The Syquest 44MB drive cannot
read/write 88MB media.
IIRC (I have several of these drives but rarely use now) - the 88MB drive can read 44MB media but doesn\ufffd format/write (on) these.
No clue about the 200meg drives.
Have in mind the drives and media cardridges aren\ufffdt very reliable.
It\ufffds risky to buy used media cardridges because the internal media-disk rotates and gets worn out over time.
The drive itself has movable parts too and like a cassette tape recorder player.- the "azimuth" should match.
Media written on one drive is sometimes not fully readable on the other or worst, not accessable at all.
You should look for Synthax, Hybrid Arts and Syntec syndrives @ebay eventually.
I have a bunch of these in 2 HU and 1HU configurations.
I\ufffdm using SCSI harddrives (mostly 1GB formattet to 500meg/512 sectors) for AKAI, larger ones fpr EMU.
Sooner or later, other modern solutions should replace these,- make backups befor the SCSI drives fail.
My favourite backup is Fujitsu 3.5" MOD (magneto optical drive),- works flawlessly w/ AKAI S-1000 & S-1100 w/ Verbatim 230MB/512 sector optical media.
For EMU EOS samplers, same drive works excellent w/ larger media too, Verbatim and Fujifilm 640MB/2048 sector optical media.
Old Apple (w/ caddy !) SCSI-CD-ROM drives work flawlessly w/ AKAI S-1000/1100.
TEAC 2x / 4x SCSI-CD-ROM drives too ! Some 8x also ...
Never use anything faster than 8x,- better not more than 4x speed,- for AKAI S series samplers.
EMU, Kurzweil, Yamaha, all work w/ larger HDDs and faster CD-ROM dives and burners.
When you have an old PC (Pentium IV/ Win XP p.ex.) w/ working PCI slots, you can use a older Adaptec (2404 ?) SCSI card w/ mini 50-pin SCSI connector using a cable "mini 50 > Centronics 50" to connect SCSI drives to the computer,- or use a old Mac PPC 7500 or G3 beige w/ SCSI connector and the SCSI director application to manage SCSI drives.
You can make 1:1 SCSI copies of AKAI- and other CD-ROMs w/ the "Toast" and/or "Roxio" applications.
Make images (ISO) from AKAI CD-ROMs as backups on PC.
The EMXP application for PC now deals w/ a range of vintage samplers,- AKAI S-1000 included.
http://www.emxp.net/
P.
Am 08.05.2014 01:07, schrieb racciolo@...:
IIRC (I have several of these drives but rarely use now) - the 88MB drive can read 44MB media but doesn\ufffd format/write (on) these.
No clue about the 200meg drives.
Have in mind the drives and media cardridges aren\ufffdt very reliable.
It\ufffds risky to buy used media cardridges because the internal media-disk rotates and gets worn out over time.
The drive itself has movable parts too and like a cassette tape recorder player.- the "azimuth" should match.
Media written on one drive is sometimes not fully readable on the other or worst, not accessable at all.
You should look for Synthax, Hybrid Arts and Syntec syndrives @ebay eventually.
I have a bunch of these in 2 HU and 1HU configurations.
I\ufffdm using SCSI harddrives (mostly 1GB formattet to 500meg/512 sectors) for AKAI, larger ones fpr EMU.
Sooner or later, other modern solutions should replace these,- make backups befor the SCSI drives fail.
My favourite backup is Fujitsu 3.5" MOD (magneto optical drive),- works flawlessly w/ AKAI S-1000 & S-1100 w/ Verbatim 230MB/512 sector optical media.
For EMU EOS samplers, same drive works excellent w/ larger media too, Verbatim and Fujifilm 640MB/2048 sector optical media.
Old Apple (w/ caddy !) SCSI-CD-ROM drives work flawlessly w/ AKAI S-1000/1100.
TEAC 2x / 4x SCSI-CD-ROM drives too ! Some 8x also ...
Never use anything faster than 8x,- better not more than 4x speed,- for AKAI S series samplers.
EMU, Kurzweil, Yamaha, all work w/ larger HDDs and faster CD-ROM dives and burners.
When you have an old PC (Pentium IV/ Win XP p.ex.) w/ working PCI slots, you can use a older Adaptec (2404 ?) SCSI card w/ mini 50-pin SCSI connector using a cable "mini 50 > Centronics 50" to connect SCSI drives to the computer,- or use a old Mac PPC 7500 or G3 beige w/ SCSI connector and the SCSI director application to manage SCSI drives.
You can make 1:1 SCSI copies of AKAI- and other CD-ROMs w/ the "Toast" and/or "Roxio" applications.
Make images (ISO) from AKAI CD-ROMs as backups on PC.
The EMXP application for PC now deals w/ a range of vintage samplers,- AKAI S-1000 included.
http://www.emxp.net/
P.
Am 08.05.2014 01:07, schrieb racciolo@...:
\ufffdNow that is EXACTLY the kind of answer I was looking for! :) Thank you very much for that and for sharing your knowledge.
So could all those drives read the various sizes of "floppies" (44, 88 and 200mb) or would each drive only read its specific sized disk?
I'll keep my eyes out for one of those Syquest drives.
Let me know if you think of any other pre-1990 SCSI goodies :)