Technical questions for the MPC2000xl and the MPC2000
By Daedalvirtuoso13 Mon Jul 04, 2022 1:16 pm
I bought

152188-001 Compaq 9.1GB UNIVERSAL HOT-PLUG WIDE ULTRA3 SCSI HARD DRIVE - 10,000

Now what do I have to do exactly to hook it up just a 80 pin to a 50 pin or 25 pin
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By AMG Sat Jul 09, 2022 4:03 pm
The MPC2K has a 25 pin
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By peterpiper Sat Jul 09, 2022 6:55 pm
2000 or 2000XL??
2000 doesn't have internal SCSI port so you have to use the SCSI port on the back which is a 25PIN D-SUB connector but to be honest IMO this drive is not the device I would choose to work with the 2000.
2000 file structure comes without folders so one big 9GB drive isn't a good solution. BTW the xl can handle 9GB max only with the os1.14 . With the os 1.20 it's only 1GB. I don't know how much the 2000 (noxl) can handle.

Why did you choose this drive?

peace


EDIT: I recommend either a MO-Drive or a card reader.
I use an extrenal MO-Drive for years. Mostly with 230MB disks which I format with a few partition to keep it sorted (kind of :) )
By Daedalvirtuoso13 Tue Jul 26, 2022 5:14 am
Cuz my Zip drive messed up I have like 4 of them now all won’t spin and it won’t boot up off the3.5 at all so I bought the first scsi that fit requirements

80 pin to 25 put the 1.7 file on the scsi then hook it up??
By enchilada Fri Aug 05, 2022 10:01 pm
Ditch it, buy a DB25 BlueSCSI, and call it a day.

I've replaced my external DB25 SCSI port with an internal one so my BlueSCSI is internal. You can buy a 3d printed case for it though to use it externally.

I have 6 x 1GB disk images on SD card formatted to 26 x 40MB partitions. That gives me over 1,000 partitions to organise my beats.
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By richie Sun Aug 28, 2022 1:12 am
enchilada wrote:Ditch it, buy a DB25 BlueSCSI, and call it a day.

I've replaced my external DB25 SCSI port with an internal one so my BlueSCSI is internal. You can buy a 3d printed case for it though to use it externally.

I have 6 x 1GB disk images on SD card formatted to 26 x 40MB partitions. That gives me over 1,000 partitions to organise my beats.


Kudos to you for mentioning the Blue SCSI project, I'm going to build a few and give them a run on my 2000 and other SCSI capable devices. The Zulu SCSI should function the same as the BlueSCSI as both projects function the same ( I believe the devs are having some sort of online fight about it as well)
By Daedalvirtuoso13 Mon Sep 05, 2022 4:59 am
I bought it cuz it was cheap and I’m broke and I have 5 Zip drives and none of them spin and when I boot from 3.5 it freezes or won’t boot up some strange
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By richie Tue Sep 06, 2022 2:24 pm
Daedalvirtuoso13 wrote:I bought it cuz it was cheap and I’m broke and I have 5 Zip drives and none of them spin and when I boot from 3.5 it freezes or won’t boot up some strange


You ended up spending more to buy that than what it would've cost you to buy the right thing.
By djbtk Sun Sep 11, 2022 4:36 pm
Hello, All,
I’m a novice when it comes to this topic, but I recently bought the Zulu SCSI while waiting for the SCSI2SD to become available. Im using the 2000 classic, and I’m wondering what steps I need to take to use it, since the floppy drive won’t read my original start up disks or copies of the OS. I’m less concerned with saving data and more concerned about booting the machine up in order to use it. I’m hoping the Zulu will solve the disk read error. Anyone have insight?