Technical questions for the MPC2000xl and the MPC2000
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By Lampdog Tue Feb 16, 2010 11:26 pm
sorinp wrote:No, the 2K freezes upon startup... oh well...

Is that with a partitioned FAT 4gb card?
All partitions formatted via FAT? ie, partition1 = 2gb FAT, partition2 = 2gb FAT
or
All partitions formatted via FAT? ie, partition1 = 1gb FAT, partition2 = 1gb FAT
partition3 = 3gb FAT, partition4 = 4gb FAT.

Or maybe the 2k just doesn't like that card in the first place, lol.

Or is that what Life Absolute wanted to know about peoples experiences
with non hot swappable stuff?
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By Freeman Mon Feb 22, 2010 11:29 am
@lamp
yo this might be a dumb question but pretty please bare with me here.
if i have a compact flash to IDE adaptor which is not hot swappable due to the IDE part right.
but
have it plugged into a IDE to SCSI bridge that is ATAPI would that make it then hot swapable?
I only ask as i have to buy a bridge anyway (damn classic 2k's and their funky internals) but before i purchase the bridge I thought I'd check that signal flow out.
cf card -> CF to IDE -> IDE to SCSI ATAPI Bridge -> MPC = hot swap?
your thoughts appreciated.
peace.