Akai S1000 / S1100 samplers

Ya I don't have the SCSI Zip 100 drive mod on the site, but I have put them in both if my S1000 units and my KB S1000.

You are correct on the OS loading from media, what's nice about the rom version I'd that it's fast and you will never need to worry about a floppy again.

Rish

Life is like MIDI, your either IN, OUT or THRU.


On Jul 28, 2011, at 7:21 AM, PeWe <ha-pewe@gmx.de> wrote:

> If you boot a S-1xxxx series sampler w/ a connected SCSI HD, MOD or Zip (w/ inserted media containing the latest OS) already running,- S-1xxx sampler loads the latest OS from that media overriding the older OS in ROM.
> Same behaviour like it is w/ a floppy disk.
> There´s this "waiting for harddisk ready" message you can skip w/ F7.
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> IF the harddisk or any SCSI media drive is "ready" before power up of the S-1xxx sampler, the sampler recognizes the running drive and loads highest OS available on that drive.
> If you power up S-1xxx series sampler before powering up the drive, it doesn´t work.
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> SCSI IDs must be set up right for correct operation.
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> It´s a idea to have a floppy drive replaced by a zip or MOD though !
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> Am 28.07.2011 13:45, schrieb Rish:
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>> I'm not sure thats the way it works, as far as I know.
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>> Rish
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>> Life is like MIDI, your either IN, OUT or THRU.
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