By LADiego
Fri May 27, 2011 2:00 am
i've been helping a friend add an internal non-hotswap card to his MPC200 With help from mpcstoragesolution.com. the MPC2000 does not have an internal scsi port so they key is to add a second scsi port outside the sampler. they sent us an ide card readr, a ide scsi board, y power cable, an ide cable, an scsi db25 convertr, and last a custom cable that adds an extra scsi port. and we can still daisychain a scsi zip drive. everything is recognzed on the scsi chain including the 16gb card. we would like to try a 32gb to see if that is recognized but that card is expensive. i think the hardest part to get is the ide scsi board. it is rare.
honestly, the hardest thing about this install was squeezing all the components inside the sampler. very little space inside but still do-able. we wound up putting the ide scsi convertr near the card reader. some aligning of the card reader was required and drilling of holes. the scsi db25 convertr between the effects board and smpte ports. did not know where else to acomodate the components. and the special cable from the convertr to just outside the scsi port which connects to the outside scsi port but still adds the additional scsi port outside. they have not made it available yet because they feel it is too much work for the average producer to attempt to install and introduce problems and they may be right but we were able to do it. i will post pics when I get my hands on a camera hopefully this weekend.
btw, mpcstoragesolution.com has something going on for the holidays. they are selling an external non-hotswap drive for a penny + s/h to the first and last person who e-mails from now til the end of the weekend. something like that. check it out.
just wanted to share our experience so far for those interested in adding a card reader to the MPC2000.
peace
honestly, the hardest thing about this install was squeezing all the components inside the sampler. very little space inside but still do-able. we wound up putting the ide scsi convertr near the card reader. some aligning of the card reader was required and drilling of holes. the scsi db25 convertr between the effects board and smpte ports. did not know where else to acomodate the components. and the special cable from the convertr to just outside the scsi port which connects to the outside scsi port but still adds the additional scsi port outside. they have not made it available yet because they feel it is too much work for the average producer to attempt to install and introduce problems and they may be right but we were able to do it. i will post pics when I get my hands on a camera hopefully this weekend.
btw, mpcstoragesolution.com has something going on for the holidays. they are selling an external non-hotswap drive for a penny + s/h to the first and last person who e-mails from now til the end of the weekend. something like that. check it out.
just wanted to share our experience so far for those interested in adding a card reader to the MPC2000.
peace