OK, I think I'm gonna install a card reader in 2KXL...

Tadmen wrote:I have just put one in my MPC2000XL yesterday. Works like a charm!!!

Ordered it directly from the manufacturer:
http://www.amtron.com/reader/iisdmc.htm


Tad

i tried ordering this drive and their sold out. they're on back order. WEAK!

chiZleo wrote:

Tadmen wrote:I have just put one in my MPC2000XL yesterday. Works like a charm!!!

Ordered it directly from the manufacturer:
http://www.amtron.com/reader/iisdmc.htm


Tad

i tried ordering this drive and their sold out. they're on back order. WEAK!

so thats why theyve been avoiding me

so thats why theyve been avoiding me[/quote]


anybody else got another source for a working flash drive? preferably in black? yeah.

http://www.psism.com/iisdmc.htm

they've got two types one for $45 and one for $59. even says right there on the screen works with mpc ... yadida yadda

the one i asked about on the bottom of the third page comes with a black front.

Hey bridgealantee, maybe you're right, maybe that's why the're avoiding ya.
Write them, maybe. Maybe I will, too. But then again, I'm not in a hurry.

We'll see.

I'll let you know if I know anything more

Sorry to put you throu all this. It worked for me really well and really fast last week

T.

birdbrain wrote:the one i asked about on the bottom of the third page comes with a black front.

they said they didn't have any drives of the such in black. but dude said you could easily spray paint it yadida. came out to $68 even for the iisdmc2 model. they said it'll take about a week to come through. PATIENCE

it says in the description that each one comes with a black bezel.

Ufff,

I needed mine in beige and that was what I got the first time. So mine should be in the mail somewhere in the US...

You can spray paint it anyway you want. Camo or pink

T.

I just ordered the one from digitalera friday, and i got it today. PERFECT.
And the face of it you can take off and remove the light cover glass and paint it.

I gonna get my mpc paintet with airbrush. I promise that i will get the fatest mpc 2 k in the whole world.

I get back with picture.

PEACE

received my drive from http://www.psism.com/iisdmc.htm

installed it just the way everyone else did.... connected to motherboard with 40 pin ide flat cable from radioshack and powered it through a power connector.

i turn on my mpc ... and NO LUCK. all lights turn on and screen says "MPC 2000XL"

but..... about once out of every 10 times i turn it on it will boot and go to the main screen on the OS. but when i try to load my cf card it doesn't read the drive it says "NO FLOPPY"

i noticed when i turn on the machine the light on the drive will flash briefly and turn off. when the light stays on, the machine boots but still does not detect atapi.

i'm stressin here son... SOMEBODY PLEASE HELP!!!!!

chiZleo wrote:received my drive from http://www.psism.com/iisdmc.htm

installed it just the way everyone else did.... connected to motherboard with 40 pin ide flat cable from radioshack and powered it through a power connector.

i turn on my mpc ... and NO LUCK. all lights turn on and screen says "MPC 2000XL"

but..... about once out of every 10 times i turn it on it will boot and go to the main screen on the OS. but when i try to load my cf card it doesn't read the drive it says "NO FLOPPY"

i noticed when i turn on the machine the light on the drive will flash briefly and turn off. when the light stays on, the machine boots but still does not detect atapi.

i'm stressin here son... SOMEBODY PLEASE HELP!!!!!

Not sure why it freezes sometimes but you need to make sure the jumper is in the proper place in order for the MPC to see the reader.

i set the jumper to master. still no luck.

LAMPDOG said try setting the primary device to ATAPI pg 153 xl manual.

i tried and my machine does not have the option for atapi. it says floppy, SCSI 0-7, and F-ROM, but NO atapi. i'm running OS 1.14

i'm scared to turn off my mp, cuz it doesn't always boot the drive!

STRANGE

chiZleo wrote:but when i try to load my cf card it doesn't read the drive it says "NO FLOPPY"

I think you might have installed it wrong. Peep:

MIDICASEdotCOM wrote:Installing a Zip100 or Zip250 is relative straightforward and simple. Either ATAPI or SCSI will work. ATAPI will be easier to find and I imagine a bit cheaper.

Also, when an ATAPI Zip is installed, replacing the floppy, the floppy controller gets disabled by the system and the MPC doesn't search for it, which is a good thing since it isn't there anymore.

When SCSI used, the floppy controller is not disabled even though the floppy is not longer there and when you go to open or save the MPC tries to search for the floppy and just returns an error. It doesn't hurt anything but just annoying, so ATAPI is probably the preferred one to use. Also the an ATAPI Zip needs to be configured as MASTER.

M.ic P.ro C.rusher wrote:

chiZleo wrote:but when i try to load my cf card it doesn't read the drive it says "NO FLOPPY"

I think you might have installed it wrong. Peep:

MIDICASEdotCOM wrote:Installing a Zip100 or Zip250 is relative straightforward and simple. Either ATAPI or SCSI will work. ATAPI will be easier to find and I imagine a bit cheaper.

Also, when an ATAPI Zip is installed, replacing the floppy, the floppy controller gets disabled by the system and the MPC doesn't search for it, which is a good thing since it isn't there anymore.

When SCSI used, the floppy controller is not disabled even though the floppy is not longer there and when you go to open or save the MPC tries to search for the floppy and just returns an error. It doesn't hurt anything but just annoying, so ATAPI is probably the preferred one to use. Also the an ATAPI Zip needs to be configured as MASTER.

so should i set it up with scsi? and, if so which scsi number? and how?