akai mpc 3000 problem with ejection virtual floppy

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Re: akai mpc 3000 problem with ejection virtual floppy

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hizerock wrote:@Jeff : can you tell me the mods to do on the reader?
Thank you
Connect the pin 4 to the pin 28 (wpt).

Floppy pinout page 25:
https://hxc2001.com/download/floppy_driv ... al_ENG.pdf

Once done just eject the image 1/2 seconds before reselect a new one.

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Re: akai mpc 3000 problem with ejection virtual floppy

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@gianitaly : thank you for the help, of course it should work as we have the same set up but it doesn't

@ Jeff : I'll try it ASAP

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Re: akai mpc 3000 problem with ejection virtual floppy

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gianitaly wrote:
gianitaly wrote:
Jeff wrote:@gianitaly & hizerock

New firmware in your email box :

Update it,

Set your switchs to ID0-A AND ID3-A.

Then on the emulator :

Remove the SDCard

Press select (middle button)
-> <Interface CFG >
-> <Custom>
-> <Pin 2 setting>
-> <nDensity>
-> <Pin 34 setting>
-> <nReady2> (the "2" is important ;) )
<Exit>
<Exit>

Let me know how the thing works.
Hi Jeff,

do you have the firmware for the mpc3000? I can't find nReady2 in my options with firmware HXCFE_V1_8_2_40 - MPC is not seeing an ejected disk operation.
thanks

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Re: akai mpc 3000 problem with ejection virtual floppy

Post by KlausVonGuterbauch »

Hello,
I recently bought a SDHC HxC floppy emulator, model rev f to use with my mpc 3000. But I don't have the 'nRead2' option in my firmware, which I got from the shared 'Quick install-floppy disk images' file in the forum. Can I request a firmware file including 'nRead2' option?
Thanks

email: muratogucu@gmail.com

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Re: akai mpc 3000 problem with ejection virtual floppy

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@hizerock : hi, I’m curious, did changing the cable at pin 4 work for you with ejecting the image?
hizerock wrote:
Tue Jun 18, 2013 10:19 am
@gianitaly : thank you for the help, of course it should work as we have the same set up but it doesn't

@ Jeff : I'll try it ASAP

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Re: akai mpc 3000 problem with ejection virtual floppy

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Leonard Charles wrote:
Sun Sep 09, 2018 4:15 am
@hizerock : hi, I’m curious, did changing the cable at pin 4 work for you with ejecting the image?
hizerock wrote:
Tue Jun 18, 2013 10:19 am
@gianitaly : thank you for the help, of course it should work as we have the same set up but it doesn't

@ Jeff : I'll try it ASAP
And you ? Have you tried it ?

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Re: akai mpc 3000 problem with ejection virtual floppy

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Hi,
yes it works to a point. I have to do the workaround by ejecting the virtual floppy then telling the MPC to load the ejected drive so that it says "Attention - There is no floppy disk in the drive", every time I want to load a or save on a new disk. Saving more than 1.44MB of data is also tricky so have to spread the data across multiple programs. It works well enough to be better than carrying around a bunch of floppy disks but it is not completely seamless.

Thanks for your help Jeff.


Jeremy

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Re: akai mpc 3000 problem with ejection virtual floppy

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Leonard Charles wrote:
Fri Feb 08, 2019 7:18 am
Hi,
yes it works to a point. I have to do the workaround by ejecting the virtual floppy then telling the MPC to load the ejected drive so that it says "Attention - There is no floppy disk in the drive", every time I want to load a or save on a new disk. Saving more than 1.44MB of data is also tricky so have to spread the data across multiple programs. It works well enough to be better than carrying around a bunch of floppy disks but it is not completely seamless.

Thanks for your help Jeff.


Jeremy
have you tried some different interface mode ?

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