Yeah, you will loose partitions. From what I can work out the problem lies with Windows trying to be too clever for its own good and in the process screwing up the disk. The MPC2000xl seems to follow all the 'protocols' (i.e. it is fully ASPI compliant) correctly but its Microsoft F-ing everything up AGAIN!!!
I 'get round' this by never using partitions on my zip250 drive. With the directories on the MPC2000xl its no problem but the last mpc2000 I had with the then latest o/s did not support directories.
I think AKAI need to go the extra mile and sort out 'correct' scsi transfer support (and directories on the mpc2000) to combat the idiot that is Microsoft.
The other thing that really gets on my nerve is Microsost putting device limits on devices all the time: Win 95 only 11 midi devices, although 'fixed' in 98. Then along comes Win2000 Pro with a new low level driver type, which seemed like good news for latency. WRONG! They did it again, by putting a stupid device limit on the number of input/outputs.
What is wrong with them? Its two forward one back all the time....
Cheers and sorry for the moan.
Pali Gap