Akai S1000 / S1100 samplers

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Frank Langbridge" <frankl@...>
To: <akaiS1000S1100Samplers@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2006 6:29 PM
Subject: [akaiS1000S1100Samplers] Akai S1000PB and Apple CD300 drive


> Hello
>
> I have the items mentioned in the title
>
> I have plugged my cdrom into the back of the akai via the ib-103 and
> chen i press the disk hard button and then the HDSK soft button it shows
> me the options of
> Atari drive number: 0
> SCSI Drive ID: 5
> S1000 SCSI ID: 6
> SCSI Drive sector size: 512b or 1kb
>
> so it is seeing something........

Yes, - but what ???
The S-1000 ID has to be 6 anyway, ATARI drive No. is obsolete, - you dont
have a Atari_Supra drive connected to the S-1000 and the interface-card
would be a different one compared to the SCSI interface IB-103.

So, - what ID did you select for your CD-ROM drive in the S-1000s menue ?

Is the drive itself adjusted to the same ID-No. you selected in the S-1000s
menue ?
Is there a SCSI-ID selector w/ the drive ?
If not, open the case of the drive and check if it is "fixed jumpered" to
any SCSI ID and what ID this is...

This must be the No. you have to select in the S-1000s menue "SCSI Drive
ID".

If everything is selected and adjusted like I described and it won\ufffdt work, -

check SCSI cables for fault(s)...

The IB-103 can be faulty too

The Apple drive can be incompatible, even if most Apple 2x and 4x drives
work normaly...

> however whenever i try to load anything from the disk it says drive not
> ready and the lights on the cdrom flicker......

This means nothing... :-)
There are often and much lights flickering in the gear, - he, he...

> I have a kid nepro cd in the drive

Ifr this is a CD in S-1000/3000 format/image it must be readable if you have
latest OS for S-1000 and all SCSI related parameters and connections are
o.k. !

> any ideas ?

Did you ever try to connect another SCSI drive, p.ex. a HD, and did you try
to format and partition this HD by S-1000 routines ?
If  that works, your IB-103 and SCSI cabling as also ID-selection would be
o.k. and the fault must be the CD-ROM drive related stuff, - p.ex.:

different ID jumpered, incompatibility or maybe the drive is faulty.

No matter what, - a CD-ROM is an easy to get replacement.
Worst case would be a faulty IB-103 or S-1000 itself caused by hard or
impossible to get service parts, - you know...

S-1000PB might be different in SCSI anyway.
I have 3 AKAIs here, - S-1100, S-1000 and S-1000PB, - also different
SCSI-drives.

With a SCSI drive connected to the S-1000PB, it\ufffds display lits blue even
it\ufffds switched off... :-)

This is not w/ al the other AKAIs and the same SCSI drive.

Surprises all the time...

>
> Frank

PeWe