I use an old win XP machine with Adaptec scsi card (really cheap on ebay) and Recycle 1.7. Although you can't send the loops to the PC from a S1100 ( you can from a S3000XL), the S1100 is capable of receiving them + the program information and key mappings for the chopped samples. The only drawback in recycle 1.7 is that stereo samples are converted to mono.
I use wave lab 4.0 to send stereo samples and loop markers to the S1100. Works a treat. But I think thats as good as your gonna get with the S1100.
Chicken systems Millennium is brilliant for reading akai disks and exporting them to Pc folders. From there you can load to the S1100 via wave lab and/or Recycle!
Millenium will only see S3k samplers though, so no hope of remotely programming earlier S1100/S1000 sampler unfortunately.
Ive started using Recycle to create a program on the S1100 by dumping the mono sample to it, then fire in the stereo samples via Wavelab and edit the SMP2 page and the panning settings - its a quicker way of creating a program, I find..
Hope that helps
Rich