Mpc 2000 Floppy Emulator Mac

Hi, Im very interested in this HxC floppy drive emulator, very tempted to just order one and get started but just need a little clarification before I do. I read that if I take a disk image and send it in I could get help get the correct settings to be able to set my card / create correct images from the pc onto the card for use with the SD floppy emulator and my mpc.

I currently do not have a floppy drive in my pc or room to add one (internally), would I be able to make disk images using the software that comes with the HxC floppy emulator using a usb floppy drive? From what I've heard it seems I should have no problem at all using the emulator with my mpc, so fingers crossed if i am able to use an external usb floppy drive to make my images from my disks / boot disk then I'll get straight on and get rolling with the emulator. Regards EDIT: Probably a silly question I know, but id rather ask and get this worked out before ordering just incase. Lp_benni wrote:Hi, Im very interested in this HxC floppy drive emulator, very tempted to just order one and get started but just need a little clarification before I do.

Each sector is 1024 bytes long, giving a total of 800k (low density) or 1600k (high density). PCs use 9 or 18 sectors of 512 bytes and will not read Akai floppies without reprogramming. As far as I can tell, Mac floppy drives can't read Akai floppy disks at all. Unwritten bytes on a disk are set to zero.

My Passport WD Elements WD easystore. 'Mac OS Compatible' My Passport, My Book and WD easystore drives formatted with NTFS will mount as a Read Only file system when connected to a macOS computer. My Passport Essential SE. The My Passport Essential drive that you have purchased is preformatted as a single. NTFS partition for compatibility with all updated Windows operating Refer to Knowledge Base Answer ID 3323 for reformatting the. Drive to Mac OS X format. (See ID 3645 for formatting a Mac to the NTFS file.

I read that if I take a disk image and send it in I could get help get the correct settings to be able to set my card / create correct images from the pc onto the card for use with the SD floppy emulator and my mpc. I currently do not have a floppy drive in my pc or room to add one (internally), would I be able to make disk images using the software that comes with the HxC floppy emulator using a usb floppy drive? From what I've heard it seems I should have no problem at all using the emulator with my mpc, so fingers crossed if i am able to use an external usb floppy drive to make my images from my disks / boot disk then I'll get straight on and get rolling with the emulator. Regards EDIT: Probably a silly question I know, but id rather ask and get this worked out before ordering just incase Since the MPC2000 seems to use a dos type floppy format, this is not a problem. You can generate a virtual ms dos floppy disk with the software. About the USB drive, the HxC Floppy software doesn't support it. You need an internal disk drive.

There are some other software able to make a dump from usb disk drive. Thank you very much for your help, im glad I asked about the usb drive now, I'll have a look at the program u suggested. I have a couple more questions just to clarify, I know when copying an mpc 2k os boot disk I have to copy it onto an ms dos disk otherwise it wont work, but when I save sequences / samples to disk I have to obviously format them first in the mpc 2k so they are seen as mpc 2000 disks. So am I understanding correctly if what I have to do is capture the disk images as ms dos disks regardless to if they are an os boot disk, or mpc 2000 formatted disks that contain my sequence data / samples? I was also wondering aside from that, if I were to create lots of blank disk images on an sd card, and / or put previous data from my disks as disk images on an sd card. Is it possible to name them so i can view the disk names as I scroll through the selection?

Again thank you Regards. Lp_benni wrote:Thank you very much for your help, im glad I asked about the usb drive now, I'll have a look at the program u suggested. I have a couple more questions just to clarify, I know when copying an mpc 2k os boot disk I have to copy it onto an ms dos disk otherwise it wont work, but when I save sequences / samples to disk I have to obviously format them first in the mpc 2k so they are seen as mpc 2000 disks. So am I understanding correctly if what I have to do is capture the disk images as ms dos disks regardless to if they are an os boot disk, or mpc 2000 formatted disks that contain my sequence data / samples? The best is to get a pc with an internal disk drive, or get a kryoflux: With the usb disk drive you to test yourself. I have no sure answer.

Try to read them right now and post some image here, i can check them. OS's and MPC use the OEM label in the boot sector to decide which other fields in the BPB (the BIOS Parameter Block) at the start of the boot sector to trust on and which other values to leave alone. When you insert a disk into a Windows 95+ machine the OEM label is overwritten with a special 'IHC' checksum every time you access a floppy (even a simple 'DIR a:' with a non-write-protected media will be sufficient). No other changes are made to the media, however. This OEM label is 8 bytes long and is located starting at byte index 3 on the drive. What does this have to do with the MPC2000?