Fairlight-CMI

Hi Peter,

To clarify, CMI Explorer will only read and write Fairlight 
drives/discs that are connected to your PC - you cannot currently 
connect the Fairlight mainframe itself to the PC. Therefore, using 
an external hard drive with expendable data on it is what I 
recommend. Please only use the current CMI Explorer with drives 
whose data you can afford to be corrupted.

Any SCSI controller should work AFAIK, though some older hard drives 
used in Fairlights can't be recognized by a PC. I think this is 
because they weren't fully SCSI compliant, and they're more in the 
rev5-6 timeframe.

Hope that helps,
Rob Jarrett
(the CMI Explorer guy)

--- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, "Peter Connelly \(Core Design 
Ltd.\)" <PeterC@C...> wrote:
> Excellent. I will try the 2940 I have installed. Either that or an 
older 1505/10 I have knocking about somewhere...
>  
> Cheers,
> Peter
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: feldmann@x... [mailto:feldmann@x...]
> Sent: 20 April 2004 13:00
> To: Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [Fairlight-CMI] SCSI Card on PC for CMI Explorer
> 
> 
> > Do I need any particular SCSI card/cables to connect my 
Fairlight to a PC?
> > I assume a Centronics 50 Pin - SCSI 2 plugged into any SCSI card 
will
> > work, for example?
> 
> I'm pretty sure a Future Domain external connector will not work, 
because
> it (seemingly) has a different pin layout from Adaptec. I think 
the older
> Adaptec cards will work best. They are also recommended for 
Kurzweil.
> 
> > Kind regards,
> > Peter
> 
> Best regards,
> Harald.