Tim

Hi,

do you test this disk with KMI software ?

JB

Le 10 juil. 07 à 21:25, modularmoog a écrit :

> Hi Everyone -
>
> I'm having a problem here and hopefully someone here knows the answer.
>
> I've got my MFX3+ on my Kitchen table right now, because I'm trying to
> figure out how to get a couple of things exported for use in Pro  
> Tools.
>
> I've got a 2 gig Jaz drive hooked up, but the cartridge that I'm using
> is a 1 gig.
>
> I've tried to format the drive both on my Mac (OSX 10.4) and on my PC
> (XP) and it's just not working.
>
> The Fairlight is seeing the drive, but I can't write anything to it.
> Currently I've got it formatted on my PC as a FAT16 volume using the
> Iomega tools.
>
> The Fairlight is reporting it as 2048MB. I assume that this is likely
> part of the problem. (The Fairlight is seeing a 2 gig drive and
> assuming that I'm using 2 gig media?)
>
> Also, I'm not really all that sure what the issue is with SCSI
> termination. Should I be using an external terminator or just the Jaz'
> on board termination?
>
> Someone has to know the answers. Please help so I can get this thing
> out of the kitchen before my wife kills me.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tim
>
>
>

Hi Tim.

I have an MFX3+, as well as a bunch of older MFXs and CMIs, and I've 
never had much luck with Jaz drives. Do yourself (and wife) a favour 
and just use an external SCSI hard drive. You can pick them up on Ebay 
for a few dollars. When a Fairlight "sees" a drive, it's an extremely 
low-level detection, on the lines of "there's a SCSI device ID2 
attached", it says nothing about having the correct format.

Good luck!

Peter Wielk

Horizontal Productions in sunny Sydney