Hi Peter !
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Am 23.04.2010 15:55, schrieb Ullrich Peter:
I doubt they are and I´m pretty sure it won´t work even there might be exceptions.The fast CDROMs like the 40max work on the Roland S-760 but I am not 100% sure if they
were for the Akai S1000.
It´s a good choice to look for (Sony), Teac and Apple CD-Rom drives @ 2x/4x speed for the S-1000/ S1100 samplers because is guaranteed these will work.
If you use any faster drive, it would not increase read speed at all, the S-1xxx series samplers are very slow anyway.
I have several CD-ROM drives and CD/RWs around here which work w/ Roland, EMU and Kurzweil but not w/ Akai S-1xxx and it would be too much trial ´n error to find out why,- especially for any user who needs to buy used @ebay and before the purchase.
TEAC and Apple 2x/4x run for sure.
The brand of the complete drive doesn´t guarantee anything, AFAIR, there must be SONY or SONY standard compatible drives inside,- so you´ll never know before it´s open, you know.
I am not sure if the Syquest 200MB can also write the 44MB and 88MB media. I also found no
info on that here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SyQuest_Technology or here http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/SyQuest
:-(
Here they say only \u201cbackwards compatible\u201d: http://www.thefreelibrary.com/SYQUEST+200MB+5.25-INCH+REMOVABLE+HARD+CARTRIDGE+DRIVE+IS+BECOMING...-a017122799
But according to this page it can read, write and initialize the 44 and 88 media but not the 44s and 88s media:
Well, read this articles now,- thx for the links.
If you read 44s and 88s, these seem to be not different types of media compared to the 44 and 88, just only the plural off 44 and 88 cardridge,- shortform, you know.
Indeed,- 88c means combined drive which is able to read, write and initialize 44 and 88 media, but only format 88.
Same with the larger ones,- if it comes to formatting,- only the matching media can be formatted (200/270 p.ex.).
ditto
Ciao
Peter
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