Hello Folks!

The drive in one of my Empegs, used at home only, died. I am intrigued by the Receiver Edition of v3a11 but have never tried it. What is the minimum hard disk size I need in order to use the Empeg as a Receiver? I am considering using a CF to IDE adapter and using one of the small CF cards I have lying around since I cant seem to find a new or reasonably priced very small laptop drive anywhere. Is it possible at all to run Receiver Edition without a drive? Thanks!

You do need a drive of some sort, as (like normal car-players, but unlike real Receivers) it loads its software from the drive. It only has to be large enough to be correctly partitioned and upgraded, though -- you could probably get away with 128Mbytes.

It might be possible, using a modified kernel, to get a Receiver Edition car-player to boot over NFS like a real Receiver, so no drive would be needed at all -- but AFAIK no-one's ever bothered putting the work in to try this, and it might not work.

Peter

Thank you for the quick reply, Peter. I will order a CF to IDE adapter and use an old 128mb Sandisk CF I have lying around.

-Julio