[sdiy] USB,SCSI,MIDI

[Louis van Dompselaar]

A third option (which I use in my S6000) is to use a SCSI-IDE converter 
and an IDE drive.  I have a 30GB internal IDE drive in mine.  Works 
great and doesn't get warm even with the fan at "low" setting.

> 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).