Akai S1000 / S1100 samplers

Hey guys I don't have a replacement drive yet for the s1000 but I will  
this summer. Here is a tip I don't use the floppy in fact I put in an  
internal Iomega SCSI zip 100...this works great!

Ok...the HD S1000 has a special SCSI card for internal drives but the  
truth is the standard SCSI card found in every S1000 can be used with  
a simple mod.

Look at your SCSI card and you will see a spot where a 50 pin IDE  
header is missing, did some research and found out that this is active  
and simply just needs the header installed to work!

I installed the header on the SCSI card and put in an Iomega zip 100  
SCSI drlive, the zip drive uses the same 5v and has the same power  
connector as the old floppy drives.

You have to make your own 50 pin internal IDE ribbon cable, you will  
also find you can still use the out board SCSI connector as well.

I use this setup for live shows on 2 s1000 units and it works great, I  
take advantage of the auto SCSI sample loading feature that few people  
use. It only works with SCSI and your sequencer calls the shots over  
to the S1000 via program change messages.

This works great because you have 100 Meg zips to load from and if  
your HD crashes durring a show your screwed, but with the zip you can  
just pop in your backup disc.

Rich at Route 66 studios

Sent from my iPod

On Mar 31, 2010, at 5:12 PM, Steve Dracup <avsurgery@...> wrote:

> If your drive is at fault:
> I looked into replacement floppy drives for the S1000 a while ago  
> when I _thought_ mine had died, and I found from
> my online research at the time two drives that are apparently  
> compatible:
>
> TEAC FD235HF & Chinon FZ357 (?)
>
> I also have this one noted, but I think it's the one in my S1000:
>
> ALPS DFP723F03A
>
> Unfortunately I don't remember if it was a simple pin reversal  
> compared to a
> standards PC drive, but it rings a bell  :)
>
> I found some on ebay at the time
>
> Also check http://akaiscsifaq.digidude.net/akaifaq_floppy.htm
>
>
> Hope this helps,
> Steve
>
>
> On 31.03.10 8`47 pm, PeWe wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> 1.)
>> S-1100 and S-1000 have these options
>>
>> 2.)
>> I guess it´s the disk drive !!!!
>> I had the same case in the 90th and before it happened, data  
>> written to disk appeared corrupted when reading.
>>
>> Better look for a replacement,- check Route66Studios for  
>> replacement disk drives.
>> http://www.route66studios.com/drives.html
>> I see S-900,- maybe it fits the S-1000.
>>
>> If you´ve found a replacement drive,- move over using SCSI ( simpl 
>> e SCSI, not SCSI 2 or SCSI ultrawide or such) harddrives and/or MO 
>>  drives,- just only using the floppy drive to transfer your floppy 
>> -disk library to the harddrives and backup on the MO drive.
>> Once done,- forget the floppys at all.
>>
>> Even version of OS in eproms doesn´t matter anymore ´cause you can 
>>  simply copy the latest OS to he harddrive and boot from there.
>>
>> Advice:
>> Don´t believe, every HD floppy drive will work in a S-1xxx series  
>> sampler,- so you probably won´t get it cheap.
>> Once,-I replaced a floppy drive in my S-1000,- it was definitely a  
>> TEAC,- but I forgot the model number, so some investigation is  
>> needed.
>>
>>
>> Am 31.03.2010 19:27, schrieb Mike Yates:
>>
>>>
>>> either 2 things I can think of
>>>
>>> 1. you're selecting 'low'  and not 'high' although i have an s1100  
>>> so im not sure if the s1000 has this option.
>>> 2. it's your disk drive
>>>
>>> what OS you running?, as in, the OS on startup without an OS disk.
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: a p
>>> To: akaiS1000S1100Samplers@yahoogroups.com
>>> Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 6:10 PM
>>> Subject: [akaiS1000S1100Samplers] S1000 Floppy issue
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>  Hey everyone. I have a weird issue with my floppy drive. I try  
>>> and format discs to use with my S1000, and when its done  
>>> formatting, I try to save something to it, and it says unformatted  
>>> disc. I have tried this with about 5 diff discs, all fresh  
>>> formats, to no avail. I have nothing here, to test if it can load  
>>> sounds or anything, so am definitely open to ideas. Anyone?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> alexP
>>>
>>
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