Akai S1000 / S1100 samplers

Hi PeWe!

>If you use any faster drive, it would not increase read speed at all, the S-1xxx series samplers are very slow anyway.

This is right. They are very slow. Another disadvantage of the faster drive is that the faster they are the louder they are.
But sometimes it is easier to get quite fast drives for cheap than the older slower drives. And I had some problems with those older drives.
Not because of compatibility but due tu dust on the lenses. And with cleaning CDs you can only clean one lense side..
Normally this helps a lot but on some drives it is not enough - also the other side of the lense needs to be cleaned.

>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.

Same here. Too many drives here and not enough time to check them out.

>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.

You are 100% right. Sorry, I read the article not exactly and so I didn't catch the plural :-O

>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.).

But now I have to ask if it is necessary to format these medias, or if an initialisation is enough.
If you read the Akai FAQ they say that you "never ever" should format exchangeable drives.
http://akaiscsifaq.digidude.net/akaifaq_removable_media.htm

I am no SCSI expert so I don't know what is initialize. Is it just the function to make the drive known to the connected SCAI master
or is it like partitioning an already low level formatted media.

Ciao
Peter

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