By dunkeyman
Sun Jun 16, 2019 5:06 pm
Two electric shocks, three IDE CD ROM drives, eight burned discs, two CF cards, three SD cards, and a floppy drive later and I'm ready to admit defeat. I bought this MPC 2000 XL with it already having the SD card mod done to it. However, it's on a very old OS (1.12). It isn't until OS 1.20 where you can put in a card that a Windows PC will recognize (on the OS I am on, the MPC will demand the card be formatted before use. When it formats it, it's unreadable on a PC). You can see why this is a big catch 22.
So I can't just put the firmware update on the SD card because the 2000XL will demand it be formatted. So I dug out an old floppy drive and plugged it into the MPC's floppy port and it kept saying no floppy drive installed even though I verified that the floppy drive works just fine (as well as several floppy disks). Then I burned the update to a CD-R and that too did nothing. The MPC will not detect the CD-ROM attached to the IDE port (it keeps saying no floppy device installed). I am so desperate that I even bought a CF to IDE adapter and put the update on the CF card and that didn't work either. The MPC detects the SD card reader just fine.
Anyway, how am I supposed to update the firmware on this? Do I have to find a genuine MPC floppy drive for this thing? I was under the impression that it's a generic floppy drive considering it has a normal floppy port and a normal floppy power connector. I even looked up SCSI CD-ROM drives but their ports looked nothing like the port on the back of my 2000XL.
Anyway if anyone knows how I could update this OS I would greatly appreciate it. I've done a bunch of Googling too and have gotten nowhere. Thanks in advance!
So I can't just put the firmware update on the SD card because the 2000XL will demand it be formatted. So I dug out an old floppy drive and plugged it into the MPC's floppy port and it kept saying no floppy drive installed even though I verified that the floppy drive works just fine (as well as several floppy disks). Then I burned the update to a CD-R and that too did nothing. The MPC will not detect the CD-ROM attached to the IDE port (it keeps saying no floppy device installed). I am so desperate that I even bought a CF to IDE adapter and put the update on the CF card and that didn't work either. The MPC detects the SD card reader just fine.
Anyway, how am I supposed to update the firmware on this? Do I have to find a genuine MPC floppy drive for this thing? I was under the impression that it's a generic floppy drive considering it has a normal floppy port and a normal floppy power connector. I even looked up SCSI CD-ROM drives but their ports looked nothing like the port on the back of my 2000XL.
Anyway if anyone knows how I could update this OS I would greatly appreciate it. I've done a bunch of Googling too and have gotten nowhere. Thanks in advance!