Where do I get the zip upgrade?

Does anyone know where I can get the official zip kit upgrade for my2000xl from Akai? And has anyone had any major problems with the zip kit from Akai?

Try a search on Google for 'mpc zip kit' - should bring up a few places that stock it.

Alternatively,

http://www.mpc-tutor.com/tutorials/zip.htm

no problems at all, mane....worth it.....

You can order it from Musicians Friend and American Musical Supply, I believe it's still going for $120

I've looked everywhere on the net and I can't find it

I went to a PC store and got an internal 250mbZIP drive and installed it myself cause the kit is way overpriced to me.

I want to just buy a 250MB internal drive from a store but I am scared it won't work due to the issues that come up in the MPC not recognizing the drive or booting up. I just bought the MPC new 3 months ago so does the age of when the machine was manufactured have anything to do with whether a 250 mb drive will work in it. I am also very interested in an internal cf drive. If I wanted to go that route what kind of drives would I need to get for my computer and MPC and how is saving different when using those drives.

I don't think the manufactured date will matter.
You cannot use an internal CD drive with mpc2kxl, SCSI CDR only.
You can't save on SCSI CDR with mpc2kxl.

I was talking about a compact flash drive like MPC3000 has in his MPC's

ok

DJ Illustrious wrote:I've looked everywhere on the net and I can't find it

How hard did you look?

http://www.arbitergroup.com/pricelists/html_pricelists/akaipricelist.htm

http://www.onlinerock.com/mf_store/key/e/Expansion_Boards/Akai_ZIP_MPC2_Comple_702131.htm

Page 1 and page 3 of Google results

Complete waste of money though. All the parts come to around $50 from any online computer store. Where does the other $70 come from? It's even worse on the UK price, a 200% markup!

AFAIK, there are no issues with any 100MB zip drive, only some 250's.