Akai S1000 / S1100 samplers

Hi,

If you have a S1000HD, you better change the internal hard drive. Try
to replace with the same type. I bet you have a time out problem when
booting with the jazz drives. They are not the fastest in accessing
the disk at startup. Or put the OS on the floppy.

Floppy: maybe dirt on the heades, or an allignment problem? I have
never had these problems. Look in the messages list. Some members of
this newsgroup have tried to change the floppy drive.

Rgds,

Frank

--- In akaiS1000S1100Samplers@yahoogroups.com, "crustypaul"
<crustypaul@h...> wrote:
> 
> Hello all, i just got an S1000HD with a very dead internal hard drive 
> (about as big as my head) but a with brand new backlight and screen 
> for a grand total of £38!!
> Anyway, i've linked it up to my Jaz drive and finally got the v4.40 
> operating system onto it with a bit of trashing around through MS-DOS 
> (why don't AKAI make it work on XP?) but i seem to be having a bit of 
> trouble booting it up to 4.40 from the jaz drive. Sometimes it works 
> and sometimes it ignores the OS on vol-1 partition-A and just boots 
> up to 1.10 although i can access the Jaz drive normally when this 
> happens. Is this likely to be something dodgy with the SCSI card? Any 
> ideas?
> One other question, would anyone recommend a certain brand of floppy 
> disk and are DD disks more reliable than HD in S1000's? My floppy 
> drive seems to be very picky about what brands of floppy its willing 
> to use, about 50% of the time i'll format a disk and it'll say 
> something along the lines of 'format completed but disk may be 
> unreliable'. Format it again and it seems to work fine. I also had a 
> lot of trouble finding a floppy that the AKAI would actually boot the 
> new OS from so i could get it onto the Jaz drive. New floppy drive 
> time?