Technical questions for the MPC2000xl and the MPC2000
By Phiba Optix Mon Oct 24, 2005 5:37 pm
Just a quick question, what SCSI devices are compatible with the MPC 2000? I often see people selling MPC's with an External SCSI Zip Drive (Iomega). But is this the only SCSI device that is compatible?

Or is it possible to use a SCSI hard drive or CD ROM? If so, is everyone of these compatible? or just certain ones?

Thanx in advance

Phiba

By Phiba Optix Mon Oct 24, 2005 5:41 pm
Also forgot to mention the 'Jaz' drive... never heard of these before but I've seen them on ebay and they look like they have incredible storage capacities.

Phiba
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By stryke Mon Oct 24, 2005 5:50 pm
Zip,jazz,and hd(depending on the size).That's for the 2k at least.

By Phiba Optix Mon Oct 24, 2005 6:38 pm
Thanx, so just not the CD ROM basically?

Which would you recommend? I'm looking towards the Jaz drive... but it depends how big of an hard drive I could get... any idea on what the max size HD you can use is?
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By stryke Mon Oct 24, 2005 6:41 pm
What model you have?Last i heard i think it's 4gigs or something like that on the 2k.You can use a cd burner i was told but it has to go through the outs and not the scsi drive.

By Phiba Optix Mon Oct 24, 2005 6:59 pm
I have the classic early MPC 2000 with 32 Meg RAM.

I think I'm gonna get the Jaz drive... does my MPC definately support it?

I've only had my MPC 3 days and already the floppy discs are killin me, lol...

My first track spanned across 5 discs!
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By Lampdog Mon Oct 24, 2005 7:00 pm
I have a plextor scsi hd and a plextor scsi cd rom.

My scsi hd drive is 9gb. My scsi cd rom is well, read only.

scsi zip, jazz connection should be just like connecting a scsi hd.

cd burner, yeah, mpc main outs.

By Phiba Optix Tue Oct 25, 2005 9:55 pm
okay so 9gig HD's definetely work?

Problem is, on ebay all I'm seeing is like 80gig HD's and 200gig HD's... will these work?
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By stryke Tue Oct 25, 2005 9:58 pm
I've heard that's too big for the 2k but i've never tried to partion/format a harddrive.For that matter,never even used one.I'm sure someone will give you the specs in a moment.
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By Lampdog Tue Oct 25, 2005 10:26 pm
They might work but thing is do have to partiiton them to get working?
Why, because maybe the 2k/2kxl will only handle a certain size partition.

Phiba, u should look into that, let us know what you find out.

By Phiba Optix Tue Oct 25, 2005 10:52 pm
Yea I'll definately try and look into it if I can get my hands on one. I just been speaking to Class and he has a 'Card Reader'

Can anyone shed any light on these for me?
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By Lampdog Wed Oct 26, 2005 2:15 am
I also have a mpc2kxlse2:

Had a floppy drive - took it out and replaced with internal 250 zip drive..

Had a 250 zip drive - took it out and replaced with a internal cf reader
"p3tr" gave me info on the cf reader and I ran with it, no questions asked.

The details and info are in the first link in my sig.