ayo elmacaco speak up more on this bootin the os from disk!

about the problems u could possibly face and or the downsides to it please dont sugarcoat and say people will only get paranoid!

im not elmac, but i have no problems booting 3.11 from disk.

all you could ruin is your disk drive, as soon as i ruin mine ill pick up the chips. till then im good.

how could u ruin the disk drive .....i can see u corruptin the disk itself etc but damaging the drive itself sounds alil off to me.

just using it to much. its unlikely but possible, i wouldnt streess over it.

It wasn't me, I really don't know what the issues could be, I think it was MPC3000, or MPC3000LE, something like that.

It was me ...

Ok ...

You ready ?

The way an MPC3000 boots and allocates it's internal work space memory via the CPU memory control registers when booting a *.SYS file and running the OS loaded from floppy is quite different and far from optimized when compared with loading from ROM. ( This is nothing to do with wave/sample memory )

IE: The machines internal memory mapping layout operates in a way that is not as high-performing when compared with how the OS initialises when it is run from ROM.

In simple, this and the reduced available SEQ memory when booting from floppy disk are pretty solid reasons why "FLOPPY-BOOT-DISKS" are only ever one shot use devices.

You'll minimise the potential for MANY different types of "OS errors" that can happen on a machine.

Highly recommended to make certain an MPC3000 is loaded with it's OS in ROM.

You dig ?

Rohan.

I dig it, I would certainly shell out for the chips man, cat's don't sleep on this rare knowledge.

how much for that chip?

"That chip" is a pair of chips.

Contact an AKAI service centre.

Thanks,

Rohan.

Someone said $50