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Page 216 CD3000XL OperatorÕs Manual
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 CD3000XL, 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 4, and this is an internal
CD-ROM SCSI ID. 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. Set this field accordingly when you are
using an external drive(s).
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 CD3000XL can use both and this is selected
in this field. The default is 512b.
The field sets the CD3000XL’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 CD3000XL will default to the SCSI ID and sector size of
your drive. You need to set the SCSI ID again in order to use the internal CD-ROM drive.