[sdiy] USB,SCSI,MIDI

[Seb Francis]

Akai S5000/6000 use normal FAT32 format.  Their SCSI implementation is 
pretty iffy but works well enough just to plug in a hard drive.  You can 
fit an internal hard drive (at least this is certainly true for the 
S6000) which saves messing around with external cases and power.  
Whichever way you do it you need an older SCSI hard drive.  50-pin 
SCSI-2 to be precise.  Sure to be some around on the second hand market.

Another option is an external SCSI ZIP drive which used to be pretty 
common (I might even have one somewhere .. ask if you're interested and 
I'll have a look).

Seb


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>> bill bigrig wrote:
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>>>  Mainly, I want to know if i can take a SCSI device
>>> Akai 5000, or Roland VS-2480-cd, and use USB storage.
>>> Or is it better to try finding SCSI hard drives used?
>>> Can they be bought new? Not to mention the cable
>>> issue(large/small) I have a CD-ROM for the Akai 5000
>>> to run my Mellotron sounds. That's all I've done. but
>>> if I collect samples  and load them in, go to all the
>>> trouble of keyboard mapping sound effects etc. Can it
>>> be converted over to USB or should I just fish for
>>> SCSI drives and cables.
>>>   
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