Fairlight-CMI

Hi Peter,

If you use CMI Explorer in "read only" mode, you should be safe to 
use your external HD. This would allow you to copy and audition 
sounds from your HD to your PC. You could then also "rip" an image 
of your Fairlight hard drive to your PC and play around with writing 
files to it, and later write the image back to a HD once you get 
ahold of one.

Also, I encourage folks to check out Klaus Michael Indlekofer's 
cmios9 app that was just uploaded. It allows you to read and write 
files from Fairlight disks via a command-line-style interface. It 
handles QDOS, OS9, and MDR-DOS partitions.

Regards,
-Rob

--- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, "Peter Connelly \(Core Design 
Ltd.\)" <PeterC@C...> wrote:
> Hi Rob,
>  
> Got ya! I'm glad that got cleared up before I connected. At the 
moment, I don't have any expandable drives unfortunately. My 
external drive has a shed load of libraries on it...
>  
> I suppose I could buy another compatible external HD and house it 
in the unit Peter Wielk gave me (it houses 3).
>  
> Cheers,
> Peter
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: titojay02 [mailto:robncait@m...]
> Sent: 20 April 2004 19:51
> To: Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Fairlight-CMI] Re: SCSI Card on PC for CMI Explorer
> 
> 
> Hi Peter,
> 
> To clarify, CMI Explorer will only read and write Fairlight 
> drives/discs that are connected to your PC - you cannot currently 
> connect the Fairlight mainframe itself to the PC. Therefore, using 
> an external hard drive with expendable data on it is what I 
> recommend. Please only use the current CMI Explorer with drives 
> whose data you can afford to be corrupted.
> 
> Any SCSI controller should work AFAIK, though some older hard 
drives 
> used in Fairlights can't be recognized by a PC. I think this is 
> because they weren't fully SCSI compliant, and they're more in the 
> rev5-6 timeframe.
> 
> Hope that helps,
> Rob Jarrett
> (the CMI Explorer guy)
> 
> --- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, "Peter Connelly \(Core 
Design 
> Ltd.\)" <PeterC@C...> wrote:
> > Excellent. I will try the 2940 I have installed. Either that or 
an 
> older 1505/10 I have knocking about somewhere...
> >  
> > Cheers,
> > Peter
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: feldmann@x [mailto:feldmann@x]
> > Sent: 20 April 2004 13:00
> > To: Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com
> > Subject: Re: [Fairlight-CMI] SCSI Card on PC for CMI Explorer
> > 
> > 
> > > Do I need any particular SCSI card/cables to connect my 
> Fairlight to a PC?
> > > I assume a Centronics 50 Pin - SCSI 2 plugged into any SCSI 
card 
> will
> > > work, for example?
> > 
> > I'm pretty sure a Future Domain external connector will not 
work, 
> because
> > it (seemingly) has a different pin layout from Adaptec. I think 
> the older
> > Adaptec cards will work best. They are also recommended for 
> Kurzweil.
> > 
> > > Kind regards,
> > > Peter
> > 
> > Best regards,
> > Harald.
> 
> 
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