Posted by: schofiel
Hard disk - 18/01/2002 12:21
How do you upgrade the disk size to something more useful? What spec disk, and how do you prepare the disk?
Posted by: Roger
Re: Hard disk - 18/01/2002 12:25
Theoretically, you just stick a new 3.5" IDE HD in there and use the "restore to as new" option on the upgrade CD. Hold down the menu button while it's booting up to bring up the upgrade CD menu, of course.
Note that I've not tried this.
You're probably limited to 128Gb with the version of Linux on there, though. And you'll probably want to get a low-noise disk (the new Seagates are pretty quiet).
Posted by: PaulH
Re: Hard disk - 18/01/2002 12:53
Don't you need UDMA-133 to break the 128Meg limit?
Isn't there room in that beast for 2 drives?
Paul
Posted by: Roger
Re: Hard disk - 18/01/2002 13:12
Don't you need UDMA-133 to break the 128Meg limit?
Probably. Yet another reason why disks that large can't be used.
Isn't there room in that beast for 2 drives?
In terms of internal volume, yes. There's only one IDE bus, though, so you'd have to disconnect the CD-RW.