Exchange tips and tricks for the Akai MPC4000
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By JUKE 179r Tue Jan 29, 2019 10:47 am
If I remember correctly, any 40-pin IDE drive will work and the CD/DVD drive has to be set to SLAVE as the HDD is the MASTER.
Keep in mind if you install a DVD drive it will only read the DVD disc and not write/rewrite/burn to it.
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By JUKE 179r Tue Jan 29, 2019 11:37 am
tiger001 wrote:or you could add a CF reader/writer and/or you could a SSD with IDE->SATA convertor
(i did both)

I'm doing this next! :nod:
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By SnowMetal Tue Jan 29, 2019 5:58 pm
Thanks for the help everyone. I appreciate you.

JUKE 179r wrote:Keep in mind if you install a DVD drive it will only read the DVD disc and not write/rewrite/burn to it.


Hmmm.. I didn't know this. Thank you for the information.

tiger001 wrote:or you could add a CF reader/writer and/or you could a SSD with IDE->SATA convertor
(i did both)


Now this sounds very interesting indeed. Do you remember which units you used? Have you created a tutorial about this?

Thanks again.