{"id":877,"date":"2001-12-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-12-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/?p=877"},"modified":"2007-04-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-27T00:00:00","slug":"transferring-files-between-scsi-based-sampler-firewire-mac","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/articles\/transferring-files-between-scsi-based-sampler-firewire-mac\/","title":{"rendered":"Transferring files between a SCSI based sampler and a FireWire Mac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> &#8220;My computer is an iMac with FireWire, and I have a FireWire to SCSI converter. I was wondering whether the following configuration would work for file transfer between my iMac and K2000. I would like to be able to load sounds directly from the iMac&#8217;s hard drive and CD drive to the Kurzweil, then save them on its internal hard drive. Do people do this sort of thing? Is there a much simpler way?&#8221; First, a Kurzweil simply *cannot* see a Mac Drive and a Mac *cannot* see a Kurzweil-formatted Drive. So neither controller\/CPU can transfer files between them.Second, even if you format your Kurzweil&#8217;s Hard Drive as DOS (which Kurzweils and Macs with the latest OS can read), you&#8217;ll still be tempting fate as your Mac or your Kurzweil can make changes to your drive&#8217;s FAT (File Allocation Table) without alerting the other device. This sets up a situation where your Mac or Kurzweil might put something to a location that it believes is empty, which can cause catastrophic results. Some experienced users do this, and are able to keep it working, but it&#8217;s not for the faint at heart. And it does require specific types of hardware. In the old days it was possible to get a Mac and a Kurzweil (or other sampler) to share a common SCSI bus, but now with IDE drives and the USB\/FireWire on newer Macs it&#8217;s virtually impossible to effectively share resources with SCSI-based samplers.You can get a USB or FireWire to SCSI Adapter, and then a SCSI Removable Drive (like a SCSI Zip or Jaz) and swap it back and forth. You can even get a USB Floppy and insert a PC-Formatted floppy into the Mac and then insert it into the Kurzweil. 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