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Am 10.05.2013 03:30, schrieb wonder_bug101:
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I just got a secondhand Akai S1100 sampler with Eprom Version 4.3.It came with a whole bunch of floppies, but somehow the sampler will not load them and the volume does not show either.
Old sampler, old floppy drive, old floppies ...
There can be many reasons why the sampler doesn\ufffdt load content, but I\ufffdd expect the floppy drive to be the culprit of partially damaged disks.
So I tried to format a floppy but it keeps coming up with the error message disk is write protected, even though the switch on the floppy is not on the write protect area and I tried different floppies, but can't get that to work.
double check the floppy drive is working correctly.
I have also tried to hook up a Iomega 2gb Jaz drive via SCSI and also an old Apple CD600 rom which is working fine on my other sampler, but nothing is showing up on the Akai even though the SCSI ID has been set to 5 inside the sampler and on the Cd rom drive itself.
AKAI cannot read any media formattet other than 512k sectors and larger than 520MB !
AKAI is picky on most CD-ROM drives.
The internal SCSI ID for Akai is set on 6. I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong or if it's the sample itself.
AKAI S-1000/ S-1100 internal SCSI ID is a fixed\ufffd setting, it has to be ID #6.
I can sample and record into the sampler and the effects etc all seem to be working fine.
Be happy it does.
I just bought a startup disk in case there is something wrong with the Eprom ?? but have to wait til it arrives.
When the sampler samples and all the editing and FX work, I doubt you have a system / OS issue.
I know older sampler can be finnicky with SCSI etc but not being able to format a simple floppy is a bit scary. Has anyone else heard of this problem or know how to fix it?
replace floppy drive.
Does it format a harddrive connected ?
Have in mind AKAI doesn\ufffdt do in depth formatting,- it\ufffds some kind of soft format and the other method is "arrange" only.
It should format empty DD and HD floppy disks but might have problems w/ other pre-formatted floppy disks.
When reading data pre-loaded floppy disks, the azimuth of the floppy drive matters too if the disks were made by using the floppy drive of another AKAI sampler.