Share your knowledge on these two classic MPCs
By jazzroom Wed Dec 03, 2025 5:57 pm
Hi MPC fam,
i've bought a Zulu SCSI Pico Slim from Studio-Services in Germany.
its has a CD card formatted for use with MPC3000 and i can see lots of partitions on MPC3000
partitions in size 32636K is this normal? 32mb ?

issue :
ive lost 2 beats already because after saving to partition A All programs and All sequences including samples they dissapear when i turn MPC back on :(
There is only 1 beat that ive previously saved that is on that partition A it shows that there is 483K space left
but there was no message that there is not enough space to save my sounds when i was saving Beat that ive lost.. normally on MPC u should see a message not enough space ..
i can see MPC saving files in a progress bar text to Partition A though.. but they age gone after restart.

what am i doing wrong.. i am confused
thanks in advance for any ideas guys
peace
Jazz
By SofaRocker Tue Dec 30, 2025 6:32 pm
I don‘t have a Zuluscsi yet but i assume the safest thing to do would be saving every project / beat on a different 32MB partition.
32MB partition file size makes sense to me since the MPC3000 has 32MB RAM and you can‘t have bigger projects than that.
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By WASKMUSIC Fri Jan 09, 2026 9:11 am
For Zulu handling:

Save each "project" to one of the partitions, for example project 1 to SCSI drive 1 Partition B and so on.
(i personally NEVER use the Partition A on the first SCSI drive - just a habit.

If using Vailixi 3.50 make sure to turn MULTISECTOR LEVEL OFF in the setting.
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By Dustyfinga1.0 Tue Jun 23, 2026 10:18 pm
Anyone else having issues getting the Zulu SCSI Pico Slim to work on the 3000? SCSI fuse is not blown and was replaced with a resettable fuse. It worked perfectly the first couple days and now I can’t figure out why it isn’t being recognized. Opened it up and checked all cable connections and everything appears to be fine. I followed all instructions that came with the Zulu as well. Any suggestions are welcome as I’m a bit frustrated ATM.