Technical questions for the MPC2000xl and the MPC2000
By aes-one Tue Jul 22, 2003 11:16 pm
i have an internal SCSI zip drive installed in my 2000XL. its set as SCSI device 1. everytime i turn on the MPC, it says "SCSI NOT READY!" when I dont have a disk in there. when I do have a disk in there, whether it has data on it or not, it doesnt say this. this isn't a problem, but its kinda annoying. anyway I can get around this? thanks

By aes-one Wed Jul 23, 2003 12:32 pm
oh yea, it also says something similar wen I change devices to the floppy, becuase there is no floppy drive in there. any way i can tell the MPC to stop looking for the floppy? thanks
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By MPC-Tutor Wed Jul 23, 2003 1:05 pm
No apparently not - using the interal SCSI does not disable the floppy connection
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By fm_xtk Wed Jul 23, 2003 3:13 pm
I have got an internal ATAPI Zip 250 and it says that all the time. I think it is just a warning message because the MPC can't see a thing in the device in question, be it SCSI or IDE.
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By MPC-Tutor Wed Jul 23, 2003 3:28 pm
Strange - I have an internal IDE and the option for Floppy completely disappeared after install and was replaced by ATAPI

By mpc3000 Wed Jul 23, 2003 6:01 pm
The `problem` is that there is a setting to automatically load from a certain SCSI ID, floppy/ATAPI, or OFF upon startup. If a drive is not there, the MPC complains.

It's in the manual.