Technical questions for the MPC2000xl and the MPC2000
By Timothy Mon Aug 25, 2003 11:03 am
I found a cheap external scsi-1 9Gb,does it work with my mpc2000xl? Is it ok with scsi-1 or do I need scsi-2?
Maybe I can grab 4 of them if someone else wants to buy...

By mpc3000 Tue Sep 02, 2003 3:27 am
"4.5gb max on 2kxl"

Actually it's a typo. I have a 6 gig laptop drive in the MPC and a 10 gig external.

Either SCSI type should work but these are sort of misleading labels. If it is a wide drive (16-bit), it needs to be able to negotiate down to narrow (8-bit) or have a jumper so you can force it to 8 bit. These are typically thes 68 pin drives. Beware some drives will not work with the MPC. I have a 4.5 Quantum Viking that does not.

By PLATINUM1 Tue Sep 02, 2003 4:13 am
I know this is off topic, but MPC3000, how hard was it to get that hard drive put in internally ? I was thinking about doing that.

By mpc3000 Tue Sep 02, 2003 4:19 am
Hard is relative. It was easy for me since I worked at a repair center fixing keyboards, amps, recorders and samplers all day.

If you never so much as soldered in your life, I imagine it can be pretty hard.

By MR808 Tue Sep 02, 2003 9:09 pm
[quote="mpc3000"]Hard is relative. It was easy for me since I worked at a repair center fixing keyboards, amps, recorders and samplers all day.

If you never so much as soldered in your life, I imagine it can be pretty hard.[/quote]
So youre volunterring to install mine for FREE...since you do it all day for pay ..! 1 charity case is not going to hurt, WILL IT....LOL

By mpc3000 Wed Sep 03, 2003 4:20 am
"volunterring to install mine for FREE"

Sure I will, but if I break it, I keep it, for free.
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By Lampdog Wed Sep 03, 2003 4:55 pm
MPC3000, good looking out on the info. I relied on the manual for that info. I guess u can't even trust the manual these days huh. Pretty sad being misinformed by companies that u trust aint it?

By mpc3000 Thu Sep 04, 2003 5:41 am
"Pretty sad being misinformed by companies that u trust aint it?"

I suspect the problem was in the translation of the manual from Japenese and there was no intentional misleading. Aside from that, there really isn't any damage being done by this `wrong` information. So you have a smaller drive, no big deal.