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#28129 - 14/03/2001 10:29 Possible use for spare IDE channels on Mk1?
Geoff enthusiast Registered: 21/08/1999 Posts: 381 Loc: Northern Ireland	I was looking through Slashdot the other day (as you do) and found this link to some guys who had made a homebrew half width 1U web server. The intriguing thing was that instead of a hard drive, they used a CompactFlash card which can behave as an ATA drive if wired up just so. It got me thinking... Take a Mk1 with two IDE channels going spare (and no room for another HD) or a single drive Mk2. Hack in one of these modified CompactFlash cards (say 48MB) Now it isn't going to be any great shakes for storing music, but it would make a nifty shock-resistant permanent RW partition for some cool projects... Is this even remotely feasible, or am I suffering from sleep-deprivation induced fantasies??? Just a thought... Geoff ---- ------- Got one of the first Mark 2 empegs... _________________________ Geoff ---- ------- Mk1 Blue - was 4GB, now 16GB Mk2 Red - was 12GB, now 60GB
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#28130 - 15/03/2001 05:02 Re: Possible use for spare IDE channels on Mk1? [Re: Geoff]
jane enthusiast Registered: 10/10/2000 Posts: 350 Loc: Copenhagen SW, Denmark	I have an adapter IDE to Compactflash Bought at www.tapr.org item no 940-383-0000 (or is that the phone no?) PCB no LSC-5 94V-Ø 3688 I can put up an image if you want
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#28131 - 15/03/2001 08:55 Re: Possible use for spare IDE channels on Mk1? [Re: Geoff]
bobo member Registered: 13/08/1999 Posts: 116	so it´s theoriticaly possible to connect 4 drives to a MK1 !?? bobo
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#28132 - 15/03/2001 11:50 Re: Possible use for spare IDE channels on Mk1? [Re: bobo]
mtempsch pooh-bah Registered: 02/06/2000 Posts: 1996 Loc: Gothenburg, Sweden	Yup, as it it comes with two IDE interfaces and each IDE interface can handle two disks - just like any normal PC. You'd have to make/aquire new cables, as the ones used in the MkI are just 2 connectors with ~10cm of cable between them. And, of course, somewhere to put the other disks... /Michael _________________________ /Michael
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#28133 - 16/03/2001 11:59 Re: Possible use for spare IDE channels on Mk1? [Re: mtempsch]
carrera84 stranger Registered: 12/09/2000 Posts: 46 Loc: NC, USA	Are two IDE headers also available for the Mark2? How are the HDs configured? Two Masters or one Master/Slave pair? It would be quite cool if you could push a play list onto a compact flash card for one of those tiny mp3 players. Drive up listening to a playlist. Dump the next 45 minutes onto a compact flash. Jam the flash into an tiny mp3 player. Walk around still listening to the same playlist. Jump back in the car. Tell the empeg to skip up to the place you left off. Hobby job? Next Rio product bundle? -jim <MkII:080000260 18G blue> _________________________ -jim [blue]080000260[/blue] w/18G in a [green]Carrera[/green]
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#28134 - 16/03/2001 12:00 Re: Possible use for spare IDE channels on Mk1? [Re: carrera84]
tfabris carpal tunnel Registered: 20/12/1999 Posts: 31578 Loc: Seattle, WA	Are two IDE headers also available for the Mark2? No, the Mark2 has a simplified design with only one IDE header. Two drives on a Mark2 are configured as a master/slave pair. ___________ Tony Fabris _________________________ Tony Fabris
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#28135 - 16/03/2001 14:14 Re: Possible use for spare IDE channels on Mk1? [Re: tfabris]
carrera84 stranger Registered: 12/09/2000 Posts: 46 Loc: NC, USA	That's a bummer, but I still really like having a volume knob... -jim <MkII:080000260 18G blue> _________________________ -jim [blue]080000260[/blue] w/18G in a [green]Carrera[/green]
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