Akai S1000 / S1100 samplers

Thanks for the advice on the OS storage 
to HD.  My S1100 arrived with an internal 
HD and OS4.30 on a floppy disk.  Amazingly,
noone ever loaded the OS on the internal
HD.  Anyway, doing it was as easy as you
said and now I boot to OS4.30 really fast.

--- In akaiS1000S1100Samplers@yahoogroups.com, "tbiggz" 
<infarmah@h...> wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the info, I really appreciate it.
> 
> --- In akaiS1000S1100Samplers@yahoogroups.com, "aneurysmhook" 
> <aneurysmhook@y...> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi again, 
> > 
> > Actually yes it can! My machine currently automatically loads the 
> > final OS from the SCSI zip disk. As long as you put the OS on the 
> > first partition of the drive it should load automatically on 
> powerup. 
> > 
> > This is just temporary until I get enough time & energy to take 
it 
> > out of the rack and put in the 2 eproms of the last OS which I 
> > have. :)
> > 
> > --- In akaiS1000S1100Samplers@yahoogroups.com, "tbiggz" 
> > <infarmah@h...> wrote:
> > > 
> > > Wow thanks for the info!
> > > 
> > > Last thing: I wonder is if the S1100 can 
> > > be booted from the SCSI HD.  I know some
> > > Akai machines do not allow the OS to 
> > > boot from SCSI (even my ASR10 does that!).
> > > 
> > > Do you load your S1100 OS from the SCSI 
> > > HD?
> > > 
> > > Thanks again...
> > > 
> > > --- In akaiS1000S1100Samplers@yahoogroups.com, "aneurysmhook" 
> > > <aneurysmhook@y...> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > Yes, the effects are standard on an S1100. The final S1100 
> O.S. 
> > is 
> > > > 4.30. I don't know if the S1000 OS would work but I wouldn't 
> > think 
> > > it 
> > > > necessary at all. 
> > > > 
> > > > The S1100 also came standard with different A/D D/A 
converters 
> > than 
> > > > the S1000, an SCSI board, and 8 output board with effects 
> > > send/return 
> > > > loop possibility..although this function doesn't work if 
using 
> > the 
> > > > digital output.
> > > > 
> > > > I've also read about the HD recording after version 2.0 which 
> > Akai 
> > > > did charge for when it was first released. The final O.S is 
> 4.30 
> > > and 
> > > > can be loaded via floppy or zip if you don't have the eproms 
> of 
> > the 
> > > > final version. Version up kits are still out there too. I 
have 
> a 
> > > zip 
> > > > and cd-rom connected via SCSI, but no HD. So I can't comment 
> > about 
> > > > that part. Hope this has helped a bit.
> > > > 
> > > > --- In akaiS1000S1100Samplers@yahoogroups.com, "tbiggz" 
> > > > <infarmah@h...> wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > > 
> > > > > Do the effects come standard on the 
> > > > > S1100?
> > > > > 
> > > > > It seems the standard S1100 had many 
> > > > > standard features: The only option I 
> > > > > know of was the digital I/O board.
> > > > > Were there others?
> > > > > 
> > > > > Also, how does the S1100 O.S. compare 
> > > > > to the S1000 O.S?  
> > > > > 
> > > > > I mean, there's Version 4.40 for S1000, 
> > > > > does that also work on the S1100?
> > > > > 
> > > > > I thought the S1100 requires 2.0 ROM upgrade 
> > > > > for some features like HD recording.  
> > > > > I'm really confused.  Is there someone who 
> > > > > knows the details here?
> > > > > 
> > > > > Thanks!