Akai S1000 / S1100 samplers

Hi all,

i bouht S1100 last week and I am planning to replace backlight and
install scsi drives. I bought it because it was cheap 110 euros, but
it sounds so analog that I decided to keep it. 

I already tryed to update OS using utility from akaipro site, but
floppy I created doesn't work. Do I need real MS-DOS to create a
floppy, because in WinXP I get warning message (something about direct
access to floppy)... after pressing ignore it starts writing to
floppy, but when I load it with akai (at boot time) it doesn't work.
It says soething about unknown format. Loading existing os 2.09 from
floppy written with sampler works ok. Anyone already successfully
updated os. Is floppy needed every time when sampler is turned on or
only once?

One question about user interface. Does all AKAI samplers have user
interface like S1100? What I don't like is that I have to select midi
channel for each program and not program for midi channel. So if I am
searching for some sound that I want on midi channel 2 I need to go
through all programs and set it's midi channel to 2 and if I dont like
that sound I need to turn it off and go to next program and repeat
this procedure and so on for each program.. It that true? I hope there
is an easier way to do that. On my Kurzweil 2500 I just choose midi
channel.. and than scrool through programs... much faster..

Ok.. last question.. can I access internal scsi cdrom drive on my pc
with akai if I connect AKAI and pc?

Thanks in advance..

Miha