Fairlight-CMI

Hi Guys,

 I recently picked up a Iomega internal SCSI Zip drive. I have just
formatted it on my CMI 9.34 series 3. This seems an ideal format for trading
sounds to me. Will a SCSI Zip drive work with CMI Explorer on the PC / MAC ?
 I have an internal Zip drive bay for my Powerbook so I was hoping that I
could save some sounds onto it from the CMI and then insert it into the
Powerbook running Real PC or SoftWindows and be able to see the contents
while running CMI explorer. I am thinking I may need to use an external SCSI
Zip with the Powerbook to see the CMI files. The internal Zip on the
Powerbook is ATAPi not SCSI. The Zip I have is a removeable media bay
specifically for the 2000 Pismo Powerbook.
 We need to work on a solution for CMI owners to just send Zips in the post
to other users.
 Any thoughts?

Regards,


James Thomson

Magic Audio Co.
The Studio
West Hampstead
London NW2 3RJ
U.K.

On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 17:16:47 +0100, James Thomson
<jamesthomson@mac.com> wrote:

Hi James,

> I recently picked up a Iomega internal SCSI Zip drive. I have just
>formatted it on my CMI 9.34 series 3. 

Didn't you have an MFX2 unit running 11.40 ? If so, I'd appreciate
your opinion on my MFX 2 keyboards question.

>sounds to me. Will a SCSI Zip drive work with CMI Explorer on the PC / MAC ?

I don't know, because I do not know the format of the disk.

>The internal Zip on the
>Powerbook is ATAPi not SCSI. 

This is merely an electrical interface issue, the disks are the same.
If you can read these disks on a SCSI drive, you can read them on an
ATAPI drive.

> We need to work on a solution for CMI owners to just send Zips in the post
>to other users.

Is there a network interface card in the CMI ? I'm talking ethernet or
similar with TCP-IP. Because if there is, you can connect to your
PC/MAC and transfer files back and forth with FTP as an alternative
since most of us already have a PC or MAC.

>Regards,
>
>James Thomson
>
>Magic Audio Co.
>The Studio
>West Hampstead
>London NW2 3RJ
>U.K.

Regards,
Harald Feldmann.