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I want to use my Akai S3000 sampler with my PC, so I can copy samples from PC onto the Sampler via SCSI.

From what I gather it can be done with a SCSI card & SCSI HDD in the pc, and a cable connecting the card to the sampler.

Is this correct? I had a quick look around apparantly you can use an Adaptec SCSI 2920 or 2940. I have found both for sale, but I couldnt find a 50pin HDD anywhere for the 2920.

The 2940 seems to have 68pin external connector, how would this connect to the AKAI 25pin connector?

The connector does not matter, just get a 68pin to 50pin cable. The beautiful thing about SCSI is that it is 100% backwards compatible. I have the 2940 (under win7 64bit btw, got to love windows) running with an Yamaha A3000 (50 pin narrow) with a internal LVD drive and a SCSI CDROM all connected with different cables and it works fine. If you are not familiar with SCSI, prepare to do some reading on how to terminate everythin

Ah many thanks, I will have a read up.