what external cd drive for 2000?

hello... i have an mpc 2000 classic and was wondering what is a good external cd drive to use for loading samples from a cd to the akai... i got an external zip drive hooked up with a scsi - would it be possible to connect the cd drive to the zip to the akai? i have been transfering samples from a cd on a pc to a floppy, and then into the akai and saving them on the zip... its a long process and i am willing to spend the $ to get an external cd drive.... any suggestions and/or help would be much appreciated, thanks in advance.

peace,
j

What could you do with the words, *cd AND drive AND scsi AND 2000*? ...I wonder...

I think it may be possible to daisy chain the devices like you said. But I'm not really certain. Maybe someone else is.

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You can indeed daisychain a cdrom drive to the external zipdrive. You should ask yourself the question whether it is useful to have a cdrom drive connected to an mpc 2000 classic since the format of cd's an mpc2000 can read is different from the format a mac/pc/mpc2000XL can read. Making your own mpc2000 compatible cd's is a quite elaborate thing to do.

aight i searched a little about the format of the cd's.... is the problem the 2k has reading the samples from the folders? i save samples from cd's i have onto a floppy from a pc - then i load them into the 2k's floppy drive - it reads the wav files and when i save them on the zip they save as snd files(i think) and everything is fine. if i removed all the samples on these cd's from their folders and just had a cd of wav files, would the 2k read them off the cd drive? thanks for the responses....

j

No, you really need to make the cd's in an aki specific format, check the useful links thread it contains a link to a page that explains how to make these akai specific cdroms. That way you can judge for yourself whether it is worth the hassle.