On Thu, 4 Nov 2010 21:42:55 -0000, "Gareth Magennis"
put finger to keyboard and composed:

In this case there is no OS on the disk at all, the 2480 does not boot from
it.
I have successfully upgraded the 2480's OS via MIDI onto its onboard Flash,
with no valid hard drive installed. The drive is purely storage.

What do you use for backup?

FWIW, here is a thread where someone needed to retrieve audio data
from an Akai MPC2000 sampler:

http://forums.seagate.com/t5/Savvio-...dows/m-p/37618

The file system was a proprietary implementation of FAT16. As in your
case, the MPC2000 used the drive for storage, not booting.

- Franc Zabkar
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