Fairlight-CMI

--- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, "chaworth012000"
<christopher.haworth@u...> wrote:
>
Hi,
Great info; but does this help identify drives on the SCSI bus(?)

CJ

> Hopefully this will help:
> 
> Device IDs
> 
> Fundamental to the way a disk is referenced is the SCSI ID that it
> (the device) uses.
> 
> Your boot Disk will have SCSI ID 0. Other hard disks can be assigned
> to SCSI ID's 2 and 4 and 6. The Internal Tape drive used SCSI ID 1,
> with the WORM drive taking SCSI ID 3.
> 
> The Fairlight then assigns IDs to these devices as /scx0 where x = the
> SCSI ID; hence your boot disk will be /sc00 and a second disk assigned
> to SCSI ID 2 will be /sc20. You can access the devices from the shell
> command prompt using the command 'chd /scx0'
> 
> Partitions
> 
> Each disk device can (or will be) partitioned into a number of
> partitions called either /k partitions or /c partitions. This is
> similar to the way in which a PC disk can be split into c: d: and e:
> etc. partitions. (There is also the concept of Logical Units or LUNs,
> but this can confuse matters, so I'll leave it for now).
> 
> K partitions hold the system files and mirror the size of the original
> 8" floppies (~1MB). Hence it is usual to find at least 3 /k partitions
> on a hard disk, each containing the files from one of the 3 Rev x boot
> floppy disks.
> 
> C partitions on the other hand  are where your sound data is stored
> and hence represent the bulk of a disk. You can have multiple c
> partitions on one physical disk as well, useful if you want to
> segregate your sounds. 
> 
> In terms of how these partitions are assigned, the nomenclature
> refrences the physical disk that the partition is assigned to. So for
> /sc00, the partitions will be named as follows:
> 
> /k000
> /k001
> /k002
> /k003
> ....
> /c000
> /c001
> /c002 etc
> 
> and for device /sc20, the partitions will be:
> /k200
> /k201
> /k202
> ...
> /c200
> /c201
> /c202 etc.
> 
> All of the partitions can be accessed from within the CMI software
> (using the odir command; for example odir /c200/fairlight_library
> opens the back-up library on my second disk), or from the shell using
> the chd command. 
> 
> If you need any further info, please shout.
> 
> Whilst on the subject of Series III disks, I would like to say a huge
> thank you to Klaus Michael Indlekofer for his cmios9 tool and updating
> the tool to reach a state where it is able to be used to export and
> import complete /c partitions from other disks. I have now used this
> to back-up my Rev9.34 boot disk and image this to 3 other drives so I
> can now sleep well at night knowing my sound data is backed up to my
> PC and copied to a number of other disks that I can use in my Series
III.
> 
> Regards,
> Chris.
> 
> --- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, "dirtyhalo007"
> <dirtyhalo007@y...> wrote:
> >
> > I am new to my CMI III/MFX and can fully access one drive, but do
> not know the ID of a 
> > second drive I know to be installed, what is the operation to
> Identify the names of the 
> > drives in the system? 
> > 
> > Anyone who can help me with this, I'd greatly appreciate it. This
> may be fundamental, but 
> > I'm just learning and could use some friendly advice.
> > 
> > Peace.
> > 
> > Andrews
> > 
> > DIRTY HALO www.dirtyhalo.com
> >
>