Fairlight-CMI

Hi James.

All good here in Sydney but very busy working on the CMI-30A with Peter Vogel. We're exhibiting at the NAMM music show in LA january... More details soon...

The hardware side of using Compact flash cards as Series III storage is easy, if inelegant. I found a flash card interface to IDE on Ebay for about $2. I plugged this into an IDE to SCSI adapter, and just plugged this where the disc drive would be. 

My friend Joe Sleator did the programming, because he's smart that way. It involved mounting the old rev 9 Fairlight hard disc on a PC, then making an image of it, and transferring that to the CF card.

I mounted all my hardware on an unused Fairlight PCB, which I then stuck in the mainframe. I'll post a picture on the Photos page soon.

Regards,

Peter Wielk 




--- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, James Thomson <jamesthomson@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Peter,
> 
>    I hope all is well in Sydney.  Perhaps you could find the time to  
> tell us how to run our 9.34 CMI series 3 systems from compact flash ?   
> Many thanks.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> James
> 
> 
> On 24 Nov 2010, at 13:49, horiprod wrote:
> 
> > Hi Peter
> >
> > There is a solution to the problem of future-proofing old series III  
> > files on old (revision 5) machines, however it requires a relatively  
> > extensive hardware upgrade. Once a system is upgraded to the "last"  
> > revision 9.34, very many SCSI devices of up to 4 Gbytes can be used  
> > as storage. One can then archive from streamer or 140 Mbyte hard  
> > disc onto 4 Gbyte hard drives, or even Compact Flash cards both of  
> > which cost only a few dollars each...
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Peter Wielk
> >
> > Horizontal Production in sunny Sydney
> >
> >>
> >> Isn't this actually the same problem people have with their series  
> >> I, II and IIx?
> >> Archiving sounds and data...............
> >> Replacing the drives with 3.5" ones is an option, but we could do  
> >> WAY better. Come on guys, it's 2010, almost 2011.
> >>
> >> The upgrade for the lightpen and monitor is fantastic. (Not that I  
> >> need it, but surely in the future I or the next owner will be very  
> >> happy with it.)
> >>
> >> So, once again I call for help: "HELP". Please someone build a  
> >> modern storage solution.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> Peter Kersten.
> >>
> >> --------------------------------------------------
> >> Carpe Ductum ! - (Seize the tape !)
> >>
> >>
> >> From: Gordon JC Pearce
> >> Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2010 8:54 AM
> >> To: Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com
> >> Subject: RE: [Fairlight-CMI] What company brand is the streaming  
> >> tape drive in the III?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 10:11 +0800, David Crocombe wrote:
> >>> Emulex was the controller / adapter board from SCSI to QUIC24.
> >>> My tape drive was an Archive with a QIC24 interface.
> >>>
> >>> Be very careful about the tapes.
> >>> It may be a tape issue and not a drive issue.
> >>> Old data tapes can get the tape layer stuck together etc.
> >>>
> >>> I've spoken to a data recovery place here in Australia.
> >>> They advise that they bake the tapes before data recovery to stop
> >>> oxide shedding.
> >>> They also change the rubber drive band inside the data cartridge
> >>> itself before running it.
> >>>
> >>> Regards,
> >>>
> >>> David Crocombe.
> >>
> >> This is a recurring theme on the Classic Computer mailing list,  
> >> too ;-)
> >>
> >> Check out the archives on http://www.classiccmp.org/lists.html and
> >> search back through them. It might be worth contacting some of the
> >> people on the list that have had problems with QIC tapes to see how  
> >> they
> >> solved them.
> >>
> >> Gordon MM0YEQ
> >>
> >
> >
> >
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