Akai S1000 / S1100 samplers

Hi there.

I've nearly completed rebuilding my Akai 1100. The remaining issue is that its got a dead FDD. I was thinking about replacing it with a Fujitsu MO drive using an internal scsi ribbon cable. However I have read somewhere in a scsi hell FAQ that the board is self terminated which would possibly interfere with running just an internal scsi device would it not?

MO drives are my choice over compact flash. I live in Japan and MO drives are cheap plentiful and reliable. Media is also cheap. It also makes sharing disks between my samplers easier.

Many thanks in advance for any confirmation or suggestions.

Regards T.

The akai sampler itself is terminated.

You can use the internal SCSI connector and external SCSI connector at the same time (at least I do.)

I have build in a Iomega zip drive, which is connected to the internal SCSI connector (termination set to "off")

At the same time I have an external SCSI CD-rom player and an external SCSF CF reader connected. The last external SCSI device is set to termination on.with a termination block

Please be aware that you must put the SCSI connector of the SCSI flatcable "the wrong way around" in the SCSI connector of the Akai SCSI board. (at least with my S1100 and most other Akai S samplers)

Cheers