DOES ANYONE USE A SCSI EXT. HARD DRIVE FOR SAVING ON A 2XL?

I do, its about 2.5 gigs I think.

It works wonderful the onyl issue Im having is trying to hook up the same external hard drive up to a 50 pin SCSI PCI card in my computer...

Does anyone know if this will work? Can I move .wav files from my comp to the SCSI hard drive to my MPC and be able to read the files and load them?

Or... will the MPC demand I format it again before it will read my new .wav files?

Does anyone here have experience with this besides me?

Thanks in advance.

Peace
AVA.

BUMP?

yeah i use a LaCIE, two folders one for samples one for tunes....i hook it up to my pc to save back ups of old tunes and to import large samples into the mpc- works a treat.....

greg

Which MPC?

mpc3000 wrote:Which MPC?

hes using the xl, its at the top of his post.

i think the HD needs to be formatted first by the pc for it to work on both...

dubmunkey wrote:yeah i use a LaCIE, two folders one for samples one for tunes....i hook it up to my pc to save back ups of old tunes and to import large samples into the mpc- works a treat.....

greg

Which model LaCIE drive are you using? What's it's capacity?

g3? ill have to check.....got it from ebay for like £30......

i think its a couple of gig but the mpc will only read a certain amount of it....still it fits practically every sample i need (at the mo) and around ten tracks ive done (i save the rest on to my pc for back up)

bloody noisy, but luckily you can turn it off and on and the mpc will still recognise it.....i would seriously have to think about the alternative if i couldn't turn it on or off cos the fan noise is unbelivable....but yeah spot on...

greg

Does anyone know of a list of External HDDs that are guaranteed suppported by the 2kXl....Or anyone who has had success with a particular brand....


cheers

get this
http://www.iomega.com/software/ioware402pc.html
it should fix you right up

I cant get my pc to read mpc formatted drive or the mpc to read from a pc formatted hard drive. Dont know why, I have a 9gb scsi.

dubmunkey wrote:g3? ill have to check.....got it from ebay for like £30......

i think its a couple of gig but the mpc will only read a certain amount of it....still it fits practically every sample i need (at the mo) and around ten tracks ive done (i save the rest on to my pc for back up)

bloody noisy, but luckily you can turn it off and on and the mpc will still recognise it.....i would seriously have to think about the alternative if i couldn't turn it on or off cos the fan noise is unbelivable....but yeah spot on...

greg

Did you have to format the Lacie before using it with your MPC & before using it with your computer? Let me know the procedure. Thanks for your responses.

i tried some partitioning software and my MPC2000XL reads the hard drive at SCSI 0 but it cant read any of the partitions!

PLEASE I NEED HELP FOR A SHOW!

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

Peace
AVA.

i have a 9 gb harddrive hooked and it works ok.
but you have to format it on the mpc ,and when you hook it up to your pc ya have to format it again.
the thing is ntfs/fat versus mpcformat so its not possible to tansfer samples with your hd even not when you have a scsi50pins connector on your computer.
you can only store on hd from mpc

peace!!!!

djmarionesta wrote:i have a 9 gb harddrive hooked and it works ok.
but you have to format it on the mpc ,and when you hook it up to your pc ya have to format it again.
the thing is ntfs/fat versus mpcformat so its not possible to tansfer samples with your hd even not when you have a scsi50pins connector on your computer.
you can only store on hd from mpc

peace!!!!

Does the reformatting erase all info on the Hard drive?