B.t.w., I´ve found this site by searching more info about removable media.
My Fujitsu Magneto Optical Drive runs w/ my Akais S-1000, S-1000PB and S-1100 now,- but you can use 3.5" removable media 128MB / 230MB/ 540MB only.
Important is 512 bytes per sector.
Larger MODs, 640MB - 1.5GB (3.5" and 5.25") run only w/ Akai S-3000XL and higher versions.
Syquest 44MB and 88MB SCSI drives are no problem.
Harddrives only limit is readable/adressable size,- 510MB.
I´m using old 1GB SCSI harddrives formatted to 520 MB then, rest of space is wasted, so don´t buy large drives.
S-Series samplers cannot differenciate between floppy disks and any HD or removable media, it just only dumps data into 512 bytes sectors in 20 / 30 / 40 / 60MB partitions of any media.
Avoid AKAI formatting w/ any media,- just only use "arrange" for partitioning.
I was fine w/ formatting Syquest 44/88MB media and harddrives on a old Mac and using "arrange" w/ the Akai to partition to media.
You cannot have more than 1 Akai sampler connected in a SCSI chain, but up to 7 drives.
All has to be SCSI-1
PeWe
Am 23.04.2010 11:20, schrieb roschdo:
hi there!
i own a S1000 (latest OS) and have a hard disk connected via scsi, which
works fine. now i'd like to add an external cd rom drive to the setup to
be able to load ready made programs to the system. i have no clue what
works here. so i have some questions:
-are there any recommendations about which drive to use?
- i assume i can hook it up to the hard disk via scsi (daisy chained)
and give it just another id device number?
- could someone please also recommend any changeable hard disk or maybe
point me to where i can read more about it. i'd like to get one of these
too and just know vaguely that they're from syquest (seem to be good,
no?) but i actually don't know anything regarding recommended size,
medium or whatever.
maybe some of you have some experience with these? thanks for reading!
best,
roger