I got an external 2 gig SCSI drive and formatted it FAT-16 like the Fostex manual says, also a PCMCIA SCSI controller card for my laptop. They work fine, but the Fostex doesn't see the SCSI drive as a DOS format, it wants to reformat it in Fostex's backup format.
From what I've found, this is a widely reported problem and I've yet to see anyone say they've successfully exported WAV files to a SCSI hard drive from a Fostex D-160. I've emailed Fostex on this, but they're maintaining radio silence. Hmmm...
Our workaround is this: the program tracks can be burned directly to a Fostex CD recorder, which results in one very long stereo audio file. Tracks 1 & 2 are followed by 3 & 4, etc. The CD is recorded in real time, so a 5 minute song takes 16 / 2 x 5 = 40 minutes to record.
I convert that to an enormous stereo WAV file, and use some utilities to extract the 16 mono WAV tracks from that. Each track starts with a little chirp, trimming the WAVs to that synchronizes them. Then I import them into Cakewalk. This process takes me around an hour, I hope to get that down to half that.
It looks like I wasted my money on the SCSI hardware, unless Fostex comes through with a solution, but I'm not too optimistic. Excerpt from a thread I saw:
Post#1: >>>>However, you can transfer *.wav files via SCSI to your PC's SCSI HD (and back to fostex).<<<<
Post#2: One would think you could do this, but according to Fostex tech support, you can not. I'm told that the SCSI port only supports JAZ or ZIP, and not HD.