Akai S1000 / S1100 samplers

Hello lads!

... it was a birth, a hard goin work, unmounted my s1100, got to get 
that old 1.44 floppy off and swapped it with an ol' scsi zip, and it 
worked like a swift (well, after some bubblin' around ...) ...

Facts to remember if anybody else wants to try this:
.- there's no way to pull things out' of the akai, it's a tank, you MUST 
unscrew all you can and dettach all cables near what you're trying to 
dismount.
.-there are all kind of different sized screws on the s1100, write out 
where you unscrewed'em from ...
.- test your drive BEFORE closing the s1100 ... better if you test it 
before dismounting your floppy.
.- if you let the floppy cable attached even with floppy's power 
unplugged, it will timeout forever on booting
.- if you happen to plug the internal scsi cable backwards, the s1100
will also timeout forever while your zip makes some funny noise.
.- let the zip  with termination on and id 5 (the default) which happens 
to be the default drive the s1100 looks for on bootup
.- touch regularly ground in order to discharge your self from static 
electricity.

I also got to replace the burned out lcd backlight with one i got from
www.midi-rakete.de, cheapest source in europe and that also worked like 
a charm.

... in my next reincarnation I might try to replace the zip with an ide 
flash reader + ide-scsi internal adapter :^) (bought one, but happened 
to be SCA, not SCSI 50 ... it's going back to ebay where I got it from)

... now I'm just going to enjoy my s1100 + int zip attached via scsi to 
my old faithful atari falcon!

greetings,

Sebastian.

> you can use an internal scsi zip drive if you have a scsi card with
> internal scsi connector. Go for quality - avoid cheapo stuff. A better
> alternative are professional magneto optical drives which you find
> very easily on ebay. We discussed this some time ago (use search
> function to search in the messages). Don't switch scsi cables while
> the sampler is powered.
> 
> Rgds
> Frank
> 
> --- In akaiS1000S1100Samplers@yahoogroups.com, melvin turner
> <dizardsdreams@y...> wrote:
>  >
>  > no,but it sounds like a good idea! anyone tried outing the display
> to a much bigger easier to see one?I dare say all these things are
> possible,but dare yee bugger up ya sampler if it doesnt work?
>  >
>  > Sebastian Castro <rotoquezada@k...> wrote:  Hi people!
>  >
>  > Anybody tried replacing the internal 1.44 floppy drive with an internal
>  > SCSI 3.5" zip drive or ever heard of such a hack???
>  >
>  > Good year to everyone!
>  >
>  > Sebastian.
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