Share your knowledge on these two classic MPCs
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By kebzer Tue Jul 29, 2008 6:58 am
Godamn that piece of ultra thick aluminium! First I had the screen. Fixed it after I almost had to remanufacture the whole circuit board by myself. Now it's the floppy drive.

I've already switched 3 different TEAC FD drives. None is working. Bought a new one from VST for 93$ (still hating myself on this). I installed it, it booted up fine, used a floppy from a friend, hit the DISK screen and it read the floppy fine. I navigated through the files nice and smooth and then tried to load up a .pgm. No luck as you would guess. That think kept on saying that there must be a faulty drive and I should restart the machine. I restarted and on the next try it destroyed the floppy. I then tried to format another floppy but no luck. It starts the process and then it says that the drive is again faulty. Wtf?!

This whole think is killing me. I've had my 60 for 2 months and still not able to use it. Oh man, I'm devastated on this...
By concepts Tue Jul 29, 2008 7:26 am
Daym man, sorry to hear that, here some things you should try.

check all wires (when you pulled them out they could have gotten damaged) also check if the contact look rusty, clean them with contact cleaner.

Try a brand new floppy disk.

Only use file made within YOUR 60. dont use any other files.

i dont know how bad static electricity is to these machines but you might want to consider something to ground your self with to prevent future damage.

you could have gotten a faulty floppy, so get your refund and try another. it is a far shipment and could have gotten damaged in the process.



BTW what are you running, from what i read, the 3.10 os seems to demand a new floppy a lot....
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By kebzer Tue Jul 29, 2008 9:33 am
Thanks for the tips!

I'm running the 3.10 and I guess it's really hungry for new drives. I'm gonna check the drive later today on a friend's 60 and see if it is faulty. Also, I guess I might have gotten the cable damaged, so I will try and switch it with a new one. Anyhow, this situation is frustrating cause I have to pretend to be a tech guy while I'm not.
By spectre Tue Jul 29, 2008 6:47 pm
My 60's floppy drive is fine but every once in a while I would get errors on disks and shit. I been using a card reader for almost 3 years and have not had one problem at all. Plus it's much faster and more reliable than a floppy disk. You might wanna look into it.
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By kebzer Tue Jul 29, 2008 7:55 pm
spectre wrote:My 60's floppy drive is fine but every once in a while I would get errors on disks and ****. I been using a card reader for almost 3 years and have not had one problem at all. Plus it's much faster and more reliable than a floppy disk. You might wanna look into it.


Can you give me some info on that cause I already own a 2kxl MCD and I would definetly love to see the same workflow on the 60.
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By 7 1 4 Beats Tue Jul 29, 2008 8:48 pm
kebzer wrote:
spectre wrote:My 60's floppy drive is fine but every once in a while I would get errors on disks and ****. I been using a card reader for almost 3 years and have not had one problem at all. Plus it's much faster and more reliable than a floppy disk. You might wanna look into it.


Can you give me some info on that cause I already own a 2kxl MCD and I would definetly love to see the same workflow on the 60.



Well your workflow wouldn't be the same but it would be easier than the workflow you have now just cause the card reader is so much easier to use.
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By kebzer Wed Jul 30, 2008 7:52 am
Definitely not the same workflow cause I use MPC-Editor and ReCycle. But anyhow, its easier to have a CF for loading/saving and also it's dead easier to chop on ReCycle and go back and load just the chops on the program than choping for ages on the 60.

Can you give me some info on the smart drive your're using? I know there's quite few posts around but I really can't be bothered right now to search, lol!