Posted by: tooncesrocks
Differentiating Mk I from Mk II - 28/09/2001 18:15
Sorry for the newbie question, but can someone please explain the how to tell a Mk I unit from a Mk II unit.
Thanks,
TR
Posted by: rob
Re: Differentiating Mk I from Mk II - 28/09/2001 18:24
Visit
http://geek.empeg.com/ and go to the products section. There is a history of each revision.
Rob
Posted by: jwickis
Re: Differentiating Mk I from Mk II - 28/09/2001 18:27
Main difference is a Mk2 has round rotary button on the right side whereas the Mk1 has none.
A Mk1 has round left side buttons, and pretty much a smooth face to it, the Mk2 has a black plastic faceplate that looks similar to a airfoil shape.
The bottom two are Mk2's the top is a Mk1 in this [url=link]
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Posted by: bobo
Re: Differentiating Mk I from Mk II - 28/09/2001 23:08
aehm.... please follow the link that Rob posted to the geek site.
the rotary knob is definetly NOT the main difference!
bobo
Posted by: msaeger
Re: Differentiating Mk I from Mk II - 29/09/2001 04:55
they both have about the same functionality but the mk2 is much more refined
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Posted by: smu
Re: Differentiating Mk I from Mk II - 29/09/2001 06:36
the rotary knob is definetly NOT the main difference!
True. It is one of the most obvious differences, but I would enlist the differences as follow:
- Front panel changed, nice wing like design.
- rotary knob adds some functions to the front interface
- Ethernet interface added
- More RAM (the MkIIa adds some more)
- Single channel IDE controller instead of the dual channel one in the MkI
- Tuner module interface for the MkII, the MkI had a tuner included
There might be some minor other changes, but I guess, these were the most important ones.
cu,
sven
proud MkII owner (12GB blue/green/smoked, was #080000113 is #090001010)
Posted by: JaBZ
Re: Differentiating Mk I from Mk II - 29/09/2001 06:59
Single channel IDE controller instead of the dual channel one in the MkI
Does that in mean, 'in theory', the MK1 units can handle four harddrives?, master/slave on each channel?
Posted by: smu
Re: Differentiating Mk I from Mk II - 29/09/2001 07:08
Single channel IDE controller instead of the dual channel one in the MkI
Does that in mean, 'in theory', the MK1 units can handle four harddrives?, master/slave on each channel?
In theory, I guess it would, but I am not sure if it really would, cause I know there are IDE controllers out there that are only able to handle a single (master) drive, no master/slave combos.
One way or the other: There is simply not enough space in the case to fit four drives in.
cu,
sven
proud MkII owner (12GB blue/green/smoked, was #080000113 is #090001010)
Posted by: altman
Re: Differentiating Mk I from Mk II - 29/09/2001 07:37
...or enough PSU current to supply 4 drives spinning up concurrently, either!
Hugo
Posted by: jwickis
Re: Differentiating Mk I from Mk II - 29/09/2001 12:14
He did ask how to tell them apart didn't he? I was refering to the looks between the two, which IS the big difference and tells a person right away, since I've never owned a Mk1 that's all I can help him with.
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