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By hookahfeend Wed May 25, 2005 3:06 pm
I recently purchased
MPC2000XL with a Microtech muti card reader
+ External Zip drive

My problem is that the SCSI ID for both the internal flash card reader I am using (Smart media) and external zip are set to 5. This means I cannot load or save to both sources in the same session. I have to turn off my MPC and unplug the scsi cable in order to access the flash card.

My question is how can I reset the SCSI ID for the internal card reader?

I cannot change the ID for the external zip because it is either 5 or 6 and the MPC is 6. Therefore, I can only change the internal card readers ID. I believe that each card slot has its own SCSI ID. If I switch the scsi ID of the slot Im using with one that I will never use will there still be a conflict if the slot is empty?

Please help
- D

P.S. You may wonder why I want to use zips when I have a flash card. Back ups are precious!
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By pt3r Wed May 25, 2005 8:40 pm
I guess you can change the id of the microtech drive by setting some bridges differently on the back of the drive.
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By hookahfeend Thu May 26, 2005 1:35 am
Cool, I found a link on this forum to the Flash Card manual. It does mention something about the little black boxes controling the scsi Id. It is really confusing though, but I'll try and figure it out.

Thanks for the reply

P.S. whoever installed the Flash Card reader on my MPC wasn't thinking clearly! :x