Akai S1000 / S1100 samplers

The question is, which Mac and which OS.

If you have access to a old Mac running Mac OS 9.x p.ex and the old Mac has a SCSI port, you´d been able to do 1:1 SCSI device copys of the content of connected SCSI drives w/o the neccessity to do a image at all and you also don´t need any sample conversion app or such.

I managed this last week w/ a Mac PPC, Mac OS 9.1 and Toast, having a Plextor SCSI CD/RW drive connected and a SCSI MO drive.
TOAST is able to do that kind of copy, recognizing a MO´s or harddrive´s SCSI ID and even there´s no application on the Mac recognizing the data of the harddrive or MO,- it does a 1:1 copy of anything existing under a specific SCSI ID and burns it directly to a CD inserted into a CR/RW drive adressed to another SCSI ID.
This CD, inserted into a SCSI CD-ROM drive (2x or 4x speed) connected to the sampler, will be recognized as a regular AKAI CD-ROM media by your AKAI sampler and the AKAI loads the volumes from that media.

It works here w/ AKAI and EMU samplers.

In addition, you can write images of these new CDs as a backup to any other media, HD or optical.

If you have a younger Mac w/o a SCSI connection,- it might be worth a try to insert a PCI (or PCIe) SCSI card to connect your SCSI drives.

Well, I did that w/ 600MB MO media which fits perfectly on a CD in one go per side of a MOD media and burned directly to CD.

You might get a prob if your SCSI harddrive is larger than the max a CD is able to store.
You´ll be forced to load a CD into your AKAI sampler for direct access of the data,- so the limit is somewhere between 600 and 700 MB depending on the CD media.
In fact,- the AKAI itself is able to access 512MB only.- means the max you should burn to a CD is 500MB.

Now the setup:

There are 2 SCSI busses always if a old Mac is connected in a SCSI chain and the internal bus of the Mac is named bus 0.
The Mac´s CPU is SCSI ID 0 always and the internal harddrive and CD/ROM or CD/RW drive are different SCSI IDs on bus 0,- ID 1 is the harddrive and ID 3 might be the internal optical drive.
Your external drives will go to SCSI IDs on bus 1 and this bus is completely independent from bus 0.

Your AKAI sampler incl. it´s internal drive will show up w/ independend SCSI IDs on bus 1.
The AKAI sampler will show you these SCSI IDs in the harddrive [disk] menue.
If you have a SCSI CD/RW already in the Mac, there´s nothing to do for the setup (see above > int. SCSI bus 0).
If the optical drive in the Mac is a CD-ROM drive, you cannot use it at all and have to connect another SCSI CD/RW drive to the ext. SCSI chain.
Take care, this will be set to any different SCSI ID apart from the AKAI and it´s internal drive´s SCSI ID.

There´s a app for Mac which is named SCSI director.
Once all drives and the AKAI are running and you boot the Mac, launch SCSI director after boot up of the Mac.
It will show you all the SCSI IDs of devices connected as "ready".
Write these SCSI IDs to a list and don´t mount the drives !

Close SCSI director and launch toast.
There´s a tab offering a pulldown menue and one of the options is "Gerätekopie" (in german),- I assume it´s something like "device copy" in the english versions of that app.
With the mouse, point to that entry while pressing and holding down the mouse button,- more options will appear.
Specify the SCSI ID source and the SCSI ID target to copy from/to, don´t change any other settings, insert a CD and press write or burn (I´m typing from my head here).
TOAST fills the buffer w/ all the data of the source device and burns directly to the target device.
You don´t need a fast CPU and/or much RAM,- I was fine w/ the 100MHz CPU inside the old Mac PPC and 48MB of RAM.
The result is a CD, readable by a AKAI sampler in this case, but it also works w/ other media for EMU or Kurzweil.

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--- In akaiS1000S1100Samplers@yahoogroups.com, "rafalrudawski" wrote:
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> Does someone know how to write a disk image of my internal Akai Hard Disk on Mac?
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> Just want to make a backups of my Hard Disk samples to be read from CD-ROM.
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> regards
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