Hi, It may be just that the spin-up time of the harddrive is too slow and the AKAI is looking for the disk before it's up to speed and thus giving the error. I had this trouble when I experimented with putting an old SCSI HD in my Akai S2000. I gave up in the end for 2 reasons, firstly was the problem you have which I rectified by switching on the hard-drive before the sampler so it found the OS, and secondly as it kept blowing the fuses by drawing too much current so i had to use a separate PSU in the end for the harddrive. In the end I just SCSI chained it to my S3000XL which already had a Compact Flash reader in it. Chris.
---In akaiS1000S1100Samplers@yahoogroups.com, <akais1000s1100samplers@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
Hi, I have an S1000HD that I bought a number of years ago that had a defective internal drive. I took it out and used the unit for a number of years that way and everything worked fine. I've just put an old SCSI drive I had in it and formatted it, and it seems to work fine as far as my loading samples/programs and the latest operating system into it. It retains the info after shutdown, so it seems to do what I need it to, but when I start up the unit I get a hard disk error notice, and it doesn't load the operating system automatically. It does load manually, though. Any thoughts as to what I can do to get this alert to go away, and also get the system to load on startup? Thanks, Wayne.