Technical questions for the MPC2000xl and the MPC2000
Byswimming ming Sat Jan 03, 2004 8:50 am
Hello all -- i just got an mpc this afternoon used and i just joined tonight. I also just bought an external 250mb zip drive for my mac. I'm tryin to figure out how to get the mpc to recognize my mac formatted zip disc. I read somewhere you could do it -- but I can't find it now. Yes -- the disc is 100mb, as is the mpc's drive. Someone please HELP! Thanks and everyone have a radical new year. Peace.
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By itchyvinyl Sat Jan 03, 2004 8:54 am
Just use a PC formatted zip disk. The Mac and the MPC are both able to read PC format.

Byswimming ming Sat Jan 03, 2004 5:57 pm
Cool -- I've heard that as well. If my soundfiles from my mac are all wav files made on the mac, the mpc should still read these then? The zip disc I picked up says it's pc/mac -- so that should be fine right? I don't think I even had to format it when I put it in my external drive. I swear I thought I read something on this site though that said you could change a setting in the mpc for mac formatted discs. What do you think? Thanks. Peace.
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By aaron Sat Jan 03, 2004 6:22 pm
Yeah. I made the mistake of buying all mac disk at first.... Then i bought pc/mac and couldn't figure out how to format those...

So just stick with pc formatted disk, they should definitly work.

By homershines Sat Jan 03, 2004 6:26 pm
I use any type of zip disks and I use a Mac G4 w/ OSX and OS9.22. You can re-format the blank Mac zip disk in the MPC or even re-format it in the Mac as a DOS or Windows zip.

Good luck.

Byswimming ming Sun Jan 04, 2004 4:35 am
right on -- i formatted the disc to dos and it works perfectly. rock on. Peace. thanks.