Technical questions for the MPC2000xl and the MPC2000
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By -[TROjAX]- Sun Dec 14, 2008 3:13 pm
I want to replace the internal 3,5 Floppy Disk with a Compact flash card reader, where can i buy it ? i am located in germany, does anyone have some good advices ?

Thanx in advance
By digital022 Mon Dec 15, 2008 7:28 am
I would also like to upgrade the floppy drive to a MCD drive. The only place I know to get one for the mpc is on mpcstuff, but they only have the black drive and it's not hot swappable, meaning the card is not supposed to be removed while it's on. I'm still debating between a MCD drive and an external scsi 9gb hard drive.
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By Fung45 Mon Dec 15, 2008 10:44 pm
From what I understand:
The 2000 classic cannot have an internal multi-card reader without soldering a ribbon cable to the circuit board where the external SCSi port is because the classic has no internal SCSI port. I've heard otherwise from a few people on here mentioning some kind of IDE to SCSI converter and stuff like that but I still have yet to see solid picture proof of a no solder internal reader.
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By peterpiper Tue Dec 16, 2008 2:26 am
Well there is another way. Ok I didnt test this but I dont know why it should not work.
Instead of solder the cable to the board of the MPC (board could get demaged and doesnt look very nice) you could solder a D-Sub25 Plug (just like the SCSI Port on the MPC) to the ribboncable.

http://www.elektro-wandelt.de/index.php ... 9.29572407

Mount this D-Sub to the hole for the SMPT on the back of the MPC and connect it with the SCSI port of the MPC.

I guess its necessery to make some modifications to the SMPT hole but I would rather do this than deal with a solderiron on the SCSI pins of the PCB.

peace