USB AKAI MPC 1000 ON LINUX HOWTO

Hi, I'm trying to mount the MPC in to my linux PC but It just does not get mounted. My distro is the latest ubuntu and it mount automatically any usb mass storage device I plug. What could I do to mount the MPC ?

Good to see someone else on here trying something besides Macs and (especially) winblowz...

Unfortunately my PC hardware is a bit too borderline to really run Ubuntu properly (other wise I'd probably run Studio edition) but I can at least tell you that the 1000 will indeed mount with the last two editions of DyneBolic. Just takes a few moments to detect. Did you try pressing the "mount" button in the USB screen? (you are trying this while in the USB screen on the MPC, right? gotta go there first or no USB access) Besides linux, I've also been able access the drive from certain later editions of Be, so it's certainly possible without apple or M$.

If you really can't get to work I suppose you could burn the Dyne live CD and transfer with that... but you really should be able to make that work in U.

you probably haven't overlooked it, as it's kind of obvious, but just for the record - you did hit the MOUNT key on your MPC right?

I've used Linux a bit before, but I'm not too much of an authority on it. It could be a compatibility issue, but it seems to me like it shouldn't be a problem.

Have you tried any other distros? Give it a shot with a Knoppix live CD or something, see if you have any luck. I'm away from my MPC at the moment but I may have some time in the next week to do some experimenting with it.

Ok guys . . . I've managed to do it myself. It's a 80 GB disk stripped from a Macintosh Powerbook G4.

First of all, format the with disk the sampler utility, the one integrated on the MPC. If you format the disk with linux vfat it won't work.

To see if it's reallly connected, execute the following command:
then you will get something like this, depending on how many USB buses you have:


If your distro does not do automount, execute : You will see the following :



As you can see, the assigned device for the sampler is
So, first create a directory to mount the sampler:

Then mount the sampler:

You will get your sampler mounted then. To manipulate the data on the hard disk, use the directory where it's mounted

That's it, thank you for your time.

Thanks for adding this useful info to the archive. Odd the automount doesn't work for the 1000. Some distros can be funny that way. I have to go through a similar manual activation routine to get USB audio to work in Dyne.