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i wouldn't want to go through all that mess.īut the floppy drive in the MPC2000 is almost certainly ATAPI - and there were ATAPI card reader drives made by Microtech (to fit in PC drive bays, of course).Īs i said above, the limitation would have been that the 2000 has to format the drive/floppy/card as "MPC2000" format (i think it's a FAT12 or FAT16 disk format, similar to the old Windows 95) in order to be able to boot from it.įor me, it wasn't possible until i got a Mac with OS X. in where the floppy is, yes, it would be a tall order. Now, if you were to mount a *SCSI* card reader drive like the PCD-47B, etc. Again thanks for the info and would you mind if I pm you if I have any other questions. I'll have to start the hunt for the pieces and work a little Dr. I guess you can mount a cf reader inside the 2000 but it requires flipping the scsi port inwards and splitting it. I've been on the mpc forums alot lately trying to piece together what works and what doesn't. Rfbutter wrote:No apologies needed, thanks for the info. Pc drivers for microtech usb cameramate card reader series#Sorry for the long windedness, but that's the skinny on the PCD series of drives and the MPC2000. but i'll bet it will work on the 2000 as well. This is all speculation - i have a hard-on for putting a card reader in my MPC so i can be all slick-like, just like XL users have been doing so i'll do it some day (XL users have thier OS on ROM, and so they can use ATAPI devices in place of the floppy no problem. it has to be MPC2000 formatted or the MPC will not boot from a disk/card. then you just copy the OS to the card after it's formatted. actually, you could have a SCSI drive MPC formatted with the OS on it, that might work. no OS on the CF card, no boot, but you have no floppy drive so you can't boot from it either. the limitation of ATAPI readers was that the OS on the MPC2000 was not onboard and had to be read from the floppy. you would HAVE to have a backup or multiple MPC formatted cards with the OS installed, or else you would be SOL. it's very quick, a good bit faster than floppy. if you could, you could get a MPC2000 formatted disk image (i have one as backup), slap the ATAPI PCD drive in the slot where the floppy drive normally lives and you would boot the MPC from the card. i use OSX and it reads the card i format in the MPC no problem - previously impossible in OS 9, and i don't know the deelio about Win98 or XP. Now, you *might* be able to use an ATAPI version of the card reader if your computer can read MPC2000 formatted cards. Pc drivers for microtech usb cameramate card reader zip#but everyone is starting to get wise to them, especially once you've gotten tired of the Zip drive game. but if you keep looking eventually on eVilBay you'll find one for 1/3 of that price or so. there are some web outfits that charge $150 or so for a complete drive, ready to go, which is not too unreasonable considering thier scarcity. The only place i know of to find them is on eBay, and you have to be diligent and patient to pick them up cheaply. ![]() ![]() Pc drivers for microtech usb cameramate card reader update#there is probably a PCD-47 that would likely work with the 2000 as well, they fiddled around with the 47B and it seems to work with the 2000XL but not the 2000 without being flashed with the firmware update (i have it somewhere if you need it). The PCD-40 does indeed work with the MPC2000, as do some of the older drives that fit in drive bays like the PCD-10/15/20/25 (saw this on, have never verified myself but the guy who wrote the page is very knowledgeable and apparantly took the trouble to test various MPC and Akai sampler models). i have a cheapo CF adapter that fits in the PCMCIA slot (that's all the PCD-40 has) and it works like a champ with my MPC2000. the cool thing is it reads Smart Media, CF and PCMCIA, otherwise with the PCD-40 you'd need a card adapter. my PCD-47B is like that, but i don't feel like ripping apart the wife's PC to put in a SCSI card to flash the firmware so i use it for another sampler. The most common one i see nowadays is the PCD-47B, but bear in mind not all of them have the proper firmware that allows you to write to the card - you'd need to search out the last firmware update that allows that, otherwise it won't work for some reason with the MPC2000. the PCD-40 is an intergrated small case (about the size of a small paperback, 4" x 6" x 3/4") and consequently it's not removable like some of the other Microtech/Intermart drives that go into desktop computer drive slots. The Intermart/Microtech SCSI readers have not been made in years, so it's highly unlikely you would find one in a retail store. ![]()
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