Dd1500X Front And Rear Panels - Akai DD1500 User Manual

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The DD1500x is the system's disk drive. It can accommodate up to two Sony™ 1.3Gbyte
Magneto Optical (MO) disk drives or a combination of fixed hard disk drive and MO drive
and connects to the DD1500m using SCSI.
When used with an MO drive, the system can record simultaneously up to four tracks and
play back eight tracks. When used with a suitably fast fixed hard disk drive, the system
can record up to eight simultaneous tracks and can play sixteen.
NOTE 1: You will note that installing two MO drives does not enable 16-track performance
(i.e. 2 x 8 tracks). Similarly, installing a hard disk and an MO will not expand your track
playback capability. However, it is possible to have some recordings played from one disk
and others from another simultaneously provided the maximum number of tracks does
not try to exceed the maximum number allowed by the slowest drive in the system. For
example, if you try to use an MO and a hard disk, because of SCSI bandwidth limitations,
the maximum number of tracks would be eight (for example, four tracks from the hard disk
and four from the MO) as this is the maximum allowed by the MO drive which, in this case,
is the slowest drive in the system. This is not a restriction imposed by the DD1500 but by
SCSI.
Version 2.00 - March, 1996
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SCSI (DRIVE 2) SCSI (DRIVE 2)
CONNECTIONS - DD1500X - 4
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