Saturday, December 17, 2016

MPC 1000 Compact Flash Hard Drive

Rather than put a 'moving parts' hard drive into my MPC 1000 I was reading on mpc-forums about using a CF card instead. This was all pretty easy, steps below!

Stuff to buy

  • HDM10 adapter - I managed to get one from Thomann, but they do not appear to stock this anymore, so eBay may be your best bet or mpcstuff.com.
  • CF to IDE adapter - I found this one on eBay and it worked out of the box.
  • CF card - I went with this one (4 GB) from Amazon and it worked out of the box.
Stuff to do
  • You need to take off the front of your MPC to get at the hard drive slot, there are videos on youtube on how to do this, for example watch the start of this video.
  • Assemble everything - plug the CF card into the IDE adapter, then plug the IDE adapter into the HDM10, then plug to HDM10 into your MPC hard drive slot (with the MPC off).
    • The IDE adapter pins are aligned to the right (see pictures below)
    • I put some card underneath so stop the adapter hanging (see pictures below)
References
  • A very good set of instructions on how to do this here, Google can translate if needed
  • The MPC forums thread on the subject here.
Pics



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