yayajohn wrote: ↑Mon Jul 18, 2022 3:49 pm
I've had mine installed for a couple of weeks and no issues at all. If you email the company I think you will get a timely response. They were very helpful answering all of my questions.
I guess the shipping costs an custom will make it way more expensive here.
And at least to me, the drive´s display arrangment might make it cumbersome to read ´cause one has to tilt the head all the time.
The drives display itself is very small in addition so I wonder if I cann read it at all even wearing glasses.
So my questions here,-
1.)
Do you use the drive w/ rotary file selector and black OLED display ?
2.)
When scrolling thru files on drive, do they show up in the samplers (larger) dispay too before loading,- similar to using an external SCSI drive ?
3.)
Can you store complete sample CD content to this drive as a "volume" and then pick single programs and related samples from a given "volume"?
background:
I´ve found a guy offering a cardreader drive,- advertised for S-2000 / 3000 XL, which also works for S-1000 and S-1100.
It´s more expensive, but it connects to the sampler´s internal SCSI port while sitting in the floppy drive slot.
The old AKAIs recognize SCSI media w/ a size of ~ 500MB max.,- so when you fully loaded the sampler (8 - 32mb RAM) you stored volumes and not only what a floppy disk can store.
I understand the drive you use replaces a floppy drive w/ new drive handling modern media,- but it also acts like a floppy drive still.
Means,- it loads floppy disk images as also uses the floppy drive bus,- not SCSI.
Is that the case ?
When using the card reader drive (see link below), it acts like a SCSI drive, HDD, MOD, Syquest 44/88, ZIP or Jazz w/ the option storing and loading both, floppy disk size content or entire volumes,- and while scrolling thru and/or selecting files being stored on the drive (by using the AKAI frontpanel !), you get info about everything on sampler´s display.
The cardreader drive w/ the card inserted supports 4 "drives" with a size of 500MB and individual SCSI ID for each "drive".
The card is "hotswap", so you can change cards while the sampler is running.
The floppy drive is gone then.
https://www.ebay-kleinanzeigen.de/s-anz ... 81-74-2807
This is a commercial dealer and expert for such solutions too (see his other offerings)
So, I don´t want storing and loading floppy disk content to/from modern media only,- I want the same w/ the sampler´s entire setups/volumes and faster than the floppy drive bus is.
Up to now, I uses ext. SCSI drives, preferably small MOD (magneto optical disc) ´cause these are removable and I have ´em mounted in 1HU 19" racks.
I also own the others, CD-ROM/ HDD combo rackmounts, Syquest removable etc.,- w/ 2HU too bulky for today´s demands, but they worl still.
The cardreader drive would be an improvement and I wonder if the Gotek drive would be too and in the same manner.
Bud