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HARD DISK CONTROL

SCSI (Small Computer Serial Interface) has become very popular as a means of

interfacing devices and because a SCSI interface is fitted as standard on the S3000XL,

you may use a wide range of hard disks as a storage device for your sound library. Hard

disks offer more in the way of size and also speed. More recently, the removable cartridge

types of storage devices have become increasingly popular. The problem with fixed drives

is that when they fill up you either have to delete files (or back them up to floppy or DAT)

or you need to buy another drive. With the removable types, you simply insert another

cartridge.

Your hard disk is controlled from the page of the SAVE mode. When (F5) is

pressed, the following screen display is seen:

The parameters on this page are used to set SCSI ID’s. The most important parameters

you need to know about are and .

SCSI allows up to 8 devices to be on the buss and these each have a unique number 0-7

(it’s similar to the concept of MIDI channels). In order for one SCSI device to ‘talk’ to a

hard drive, their SCSI ID’s must match. The field sets the SCSI ID for

the sampler’s SCSI interface. The default setting in the field is 5. This

parameter must be set to match that of the drive. For example, if your external drive is 1,

this parameter must be set to 1. You may, if you wish, have several drives connected and

each of these must have different SCSI ID’s. Each one can be selected by changing the

ID number in the field.

The field allows you to switch between the different MO

formats of disk. There are two - 512Bytes per sector and 1kByte per sector. Both offer the

same storage, they just have different sector sizes. The S3000XL can use both and this is

selected in this field. The default is 512b.

The field sets the S3000XL’s SCSI ID (as distinct from the sampler’s

SCSI interface’s ID) and is used when communicating between samplers or computer

editors over SCSI.

NOTE: If your external drive’s ID is something other than 5 and uses a IkBytes/sector disk,

you may set the appropriate settings here and, by saving the operating system to floppy

disk and powering up with it in the drive, the S3000XL will default to the SCSI ID and

sector size of your drive.

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