DOS on a MAC

[ripple FX]

Steve-I realize this is not PT related, but I thought you might offer a suggestion:

I bought an IBM 9 gig internal drive to put in my Akai S5000 sampler. It is unformatted. The S5000 wants the drive to be DOS formatted. I'm up to my ears in Macs without a single DOS machine in sight. Is it possible to DOS format with a mac (it's a scsi drive)? I've checked Drive Setup 1.8.1 and HDT 3.0.2 with no luck. Thanks for your help.

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[ripple FX]

Thanks for your reply Steve. I'll look up DataViz and see what they offer. Another user suggested Formatter5 from Software Archetects, so there two possibilities. Anyway I'll post a solution if I find one.

Thanks again.

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[Steve Rosenthal]

Rip,

I don't know of any formatting utility that will create DOS volumes from a Mac. We use a utility called MacOpener by a company called DataViz. It allows us to mount and create HFS volumes on Windows. It's possible they may have a utility that works the opposite way. Try looking them up on the web.

Hope that helps.

--Steve Rosenthal, Digidesign ETS

[slinky]

your sampler should be able to format your drive. i have no experience with the akai 5000 but i know the mpc-2000 will format hard drives. my emu does too.

[ripple FX]

My problem was that the brand new unformatted drive caused the S5000 to not boot. It would hang upon startup. The solution for me was to use 'MultiFormatter' which is a part of 'DOS Mounter' from Software Architects. The S5000 only recognizes the first 6.4 GB in three partitions, but it's better than nothing!

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[Ed Douglas]

Formatter Five works just peachy for me and my K2000.

E.D.