I was wondering what the best way to copy 2 hard drives to one large primary drive? For example: copy all music from one 30gb hard drive and one 40gb hard drive to one 160gb hard drive? Then I was going to buy a IDE to CF converter and buy CF cards. Like the ones below.

ide to cf converter, holds 2 CF cards

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0036DDXUM/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&th=1

128gb CF card like below, just get a 256gb or 512gb

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00NUB2TWI/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&th=1

So then wondering if it would be the same technique to copy over to the large CF card as it would be copying to a large IDE hard drive.

So what is the easiest way?

Note that the "dual CF" ide-to-CF convertor, when populated with two CF cards, counts as TWO drives for empeg purposes. The maximum number of drives usable in the empeg is TWO.

Cheers

From: http://www.riocar.org/Drive_Upgrade.html

Follow the steps to "copying files (special circumstances only)". It gives step by step instructions on how to copy the files between two disk drives plugged into the same player.

There is a note in the steps:

When changing over to CF cards, will it work as long as I only have one of the cards plugged in when I am copying files over from the one drive to the one card using a dual CF ide to CF convertor?

Honestly, if you can manage it, plug everything into a Linux box with USB adapters and do it that way. Then you don't need to worry about how many drives are supported. It's so much quicker.

What Roger said!

But yes, a single CF card works fine inside the dual-CF adapter.

I am not to well versed in anything Linux. What is a Linux box?

"box" refers to a computer, because they were traditionally beige-coloured boxes (other colours were available). It tends to be used as shorthand for "computer", even if that computer is not in a box -- or even if that computer is virtual and doesn't exist physically.

Linux is the operating system used by the empeg. You can also run it on a normal PC (a "Linux box"), such as the one that's under my desk right now. It also runs something like 95% of the internet.

Because modern PCs are significantly faster than the empeg, it's my preferred way to mess around with empeg hard disks.

If you were expecting a literal turn-key "Linux box", well, such things exist, but they're a bit niche.

But: if you're not "well versed in anything Linux", that might be a step too far.