User manual KURZWEIL SCSI

[. . . ] KURZWEIL K2000/K2vx/K2500/K2600 SCSI HELP The following document contains information on using SCSI with the K2000/K2vx/K2500/K2600, as well as specific sections dealing with the using the Kurzweil in a SCSI chain with your computer. For all info below, any reference to the K2000 also applies to the K2vx Basic SCSI Information: Here are some basic guidelines to follow when configuring a SCSI chain: 1. Never, ever plug or unplug SCSI cables when your equipment is turned on. SCSI cables carry power. The act of plugging or unplugging cables causes momentary short circuits, which can result in damage to the internal circuitry of your SCSI device. [. . . ] Depending on the SCSI card and SCSI drivers in your system, the computer may or may not be able to recognize the Kurzweil format and may or may not be able to handle a CD which is not ISO 9660 (see the PC section below). Macintosh Specific Issues: Please read the entire section on using the Kurzweil in a chain with your computer before continuing. Previous to the newer generation of Macs (starting with the "Blue" Mac G3, the IMac, and the IBook), SCSI was standard on the Mac. If you have a newer Mac without SCSI, you can get a SCSI card. Or, in the case of the IMac and IBook which have no card slots, you can get a USB to SCSI adapter. On most earlier Macs, the Internal Hard Drive is also SCSI, but some models use an IDE drive instead. Many people with an internal CD-ROM drive want to be able to access it from the Kurzweil so they don't have to buy a separate CD-ROM drive for their Kurzweil. Again, depending on the model the drive may or may not be a SCSI drive. Furthermore, there were some models, such as the 9600, which actually had two separate SCSI chains - one for internal devices and one for external devices. Since the external SCSI port is not on the same chain as the internal SCSI CDROM drive, there is no way for the Kurzweil to communicate with the CD-ROM in these models. We recommend that you don't scroll on the Kurzweil to ID 7, the ID of the Mac itself. You are likely to lock up the Kurzweil and crash the Mac. (If you have a newer Mac with a SCSI card, you may be able to change the ID to any desired number, but it is probably wisest to leave it at 7. ) Some people also report a lockup occurring if they scroll to ID 0 (the Mac's internal drive, if your Mac has an internal SCSI drive). If you do scroll on the Kurzweil to the SCSI ID of any Mac formatted hard drive, make sure that you don't press one of the soft buttons while that drive is set as the current drive, since it is possible you could lock up your SCSI chain, or even possibly corrupt some data on the disk. The biggest issue for Mac owners is that the Kurzweil can read and write to a DOS formatted drive, but not a Mac formatted drive. For Mac owners who want to hook up their Kurzweil drive to the Mac for backup purposes or have the Kurzweil in the SCSI chain with other drives, this has presented potential problems in the past. Although the Mac OS has been able to read DOS formatted floppies for many years, there were problems recognizing DOS formatted hard drives and removable media drives. However, newer versions of the Mac OS have improved these issue considerably. We recommend using Mac OS 8. 5 or later, and version 3. 0. 2 (or later) of the File Exchange control panel (File Exchange comes standard with the OS) . This combination has given the best results, especially for disks formatted with the K2600. With this configuration you can read most partitioned DOS disks, but you can't format them. If you have a version from 7. 5 to 8. 1, you will have a control panel called PC Exchange (the predecessor of File Exchange). Although PC Exchange will recognize some DOS formatted removable drives, it won't recognize DOS formatted fixed drives. [. . . ] Choose the option to restart in DOS mode. 2. When first booting up your computer and the message "starting WINDOWS 95" comes up, immediately hit the "F8" key and choose the option "COMMAND PROMPT ONLY". When you first power on, you should see some message from your SCSI card setup showing you that it has recognized a drive that matches the settings of the drive in your Kurzweil. Once you have booted into DOS and you're at the C:\prompt, type in FDISK. [. . . ]