Thanks, Chris! I never thought of the spin-up time as the possible problem, although it makes sense. It's good to know that it may be the cause and nothing else is wrong with the way I have it set up. I can handle that issue, since loading the OS takes almost no time, and I have about 120 floppies of samples and programs that I want to load into this, so I don't tax the floppy drive so much. Thanks again! Wayne
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Hi, It may be just that the spin-up time of the harddrive is too slow and the AKAI is looking for the disk before it's up to speed and thus giving the error. I had this trouble when I experimented with putting an old SCSI HD in my Akai S2000. I gave up in the end for 2 reasons, firstly was the problem you have which I rectified by switching on the hard-drive before the sampler so it found the OS, and secondly as it kept blowing the fuses by drawing too much current so i had to use a separate PSU in the end for the harddrive. In the end I just SCSI chained it to my S3000XL which already had a Compact Flash reader in it. Chris.
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