curious about scsi, help!

so im just wondering, if you hook your computer to you mpc through scsi, does that allow data transfer? what does scsi do for you besides letting you hook up disk drives etc? sorry if its dumb and broad but im trying to piece this all together.

It's a legacy or older way of transfering or communicating with other computer peripherals.

And yes it will work if connected properly.

does it transfer midi data as well? like if i had midi and samples, and i knew which midi tracks went to what samples, could i transfer the midi from a beat ive made on pc then put the appropriate samples on the appropriate midi tracks and redo a beat in the mpc? im just trying to figure out how versatile i could get with an old mpc if i had scsi installed on my pc or through a usb converter.....

also im wondering, could you use your hard drive on your computer for storage thorugh scsi meaning instead of using disks? is it hard to set it up? sorry im like a little kid right now cause im dreamin of a rugged old mpc

To answer your question, I'll give a brief explination of what I use. My setup consists of 4 hd's (1 scsi, 2 sata's & 1 ext. usb).

The scsi hd is hosted by an adaptec scsi card (which both are needed if you plan on using other peripherals with it).

The only drawback is that it's a little slower (at data transfers) than the newer technological hd's, but is still reliable never-the-less.

I doubt that just installing a scsi card will yield all the results you're probably after, but storing and loading midi file data and audio samples via scsi hd...no problem.

Read more about this here SAS and you should get a brighter picture of what you might decide to go with.

And to answer your initial question...no it's not possible to transfer data between PC and MPC directly via SCSI. What dab is trying to explain is that you need to put a disk between the PC and the MPC, connected to both, on which data can be stored and accessed by both machines.

_Stilo_ wrote:And to answer your initial question...no it's not possible to transfer data between PC and MPC directly via SCSI. What dab is trying to explain is that you need to put a disk between the PC and the MPC, connected to both, on which data can be stored and accessed by both machines.

Thanks Stilo. Maybe I should have mentioned to dude that with a scsi hd in your system, you have access to files between the pc/mpc.

_Stilo_ wrote:And to answer your initial question...no it's not possible to transfer data between PC and MPC directly via SCSI. What dab is trying to explain is that you need to put a disk between the PC and the MPC, connected to both, on which data can be stored and accessed by both machines.

cool i get it now thanx!

If you aren't too tech savvy then SCSI isn't the way to go if you are starting out and reallly looking at getting an older MPC.
Too many problems of termination, SCSI ID's, possible blown SCSI fuses if hooked up wrong, differnt types of SCSI connectors not to mention most of the SCSI peripherals are hard to find and sometimes expensive.
I'm not trying to scare you out of purchasing an older MPC, but just giving you a heads up about some SCSI headaches.

Good Luck!

I APPRECIATE THE HEADS UP...but i still feel the old ones are the way to go unless you get a 2500 or up....