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VERSION 1.30
For those who still insist on hooking up their sampler to a Mac/PC via SCSI or for those having
two samplers sharing one disk drive (i.e. both cases have two SCSI initiators accessing a
common drive), the AUTO-SCAN is not infallible and some problems may still persist and you
should set the DISK AUTO SCAN parameter in UTILITIES/SYSEM SETUP to OFF in this
instance to avoid unexpected SCSI bus crashes. The reason being....
In the case of an S5/6000 connected to a Mac/PC, using the EJECT DISK function will, as
stated, eject the disk and flush the sampler's CPU memory of the disk's directory, do a re-scan
and report back to the sampler that the drive is empty but....
The Mac/PC has no knowledge of this change and as far as it's concerned, the original disk is
still mounted. Any attempt to acces the disk on the Mac/PC in this state may cause unreliability.
Similarly, when using two samplers to access the one drive, the same principles apply. You
may use EJECT DISK on Sampler A but Sampler B has no knowledge of the change.
Accessing any disk functions on Sampler B may cause some problems.
This is a limitation of SCSI and not a failing of the S5/6000 OS.
Please refer to the documentation on our website for more details of the dangers regarding
multiple initiators on one SCSI bus (in other words, hooking a sampler and its drive up to a
another SCSI initiator):
http://www.akai.com/akaipro/downloads.html
or....
http://www.akai.com/akaipro/tips-samplers.html
Whilst it is 'theoretically' possible to connect your sampler to a Mac/PC or another sampler via
SCSI, given the many potential problems outlined in the documentation referred to above, it
cannot be recommended and Akai Electric Co., Ltd., cannot be held responsible for any
problems and/or data loss you may encounter should you continue to use the S5/6000 in this
way.
If you plan to use your sampler in this way, it is recommended you switch DISK AUTO SCAN to
OFF in the UTILITIES/SYSTEM page.
For 'standalone' operation, however (i.e. one sampler connected to removable drives with no
Mac/PC or second sampler attached), you should find that the new AUTO-SCAN function
improves reliability greatly when swapping disks.
*** IMPORTANT NOTE ***
S5/6000 NEW FEATURES
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