Akai S1000 / S1100 samplers

Must have been the s1000PB as i have put the card in my s1000 and it
works a treat thanks for all your help though

Frank

On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 19:34 +0200, pewe wrote:
> >>>
> ----- 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 The S-1000 ID has to be 6 anyway, ATARI drive No. is obsolete, - you dont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�t 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�s display lits blue even
> it�s switched off... :-)
> 
> This is not w/ al the other AKAIs and the same SCSI drive.
> 
> Surprises all the time...
> 
> >
> > Frank
> 
> PeWe
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