Akai S1000 / S1100 samplers

Oh, I forgot. I have OS 4.40 eproms installed, maybe newer system allows to put bigger drives? Can You confirm this or not?

regards - raphael

--- In akaiS1000S1100Samplers@yahoogroups.com, PeWe <ha-pewe@...> wrote:
>
> Just a note ...
> 
> I have a external 640MB optical drive which works flawlessly w/ EMU 
> samplers and 640MB media,- but not w/ S-1000/ S-1100 and 640MB media !
> 
> With S-1000 and S-1100, the drive works w/ the 230MB medias I have here.
> 
> It´s by reason 230 MB optical media is formattet 512k and 640MB media 
> has a different formatting.
> You cannot re-format optical media w/ S-1000 series samplers.
> To be sure your 640MB drive works, 1st test it w/ media not larger than 
> 530MB and externally w/ S-1xxx series samplers.
> 
> How to get in a S-1000 HD:
> 
> Iassume, your internal HD is connected to the IB-103 internal SCSI 
> connector.
> In this case, there´s no other SCSI connector available internally.
> You cannot use 2 SCSI controller cards in the S-1xxx.
> 
> If the size of your optical drive fits the slot and dimensions of your 
> floppy drive, you could throw it in, but eventually have to decide to 
> remove the internal HD and use that SCSI connector for your optical drive.
> Use the same SCSI HD in this case.
> 
> 
> Am 18.12.2010 11:04, schrieb rafalrudawski:
> >
> > Hi all
> >
> > I just want to know, is it possible to put internal SCSI 
> > Magneto-Optical drive in Akai S1000HD? Does it work for someone? Drive 
> > is 640 MB MO SCSI (50 pin standard internal connector).
> >
> > thanks
> >
> >
>