how can i survive without a zip?

yeah ! a zip drive...
i did a session with a pal on fri we did an entire beat and could not save to floppy as too much data tried saving the pgm with no sounds then spreading sounds over onto various floppies but cant seem to work out how to do it as it says WRONG DISK!!!

help before i dispare

You have to format the disk before the mpc can use it.

the disk is formatted. it is just that i am trying to spead a song over 4 disks

Yeah, I was kinda trying to avoid that issue...

It should work in theory but in real life I have had varied results with the multiple floppy save. You should consider getting a new scsi hard drive or zip.

In the long run, that is. For now try saving the sequence data separately, and the program and sample data on the multiple run floppies.

It was a loooong time since I had this problem, but if I remember right I got it to work on one or two occasions. The problem could also be that there is a long sample stretching over an entire disk or more, but I never got any clear idea what worked and didn't, as I quickly got myself a zip drive to solve the problem...

Not much help, but hang in there and don't lose your head.

lol im bidding on a zip drive
cos the thing is it just aint happenning!
and I wasted 3 hours of my time which is not alot of time in theory but when its with a pro it is kina a bit of a ball ache...
are those jaz drives and hard drives compattable with mpc 2000?

U SBHOULD GET A ZIP IN MY OPINION IF U GET A ZIP 250 U SHOULD HAVE NO PROBLEMS PLUS IT WILL LOAD 100MB + 250MB ZIPS EASY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Plus the Blankz Are Alot Easier to Fild For Chead Than The JAZ JOINTZ...............

250 def work yer? is the 2k scsi too or is it paralell

It's definitely SCSI

is it a standard scsi cable?
or one of those 25 pin ones?

It's a 25 pin socket on the zip drive, the same as on the MPC2000.


Edit: The 25 pin to 25 pin cable normally comes as standard w/ a Zip drive.

sweet. i got one off ebay. well it was actually 2 scsi zips and one internal so if anyone needs one? im yer man,,(same cost as one!)

don't even **** with a zip just go card reader and be done with it.

card reader FTW!

will a card reader work on 2k?

Yeah, an external scsi card reader will. But I personally would just use a plain hard disk.