Akai S1000 / S1100 samplers

----- Original Message -----

From: paypah

To: akaiS1000S1100Samplers@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2009 3:06 AM

Subject: [akaiS1000S1100Samplers] s1000 Floppy issues

Hi all. I hope somebody can help me. I have an s1000kb (tank!!) v2
firmware that turns on ok and lights up. The existing floppy drive and
2 other floppies I have tried in it's place don't seem to want to
work. I Formatted a os 4.4 disk using windows 98 and all seemed to go
well but the s1000 doesn't want to recognise it. The usual "format not
recognised" and "trying a different density" and then the next stage
is when I try to format I get "disc is write protected" I am doing
this all under os 2 and 1.44 meg HD discs. Do I need to initially use
720 kb discs under v2 to upgrade os then load os in and try
formatting? I only ask as I haven't got a 720 kb disc and would go
hunting only if somebody thought it may solve the problem.
I have of course made sure the write protect on the disc is off!!!
Good to see there is a group of people out there using the s1000 and I
hope to join you soon
Cheers
Andy

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Andrew Halsall 
  To: akaiS1000S1100Samplers@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2009 1:50 PM
  Subject: Re: [akaiS1000S1100Samplers] s1000 Floppy issues



        Hi there
        Thanks for the info.
        Am I right in thinking that AKAI floppy drives are specific hardware to the system then and that generic pc floppy drives will not work? That maybe why i'm having problems
        As for the scsi card. No the s1000 I was given doesn't have a scsi drive or hdd so weighing up the costs it is perhaps not the best of ideas to be spending much money when I could perhaps purchase a s2000 with 8 outs and memory for less than £100

        cheers anyway 
        I will have to do a bit of budgeting

        Andy

                Sounds like your Floppy drive is shot, I too have the KBS1000 but I converted the floppy drive to a ZIP 100 drive. I can set you up with the correct items to make the change, do you have SCSI? You will have to send your SCSI card to www.Route66studios. com for the SCSI card update, they alos have the KBS1000 4.40 ver eproms.

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----- Original Message -----

From: formals777

To: akaiS1000S1100Samplers@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 3:40 PM

Subject: [akaiS1000S1100Samplers] Re: s1000 Floppy issues

Hi,

It is a specific model of floppy drive which was also used in pc's.
Look around message 632. There we discussed the floppy replacement.
You can probably find them on ebay. If you do a search on 'floppy' in
this forum - you will probably find other entries.

Rgds,
Frank

--- In akaiS1000S1100Samplers@yahoogroups.com, "Rish" wrote:
>
> Yes no standard floppy drive will work in the s1000
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Andrew Halsall
> To: akaiS1000S1100Samplers@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2009 1:50 PM
> Subject: Re: [akaiS1000S1100Samplers] s1000 Floppy issues
>
>
>
> Hi there
> Thanks for the info.
> Am I right in thinking that AKAI floppy drives are specific
hardware to the system then and that generic pc floppy drives will not
work? That maybe why i'm having problems
> As for the scsi card. No the s1000 I was given doesn't have
a scsi drive or hdd so weighing up the costs it is perhaps not the
best of ideas to be spending much money when I could perhaps purchase
a s2000 with 8 outs and memory for less than £100
>
> cheers anyway
> I will have to do a bit of budgeting
>
> Andy
>
> Sounds like your Floppy drive is shot, I too have
the KBS1000 but I converted the floppy drive to a ZIP 100 drive. I can
set you up with the correct items to make the change, do you have
SCSI? You will have to send your SCSI card to www.Route66studios. com
for the SCSI card update, they alos have the KBS1000 4.40 ver eproms.
>
> I
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