From inSync reader Besart H:
“I have an NEC laptop computer with an external CD-ROM drive hooked up to it through a PCM-CIA slot connection. Now, this CD-ROM drive doesn’t work without the computer because the laptop has the driver for it and runs it (the CD-ROM) through this PCM-CIA card. Is it possible for me to somehow connect a Roland S-760 to the computer and that way get through to the CD-ROM drive? I have had this idea of connecting my S-760 from its SCSI to the computer through the serial port, but I haven’t had the cable and therefore have never tried it out. In case it works, what kind of a cable do I need for it?” |
Thanks for your question, Besart! Unfortunately, we can’t give you the answer you want to hear on this one!
- There is no way we know of to interface a SCSI bus to a PC serial port.
- Even if you could interface SCSI to serial, the CD-ROM would not be accessible by the sampler.
The only possibility: If the CD-ROM drive is SCSI-based (which we doubt), you could take it off the computer and use it directly with the sampler. Sorry!