Flloppy disk drive emulators in a Mpc 2000

Just a update on how I'm getting on with my Gotek floppy drive emulator in my MPC 2000.

The main problems are:
1) My Xp computer very rarely recognizes any information, let alone the separate virtual partitions of 1000 virtual floppy disks.
2) Unfortunately if you try to save more than 1.40mb then get the "please insert new disk" message it will not acknowledge that you've pushed the button to next disk.

Other than that, it's a lot better than my floppy drive, which was so temperamental it was driving me mentle.
At least with this I can save a session and come back to it.
So it's a god send.

I'm not very experienced with my MPC, but what I'm learning is to save it as I go along.
Cuz I don't want to leave it on all night and fry the screen.

So in summery these Gotek Floppy Emulators are ok
But they're not going to solve mass storage problems over 1.40mb in one go.

Still, it's working for me.
PeAcE.

Thanks for the info.
Just out of interest, why have you not taken the SCSI option?

I just haven't got round to it yet.
I bought a external scsi enclosure thinking I'd be able to put one of my old hard drives inside it, then found out it had to be a 50 pin hard drive.
I see them on ebay pretty cheep now and then, but have/nt got round to buying one.
Also I heard that they make a lot of noise, so I've starting to think I'd be better off with a zip drive.
A cf card reader would be good too, but I don't have that sort of spare cash at the moment.

ah ok
There are 68 pin to 50 pin adapters around that may help if there is enough room in your enclosure. Haven't tried them myself though.

I took my Emulator out of my Mpc the other day to test it in my S3000i.
I remember some one was asking about the the Jumper settings, so here's a picture of the setting that works on my Mpc 2000.



Although I'm sure there's various models of the Gotek emulator, so this may or may not apply to other models.
Mine's the 1000 disk type.

i say this a lot, but for a little more money, the hxc floppy emulators are almost perfect - they behave EXACTLY like a regular floppy drive, and are compatible with almost everything,. you don't have to do any of that partition stuff, it saves each disk image as a file which is very easy to backup on a computer. also you dont have a usb key sticking out your mpc.

is there some sort of performance gain when using the floppy emulator versus using a zip drive? i understand how "slow" magnetic mediums can be, but what's the real benefit? my xl has a zip 100 installed, and that seems to be sufficient enough for me

zips fail or break a lot quicker than any other medium. so it might work today, but it might bite you tomorrow.
yes they have more space, but for some folks, maybe using only sequences or very small samples, floppies/floppy emulators might be sufficient.