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For info , 
the SDX will only read any of SCSI drives as 70 M° at the most (due to hardware limits ) .
It doesn't matter what capacity of storage your HD can cope with ; only 70 M° will be used !!!
except a smaller one of course .

I used up to 3 SCSI removable HD in the same time ; 
1 internal SYQUEST 105M°
& 2 external 100M° Zip drives 

& it works very well !

hope it helps, 
Patrice . 



----- Original Message ----- 
From: <gordon@gjcp.net>
To: <Simmons_Drums@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 11:00 AM
Subject: Re: [Simmons Drums] sds info?


> > what os does the sdx have ?can you add modern scsi like "raid"
> > drives?is there anyone that knows anything about electronics ?was
> > wondering if there was anyway to modify the sdx or other units?can the
> > midi in mtx9 be modified?   again thanks matt
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> You should be able to add newer SCSI drives.  However, the SDX may only
> use up to a certain size, depending on how "clever" the operating system
> is.
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> SCSI drives use linear sector numbering, with the controller (these days
> it's on the drive, back then it may have been a separate board) taking
> care of mapping sector numbers to cylinder, head and sector numbers,
> mapping out bad blocks, etc.  If the software was designed with only a
> couple of drives in mind, it may not request the disk information properly
> and will just assume that it's hooked to a 20M drive, for instance.
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> Of course, you could remove the hard disk and attach it to a SCSI adaptor
> in a PC to read the contents.  You would probably not be able to mount it
> but you could use dd to copy an image of the disk, which you could write
> back to another disk - handy for making backups.
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> Are there any floppy disk images about for the SDX?  Is there any
> documentation on the software used?
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> Gordon.
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