From: (wrong string) önig <www.access_at_my-mail.ch>
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 11:03:01 +0100

Hi everyone!
Yesterday I updated my Archos recorder with this drive:
Hitachi DK23EA-40
40.0 GB 2.5" IDE HDD-ATA5-4200U/Min-13mS-9.5mm/2048 KB Cache
http://www.hitachistorage.com/hdd/support/dk/2/23ea40spec.html

available in germany at http://www.berger-daten.de for approx. 147
Euro.
the drive is very silent and fast. a good choice I think.
at this place they have also a neat usb-case
(http://www.datafab.com/products/data/MD2-USB.htm) for approx. 21
Euro where you can put your old drive. this way you get a cool
external hdd for backup and stuff.

How I did partioning/formatting:
1. replaced my old notebook hdd with the new one for the archos
2. since Award BIOS 4.xx can't recognize drives > 30 GB, I turned off
"auto"-recognition of drives in the BIOS and switched it to "none"
3. boot from floppy using the hitachi/ontrack "diskmanager"-disk
(http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/download.htm#diskmgr2k DL the
"Diskette Version")
4. partion and format the drive using "advance options"
5. changed the drives again and changed the BIOS settings back the
way they were
6. put the new drive in its place but don't fully reassemble it yet!
check the functions and booting the rockbox firmware first.


that's it


greez,

Peter
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Received on 2003-01-23