Cleaning out a closet at my office yielded a little- or never-used MZ-R2. I'm trying to figure out if it's working.
Sorry this is lengthy, but this is what I know so far:
The display lights, it knows there is a disc, and the clock proudly displays 1993.
But I've been using Hi-MD for a long time. And unfortunately, I no longer have any legacy MD or NetMD players (unless there's one of those in a closet somewhere too--don't remember what happened to my MZ-N707). A 74-minute or 80-minute disc with Hi-SP on it shows track numbers but (obviously) won't play.
I do have the MZ-NH700. I tried using SonicStage 4.2 to initialize a 74-minute MD in NetMD mode, and I believe I did. It erased the tracks on the disc and made the da-da-ding sound. Then, however, it stopped recognizing the unit, popping up the Found New Hardware wizard and not finding a driver. (Luckily, SonicStage does still recognize a Hi-MD disc in the unit--phew.) So I can't transfer music over to see if it plays.
I tried recording on the formatted disc, and the REC blinks but the clock doesn't budge from zero.
What I'd like to do is put some SP music on there and see if it plays, and see if it will record. Are there NetMD drivers for SonicStage? Any other suggestions?