But yeah most of this sounds correct,i tell you what the S1000 may have crap scsi but the Yamaha A3000 equals it for slowness and down right bloody awkwardness with which SCSI drive it will see,I gave up with mine and just used an external Zip drive.
On 4 Jul 2013, at 00:14, PeWe wrote:
We´re talking SCSI on lowest level w/ S-1000.
512MB is the max an S-1000 can access and 512byte/sector is what it can read/write.
AKAI S-1000 doesn´t do in-depth formatting, is more "soft" formatting and "arrange" modes.
Pre-formatted ZIP-100 disks work.
There´s more pre-formatted media out there,- MOD p.ex. ...
I have ZIP 100, Jazz 2GB and 230MB/512byte/sector MOD as well as 640MB/1024byte/sector MOD media.
Only ZIP 100 and 230MB/512byte/sector media works w/ S-1000.
520MB/512byte sector MOD media would work too,- but I don´t have.
The larger media beyond 520MB and w/ 1024byte/sectors works only w/ EMU EOS samplers here, not AKAI S-1000/3000 series samplers.
When using SCSI harddrives and/or Syquest removable media drives (44 /88 MB),- the S-1000 does the formatting w/o issues.
You can use larger SCSI HDs, but 520MB is the accessable limit and the other space will be unused.
I use 1GB SCSI harddrives formatted to 500MB.
You can pre-format SCSI HDs and removable media drives w/ old Mac PPC machines (OS 8 -9) and SCSI Director application.
Don´t try latest OS machines, regardless of Mac or PC,- AFAIK,- it won´t work.
I use a PC (Win XP) and an Adaptec SCSI card,- actually I don´t remember the model number,- which works fine.
It has a mini-50-pole SCSI connector.
You need that connector on one end of a SCSI cable and a 50-pole Centronics on the other end of the cable.
That way, I´m able to use the computer and Synthax /Hybrid Arts 19" SCSI and optical as well as Syquest drives loaded w/ AKAI samples for transfers to the machines (S-1000 / S-1100/ EMU E-64 / Win XP computer).
According to Steinberg Wavelab ...
Wavelab 4.01b is the latest supporting SCSI and it works only w/ EMU E64 directly (Sampler to PCI/SCSI card).
With S-1000, you need to transfer all data to SCSI drive 1st, then connect that drive to the computer w/ SCSI PCI card attached and then copy data from that drive into Wavelab.
Floppies to be used in S-1000 can be only formatted by the S-1000 itself,- that´s my experience.
As a reference,- I own S-1000 and 2x S-1100 as 1st owner.
Had a S-1000PB too which is now gone.
Am 03.07.2013 23:50, schrieb Phil Wood:
I must admit I didn’t know that you shouldn’t format ZIP disks. I thought about connecting both drives, but I don’t have a suitable cable for disk drive to disk drive. Also witout digging into my room full of antique PCs (Not easy, it is also full of building materials!) I don’t have a PC with a suitable SCSI connector. I haven’t found an Akai compatable formatter which works with 64 bit Windows 7, if there is one out there please let me know what it is, I would like to try that option, even just to format some floppies