emusonacid!

Hi there,

just came across this IDE ATA bracket-mountable SD card reader in eBay:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Bracket-SD-SDHC-MMC ... 2544wt_990

So here's the idea: With 16GB DC cards lower than $50 these days, on can think of replacing the hard drive with this reader and an SD card. Now, the beauty of this type of reader is that you can bolt them into of the back panel expansion ports (well, you would most probably have to make two new holes in the reader's bracket). So that everytime you want, you just take the card from the back, plug it into the PC, and make a backup copy of it (you would need OS 4.7 to format the card using FAT).

My question is: Do you think the SD card's read and write times would be good enough to completely boot and operate the sampler from the SD card? Let me know what you think!

Cheers!

If you read the thread on adding a removable usb drives, many of the issues involved with removeable media have been addressed there. The biggest problem is that the ide stack on the ultras is not as robust as the scsi stack, so it is less likely to support non-standard hardware. However, the reader is fairly cheap, so why not give it a go and see what happens?