MPC 2000XL MCD Card Reader Problem

Hi

I'm new on this forum. I just bought an MPC 2000XL MCD on Ebay that is working great but i just bought a 2GB Sandisk card and i format it with a pc with a FAT32 format. When i tried to put the sd card in the slot, nothing happens...
I have the 1.20 OS installed for sure. When i put the card in the slot i just have a 2 seconds green flash on the the card reader and nothing. When i switched to the floppy in the Save screen, i have a "No floppy" message.

Could you please help to figure out what's going on!

Thanks to all for your help on that

I know i should not be the first one to post this kind of message but i could not find an complete answer to my question...

Jul_313

SD Cards don't work with samplers - you need to use a Compact Flash card.

All right. But why do they provide sd card reader on the MPC 2000xl MCD if it's not working at all ?
Just to better understand?

If it is a Legitimate MPC2000XL MCD from AKAI then I also wonder why they included the SD slot on there, because if the MPC is unable to read the SD media, then it in fact would be useless to have at all on there. (because you could not transfer data from PC to the MPC)

Unless AKAI was just too lazy to fabricate their own face plate that limited the physical access to only the CompactFlash slot. Which very well may be the case, I guess they could have done this because maybe the MCD was an attempt to sell the last bit of MPS2000XL hardware with low overhead, so they just purchased the drives and then installed them with no customization.

Even if so, that is pretty Janky.

All right guys. I tried a 128 MB compact flash and i have exactly the same problem... It says "no floppy device" in the LOAD MODE and when i try to format it i have:
Device : Floppy
Type 2DD/2HD

It seems that is still waiting for old disk and no memory card. I'm sure i have the 1.2 OS so it should work?

Are you sure you have it installed correctly? I believe it should say "ATAPI" not "Floppy" when you have the drive installed the right way. See this picture from another thread:

No i don' t have this screen... no "ATAPI". I guess i should install one more time the OS. What is the best way to do it ?
I don' t have any floppy disk slot and my MPC is waiting for a floppy. SO how to install the new OS that i will download on akaipro website (is that the right one?).

I doubt the problem is the os - to my knowledge, card readers are not dependant on an os version. At least I know the SCSI models are not. Are you sure the actual card reader is installed correctly? Could you have the IDE cable reversed?

Also, you must have a floppy installed to update the os.

I'll try to do it but as he recognize a floppy disk i guess he recognize something because if the cable was not plugged right, it would recognize nothing... I check it.

Hey, thank fr all your advice. I just inverse the IDE cable and it works. SD card and Compact Flash. The only problem i have right now is that the compact flash 128MB works great but the SD 2GB that i formatted with Windows Vista with FAT 32 is not recognized and when i format it with te MPC, i have this error at 0000:D29C.

Can you specify me the step to follow to format my sd card at 2GB on a PC (vista) and to make it works on my MPC.

Yes, here is what you do to make the SD card work: you take it back to the store and swap it for a CF card. Problem solved!

I can't return it to the shop. Any other advice?