trouble saving

I'm having a problem saving my work on my mpc200xl, I have a compact flash drive installed to save my work but recently it's been difficult. I've been getting a message saying "unexpected read error" or "disk error" help pleeze

Im not familiar with the compact flash, but if it saves to disk try a new disk...as though you wouldnt have thought of that yet...what is compact flash?

mcd, it's new. instead of the zip drive u have the mcd

anthai wrote:mcd, it's new. instead of the zip drive u have the mcd

Muti Card Reader.

Check with another flash card, could be your flash card dying on you.

i put a card reader in my XL, which by looks seems to be the very same one that ships with the factory MCD.

it's the IISDMS from amtron.com.

i cannot seem to use my Microdrive (1gb) in it. after one or two disk operations, i'll get a ( Disk Read Error ) message, and then on the next operation i'll get ( Waiting... ) which never ends.

if i remove the disk during that, then i'll get another Disk Error and can resume.

even though i have 1.2 OS, i did try to partition my Microdrive as 900Mb primary instead of 1gb, but this didn't help - my guess is not the XL but an incompatability with the reader and the MD - possibly about power-states since the MD is much different in this way than normal CF.

my MD is a few years old as well... without some more debug details from the OS it's hard to tell what's wrong.

i have been using a traditional 512Mb flash CF and it has been working fine.

I use da san disk 1gig compact flash card and it was working fine for awhile and then the same stuff happened to me like you ^^