UPDATE: Still no luck or cigars...smh

Technical questions for the MPC2000xl and the MPC2000
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Re: UPDATE: Still no luck or cigars...smh

By mr_debauch Thu Mar 29, 2012 5:42 pm
any luck? maybe the ribbon cable is **** or the drive... O.o..

also, for floppies.. it would be formatted to FAT12.. hard drives etc get formatted to FAT16.

Re: UPDATE: Still no luck or cigars...smh

By imakebeats1999 Thu Mar 29, 2012 5:44 pm
Not yet, when I format...the only option it gives me is FAT...no numbers though

mr_debauch wrote:any luck? maybe the ribbon cable is **** or the drive... O.o..

also, for floppies.. it would be formatted to FAT12.. hard drives etc get formatted to FAT16.
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Re: UPDATE: Still no luck or cigars...smh

By mr_debauch Thu Mar 29, 2012 5:53 pm
imakebeats1999 wrote:Not yet, when I format...the only option it gives me is FAT...no numbers though

mr_debauch wrote:any luck? maybe the ribbon cable is **** or the drive... O.o..

also, for floppies.. it would be formatted to FAT12.. hard drives etc get formatted to FAT16.


okay well if there are no options, then it is formatting it in FAT12... that is the only FAT file system that is used on floppies.

Good luck, hopefully you get it sorted soon.

Re: UPDATE: Still no luck or cigars...smh

By imakebeats1999 Fri Mar 30, 2012 2:04 pm
Thanks, I will keep everyone posted
mr_debauch wrote:
imakebeats1999 wrote:Not yet, when I format...the only option it gives me is FAT...no numbers though

mr_debauch wrote:any luck? maybe the ribbon cable is **** or the drive... O.o..

also, for floppies.. it would be formatted to FAT12.. hard drives etc get formatted to FAT16.


okay well if there are no options, then it is formatting it in FAT12... that is the only FAT file system that is used on floppies.

Good luck, hopefully you get it sorted soon.

Re: UPDATE: Still no luck or cigars...smh

By imakebeats1999 Fri Mar 30, 2012 8:16 pm
Update: I found out that one of the computers at my job has a internal zip drive, I formatted it, updated the OS to 1.20 so now its on to the next step. I was told to set the motherboard to Master... how do I do that? BTW this CF reader only has 39 pins so I bought a 40pin-39-pin IDE Cable, is that OK?
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Re: UPDATE: Still no luck or cigars...smh

By mr_debauch Fri Mar 30, 2012 10:14 pm
it should be fine... you could have cut out the blocked hole on the cable at one end to fit in the mpc so you wouldn't need to break off that extra pin on the mpc motherboard.

the thing you need to set as master is not the mpc motherboard... it's the CF reader itself. there should be a jumper that goes on a couple of pins... make sure you put that to master if it isn't set up already.

Re: UPDATE: Still no luck or cigars...smh

By imakebeats1999 Sat Mar 31, 2012 2:46 am
Ok I set it to MASTER and just tried testing it out and nothing is coming up...went to setup and AT??? didn't come up at all....everything is plugged in correctly
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mr_debauch wrote:it should be fine... you could have cut out the blocked hole on the cable at one end to fit in the mpc so you wouldn't need to break off that extra pin on the mpc motherboard.

the thing you need to set as master is not the mpc motherboard... it's the CF reader itself. there should be a jumper that goes on a couple of pins... make sure you put that to master if it isn't set up already.
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Re: UPDATE: Still no luck or cigars...smh

By Lampdog Sat Mar 31, 2012 11:04 pm
This looks to be the SAME drive W Steele has recently placed into his 2kxl. He didn't have the ribbon cable seated firmly into the motherboard and cf device and he kept getting the same thing you are seeing, nothing, no ATAPI on the SETUP screen. Gotta make sure that ribbon is in firmly.


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(wait for it, wait for it...............)
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Re: UPDATE: Still no luck or cigars...smh

By Lampdog Wed Apr 04, 2012 4:18 pm
Did you even try different slv/mas/cbselect jumper settings on the cf device?
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