Akai S1000 / S1100 samplers

On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 07:30 +0000, reverbrick wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I need to make CD's out of AKAI's HD, but my only computer having SCSI 
> ports is an old pc being only able to run linux.
> There are a lot of posts on the net on how to do that using toast under 
> mac but not so much for linux users.
> Have anyone tried a command called "dd" to dump a SCSI disk 
> into "burnable" image?
> Will it work?
> What should be a parameters?

It depends on how the Akai sees the disk.  If it has the same format on
a CD as on the hard disk, DD will work just fine.

I've dd'ed the contents off an Emax II disk and burned them to CD with
cdrecord, and it worked perfectly well.  You'll probably have to name
the image file <something>.iso so it gets written as an ISO file, even
though it's not actually in ISO9660 format.

Probably something like "dd if=/dev/sda of=test.iso bs=512" should work.
If not, try bs=1024 or bs=256 but I'm *almost* sure that the Akai uses
512-byte blocks on disk.

Gordon