Akai S1000 / S1100 samplers

Hi,

Following is a part of the SCSI faq of the digidude website. 
Hopefully it is helpfull to you:

(taken from: http://akaiscsifaq.digidude.net/)

"There are many compatible SCSI CD-ROM drives for the AKAI but 
unfortunately I can confirm more of the older ones than the more 
recent. These are: 

- Pioneer DRU-124x 4xSpeed
- Pioneer DR-U12x Speed (let's say all Pioneer models do:)
- Panasonic 2x all models
- SONY 2x/4x all models
- Hitachi 4x
- Toshiba 4x XM-5401 TA (also mounted on CD3000)
- Toshiba 3401 SCSI
- Toshiba XM5701 12x (Can anyone confirm this 100%?)
- MAC external 2x CD drive (panasonic/matsushita)
- Plextor 12x, 20x,32x, 40x... (they all work but remember to set the 
*BLOCK* jumper on the CDR/RW units!)
- Apple CD-300E
- Apple CD-600E
- Apple CD1200 (8x Internal)
- Panasonic LK-MC606BP (Matsushita 508)

CD-Writers:
Matsushita CDR 7502
Matsushita CR-8005A
Smart & Friendly 2006 CDR 
Philips Omniwriter CD-RW external 
Yamaha 4x write (CDr400)
Panasonic CW-7502 CDR (4x8)
Ricoh ?
Waitec ?

There are surely many other drives that work; please email me so I 
can add them to the list. What I can surely say is that OLD NEC CD-
ROM drives *DO NOT WORK* with AKAI CDs. This due to a firmware 
problem in the CD loading routine so when you try to read the 
contents of the CD from your AKAI you get a HD READ ERROR message 
(512bytes per sector handling problem). New NEC drives, on the 
contrary, seem to have less problems, but I suggest you always test 
before you buy."

Please let us know if it works.

Regards,

Frank