No, it´s not recommended only for ext. removable media like Zip, Jazz, MOD and these Syquest cardridges.
There´s no difference of internal and external harddrives, so it was o.k. w/ your Seagate SCSI harddrive.
If there is a harddrive which has been formatted by another computer or any other device and/or there´s data on the media not related to AKAI samplers,- you have to format/arrange that drive, otherwise it would be unusable.
But it´s faster to format the drive w/ a Mac and using the arrange feature of the Akai if the message "bad directory" appears.
If you format w/ S-1000, it´s slower.
Both methods kill old data on the drive.
Am 24.04.2010 12:15, schrieb roschdo:
i also didn't know that it is not recommended to AKAI-format external HD's, i did it with mine, a very old 60MB seagate (from an old Atari ST) and it worked without problems.