Not reading all the print . . .

I got an external card reader and it won't work on my 3000 . So I go back to the eBay page I got it from and all the way at the very bottom it says it won't work w/o 3.5 . .

I was planning on getting it anyways but I guess now it'll be sooner than I thought . Looks like you'll be getting some of my Christmas money Rohan .

I finally got and installed my 3.50 ( ) and the MPC is working perfectly but this card reader still won't work w/ it . All that happens is all the lights come on and stay lit on the front . It's a Spyrus RD300 flash card reader . Anyone know what might be wrong ?

And on a side note : Rohan's the man . Epitome of a professional business person .

Change the Settings in the MPC to Multi Sector Mode which should make it work.

Already have it on . The weird thing about the drive is that when I unplug the scsi cable from the back of the MPC it starts up normally, the lights all light up for a sec and then all go off except for the power light . There's only four lights, one for the power, one that says error and one for each card slot .

And you set the SCSI ID to like 5 or 6 still nothing. I have the same drive I think and I don't have any problems with it on a 3000 or my XL.

Just got done trying it on 5 & 6 . I'm assuming I use scsi devices the same way I did w/ my 2K . Turn it on 1st, then my MP, right ? My zip drive works fine so it's not the MP . And I've tried different cables as well .

W. Steele wrote:Just got done trying it on 5 & 6 . I'm assuming I use scsi devices the same way I did w/ my 2K . Turn it on 1st, then my MP, right ? My zip drive works fine so it's not the MP . And I've tried different cables as well .

Yeah always remember this when you use external storage devices with the MPC it's Power On MPC Last & Power Off MPC first.

So your CF drive is hooked up to the MPC and turn the MPC on and it just hangs with the card reader hooked up and all the lights on the CF drive are lit up? and I am assuming there is a card in the reader?

Card in the card reader . Turn it on 1st and all the lights stay lit, turn the MP on and nothing changes .

If you hit the DISK button does anything happen?

Nope . Went into disk, other and then tried to make it active and still nothing .

W. Steele wrote:Nope . Went into disk, other and then tried to make it active and still nothing .

But when you got DISK does it even have the option for format?

blown scsi fuse in the mp. that was my prob-sent to vst-i thought it was the disk drive but it wasn't-my scsi id is on 4.multi sector on-make active is on auto-bus reset is on-timeout is on 2

deegood wrote:blown scsi fuse in the mp. that was my prob-sent to vst-i thought it was the disk drive but it wasn't-my scsi id is on 4.multi sector on-make active is on auto-bus reset is on-timeout is on 2

Yeah but he said his Zip Drive works when he hooks it up so it's not the SCSI Fuse.

fasttrackpimp wrote:

EDIT- Found the thread.

http://www.mpc-forums.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=94230

Cheers fastrackpimp.

Suggestion to anyone reading this referenced thread.

Read it all.

Rohan.