Technical questions for the MPC2000xl and the MPC2000
By Dj GadGet Sun Jul 11, 2004 10:08 pm
I juts bought a uesd MPC 2000 off ebay it came with a SCSI zip drive and some zip file,
I put the MPC 2000 O.S. Ver 1.72 in and every thing load good, the problem come in when I hit "shift" and "disk" and go to device and change from the floppy another program, a message come up say'in wait'in.................... and it just stay there forever, is my MPC 2000 @#$*ed up please help !!

By Db75 Sun Jul 11, 2004 10:24 pm
hmm...i dunno but it might be somethin to do with the zip drive. i dont have a zip drive though so i dont know what the problem might be.

but try unplugging the scsi cable from the mpc and turning it on and going to disk
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By DSTRUCT Sun Jul 11, 2004 11:05 pm
man my 2000 always does that! im on my second zip drive and still i have to deal with this. When it says "wait" I usually eject the disk, unplug the zipdrive (from the side of the actual zip drive). This will unfreeze the mpc and bring it back the the load screen. Once there, I change over to scsi 4 (you should be using 5 for your zip), then hit "main screen". ONce on main screen, i plug in my zip again, and insert the disk. I wait like 5 seconds the hit shift and load again. I switch from scsi 4 back to scsi 5 and that usually wakes up the zip drive and i can load my sh*t again. Thats the only way i can get around the problem, but there must be a better way.




Wait a minute, shouldnt this be in the newbie forums???????? :evil:

By Dj GadGet Mon Jul 12, 2004 1:50 am
I tied all that shit, nothing....even when I try to load another floppy disc I still get that wait'in........... and when I dont get that and start to assign that shit I get (no sound) I'm try'in not to get mad over this shit cuz it took me a day or two to get Reason 2.5 working right, if any one can help or got any tip please post

~Respect
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By stryke Mon Jul 12, 2004 5:27 am
Mine was doin' that too(I was waitin' for like 20 minutes and still got nothin').I changed drives because the 250 i had didn't have the id switch on the back which i think made it a parallel port.A true scsi will have the id switch,which is usually the 100mb.You may just wanna switch em up and try a 100mb for now.Since i switched i haven't had any problems at all....Peace.
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By DA RIPPER Mon Jul 12, 2004 6:48 pm
MAKE SURE THE TERMINATION IS ON ON THE BACK OF THE ZIP