What is the data port next to the RAM slot used for???

Does anybody know what this is used for? It looks like SCSI or something...

picture from bottom up:

when i took off the front part of the 1000, the panel where the memory card is in, there is this empty space that looks like it could hold something, I think it's made for a drive of some sort i dunno. Does anyone know what it is?

I'm refering to the grey thing in the picture, the thing with the blue wire crossing it, something is made to go in it, but i don't know what.

I'm talking about the port on the left underneath the EXM-128/RAM slot.. Very curios, somebody knows I'm sure...

I'm very curious about the other port. It's pretty deep. I'm sure akai has plans for it. It would be such a waste of space in there. plus there was a something that you can connect at the end of the space. I think I will call akai about it.

May be a zip drive? or something new that we dont even know about?

Or they can be used for akai for testing the machine, I donno.

This has been covered in this forum...it's a slot for a hard drive, though the connector is not "standard" so don't go runnint out to buy a laptop drive. Also, the MPC1K (at the moment) does not support FATA32, so you couldn't put a drive larger than 2GB anyway.

Akai hasn't commented definitively whether they will sell a HD for it or not in the future.

that would be more than dope if we could throw a HD in there.

I would take 2 GB built in anyday...

Techs in AKAI Japan are not announcing a HDD option for the MPC1000 yet. And it appears to me that its for a very good reason. The socket that would hold the HDD connector - have a look ... http://stereoroid.com/sounds/mpc1000/inside.php is a custom 50pin connector

hmmm 50 pin...

now the connector that sits below the AKAI memory slot is also 50 pin....hmmm ide drives dont conform to 50 pin you need adapters and you can go from CF to IDE but not the other way round. (correct me if Im wrong)

From what I understand the CF cards have a built in controller and HDD's dont.

so what we have left is SCSI HDD .. but wait a second same problem no SCSI controller board.

but on this image it says HD connect - http://stereoroid.com/sounds/mpc1000/images/hdconn1.jpg.

hmmmm......




HOLD ON... after some research I found this - http://www.adtron.com/news_story.html?pr=38 heres some info if you havent clicked the link yet...

Model A25FB Flashpak™ Scheduled Delivery in Late July 2004

London, England (Farnborough International 2004, Hall 2, Stand B22) – July 20, 2004 – Adtron Corporation, a Phoenix Arizona-based embedded data storage manufacturer, announced today the first commercially available 2.5-inch Serial ATA (SATA) flash drive for the defence, aerospace, commercial aviation and industrial markets. Serial ATA extends the most comprehensive line of flash drives—Adtron’s Flashpak™ family—available in the market today, which includes IDE and SCSI interfaces in 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch form factors.

First deliveries of the A25FB begin in July 2004. With this first release, 2.5-inch capacities extend up to 40GBytes with sustained read/write performance in the 40 MByte/sec range. Soon to follow is the 3.5-inch—the A35FB Flashpak—with capacities up to 64 GBytes. Both the A25FB and A35FB provide either commercial (0 to 70 degrees C) or industrial (-40 to 85 degrees C) temperature rated drives.
Quantity pricing for a 16 GByte A25FB flash drive with a industrial temperature rating is $11,200.00. For more information, contact Adtron Sales at (602) 735-0300 or by e-mail at [email protected]. Lead-time is stock to eight weeks ARO.





WHAT do you THINK?

damn fresh

my1k wrote:Techs in AKAI Japan are not announcing a HDD option for the MPC1000 yet. And it appears to me that its for a very good reason. The socket that would hold the HDD connector - have a look ... http://stereoroid.com/sounds/mpc1000/inside.php is a custom 50pin connector

hmmm 50 pin...

now the connector that sits below the AKAI memory slot is also 50 pin....hmmm ide drives dont conform to 50 pin you need adapters and you can go from CF to IDE but not the other way round. (correct me if Im wrong)

From what I understand the CF cards have a built in controller and HDD's dont.

so what we have left is SCSI HDD .. but wait a second same problem no SCSI controller board.

but on this image it says HD connect - http://stereoroid.com/sounds/mpc1000/images/hdconn1.jpg.

hmmmm......




HOLD ON... after some research I found this - http://www.adtron.com/news_story.html?pr=38 heres some info if you havent clicked the link yet...

Model A25FB Flashpak™ Scheduled Delivery in Late July 2004

London, England (Farnborough International 2004, Hall 2, Stand B22) – July 20, 2004 – Adtron Corporation, a Phoenix Arizona-based embedded data storage manufacturer, announced today the first commercially available 2.5-inch Serial ATA (SATA) flash drive for the defence, aerospace, commercial aviation and industrial markets. Serial ATA extends the most comprehensive line of flash drives—Adtron’s Flashpak™ family—available in the market today, which includes IDE and SCSI interfaces in 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch form factors.

First deliveries of the A25FB begin in July 2004. With this first release, 2.5-inch capacities extend up to 40GBytes with sustained read/write performance in the 40 MByte/sec range. Soon to follow is the 3.5-inch—the A35FB Flashpak—with capacities up to 64 GBytes. Both the A25FB and A35FB provide either commercial (0 to 70 degrees C) or industrial (-40 to 85 degrees C) temperature rated drives.
Quantity pricing for a 16 GByte A25FB flash drive with a industrial temperature rating is $11,200.00. For more information, contact Adtron Sales at (602) 735-0300 or by e-mail at [email protected]. Lead-time is stock to eight weeks ARO.





WHAT do you THINK?

I think you're a genious! Wow, great research work

The connector next to the memory is a factory test port.

'hmmm 50 pin... "

I am pretty sure about half of those are not even connected. The ribbon connector only has 40(?) connectors. CF cards appear as ATA devices so one may be able to connect a CF card to the internal IDE port. I have already mentioned this before.

" http://www.adtron.com/news_story.html?pr=38 "

Useless. It is a SATA and there are no SATA ports in the MPC1000.

mpc3000 wrote:The connector next to the memory is a factory test port.

'hmmm 50 pin... "

I am pretty sure about half of those are not even connected. The ribbon connector only has 40(?) connectors. CF cards appear as ATA devices so one may be able to connect a CF card to the internal IDE port. I have already mentioned this before.

" http://www.adtron.com/news_story.html?pr=38 "

Useless. It is a SATA and there are no SATA ports in the MPC1000.

Excuse my ignorance but where exactly have you mentioned this before??

What makes you sure its a factory test port?

If thats the case then in theory we could connect an IDE HDD to the the mpcs CF card reader slot via adapter > if the MPC has an onboard IDE controller & if such and adapter is available.

Your insight is greatly appreciated "MPC3000".