$17 cf drive. it works and ill post pic and link later tonit

does the drive come with the ribbon and power cables?

Anyone experienced issues with their MPC screen with the $17. reader? The screen issue is mentioned here for the Addonics reader: http://www.mpc-forums.com/viewtopic.php?t=41102

just got it today and would really like to know if it works

The fact that the originator of this thread went MIA doesn't seem too promising.

EMFinite wrote:does the drive come with the ribbon and power cables?

nah bro no cables or nothin just the reader itself

T7 wrote:Anyone experienced issues with their MPC screen with the $17. reader? The screen issue is mentioned here for the Addonics reader: http://www.mpc-forums.com/viewtopic.php?t=41102

nah i didnt experience nothing like that. i actually thought it worked great til i tryed to load up my first beat and it wasnt there. i hope more people have success with this reader, so i can figure out the problem.

RAZMATIC wrote:just got it today and would really like to know if it works

Try it out. post your results here. i wanna know whats up cuse mine is tripppin. that would be sweet if i can get mine fully working.

whoops double post...my bad

i got the drive, so now im just waiting for vst to send me the data and power cables...

sorry didnt mean to go mia. but ive been busy nursing a broken leg.
i had no probs with the screen when installing this drive. although i do know that if you install a drive with the wrong jumper settings to the ide port on the xl it will make the screen go blank on the bootup. but unplug and hook the drive up right and the problem resolves itself.
i tried to email the seller for info on bios for the drive just incase some of you needed to reflash it to be able to write. but i havent heard anything back from them.
what i can say is that my drive is working on read and write with no problems. i have a lexar 1gb card that i use.
i did order the black face drive and recieved the white instead. but i just shined that because i painted the drive face to match my front panel anyway.

@ LunaticBastard

is the $17 cardreader hotswappable?

mines not. but i obviously have a different drive than some other people have gotten hear. if i pull the card while the mpc is on it wont read in on the insert without a reset. not a prob for me cause all my sounds are on an internal hdd. i just use it for a backup of my ext hdd saves.

i can swtich cards while the mpc is on. What you do is go to "Device" and scroll to any scsi or any other and back to ATAPI and it should refresh the drive with the new card

EMFinite wrote:i got the drive, so now im just waiting for vst to send me the data and power cables...

thats a good idea i might get me a IDE cable from vst. lemme know how it goes with your reader

westlos420 wrote:

EMFinite wrote:i got the drive, so now im just waiting for vst to send me the data and power cables...

thats a good idea i might get me a IDE cable from vst. lemme know how it goes with your reader

You'd be better off getting those from your local PC retailer for a fraction of the price.

westlos420 wrote:i can swtich cards while the mpc is on. What you do is go to "Device" and scroll to any scsi or any other and back to ATAPI and it should refresh the drive with the new card

Do you work with the $17 cardreader from compuapps?

_Stilo_ wrote:You'd be better off getting those from your local PC retailer for a fraction of the price.

i already have a ide cable. but i think that the ide cable might be bad or something cuse of my saving problem

jasper85 wrote:Do you work with the $17 cardreader from compuapps?

yea i got me one a while back
http://www.mpc-forums.com/viewtopic.php ... highlight=

UPDATE: i loaded os 1.14 to see if anything changes and under OS 1.14 the mpc wont even detect the reader.

westlos420 wrote:i already have a ide cable. but i think that the ide cable might be bad or something cuse of my saving problem

is the firmware of the reader already updated?