Akai S1000 / S1100 samplers

Thanks for the answers:
 
- knob: my S1000 has actually got knobs but the paint on one of them 
is quite worn and I would like to restore it to its former glory. It 
once belonged to Bros, allegedly!
 
- floppy: not sure that it's the drive. I can load and save 
samples/progs without any problems. I wonder if it's the Akai 
application that has a problem.

What's an EPROM burner btw? I found two binary Eprom images on this 
group, how do I use them?
 
- scsi: true, there is no internal SCSI slot on the card. I've 
checked. I might go for an external SCSI drive instead. The come up 
very frequently on eBay; I've got one for my S2800i and one for my 
Esi-4000.

Incidentally, if anyone has an S2800, I recommend the 32Mb upgrade 
(sold by some company in Germany; e-mail me for details). As you may 
know, the S2800i cannot be expanded beyond 16Mb normally. The only 
thing is, it now plays up when naming items using the front panel 
buttons, which isn't much of a problem because the data knob does 
the trick. I must have fried something when soldering.

Gilles