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. [. . . ] You will have to copy those files to another DOS disk, at which point they can be imported into the Kurzweil. For those of you who have a CD-ROM Writer and wish to burn your own CDs, you need to configure your software to make a Disk Image copy. With some software this means that the source disk must be smaller than the maximum capacity of the CD, since the software wants to copy every sector on the source disk. However other software (for example, the Toast program for the Mac) will allow you to define only part of your source disk and burn a Disk Image of only that part of the disk. Another issue is what happens when you put a Kurzweil CD into your CD-ROM and it is connected to the computer (particularly significant for those use an internal CD-ROM in their computer). In point 5, above, we discussed what happens with a foreign sampler format CD. In the case of a CD created in the older Kurzweil format, the computer may or may not be able to recognize it. For Mac owners, if you have the proper DOS recognition utility (see the Mac section below), a Kurzweil formatted CD will simply show up as a DOS disk. 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. 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. (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. [. . . ] Just repeat the eight installations of "unsupported device" drivers and you are back in business. We recommend the following precaution: The Kurzweil default SCSI ID (accessible on the Kurzweil's [MIDI] (RECV) page) defaults to #6. If in the future you are forced for whatever reason to change this SCSI ID, you must go through the workaround procedure again. Likewise, if your Kurzweil is set to a SCSI ID other than #6, after a hard reset it will return to the factory default of #6. [. . . ]