emusonacid! legacy

can it deal with a 20 gig ide drive? i want more storage space.

it most certainly can. The older eos could all handle at least 20GB drives so you shouldn't have a problem.

cool. now can i just unplug the 4.3 gig drive in it and just stick a 20 gig drive in and go or is there something else i have to do to make it work?
thanks,
j

if you already have a drive in there then yes.. just unplug and put in the new one. just be sure the new drive is set to master.

btw.. you won't get a 20gig drive i doubt.. the smallest available now is 40gb and they are the same price that the 20's used to be so even better for you!

rippin snare wrote:if you already have a drive in there then yes.. just unplug and put in the new one. just be sure the new drive is set to master.

btw.. you won't get a 20gig drive i doubt.. the smallest available now is 40gb and they are the same price that the 20's used to be so even better for you!

can i use a 40 gig with it? i thought they capped at 20 gigs. what's the biggest drive it can handle?

you can use pretty much any size drive I guess. I have heard of poeple going as high as 60gig though that and anything higher is pretty much overkill.

There has always been a rumour of the emu only handling up to 18gig or something but I think that was mainly because at the time that was about as high of a drive as you could get. Things have definately changed now. The newest EOS 4.7 can definately handle very large drives and even works in FAT file mode too.

enjoy.

rippin snare wrote:you can use pretty much any size drive I guess. I have heard of poeple going as high as 60gig though that and anything higher is pretty much overkill.

There has always been a rumour of the emu only handling up to 18gig or something but I think that was mainly because at the time that was about as high of a drive as you could get. Things have definately changed now. The newest EOS 4.7 can definately handle very large drives and even works in FAT file mode too.

enjoy.

so i could throw in a 200 gig ide drive and it might actually work is what you're saying? i thought the os only supported 20 gigs. it would be very night to throw some absurdly large drive in it and never have to mess with it again.

yup

though it is very unlikely you will ever go through a 40 gig or even a 20 gig for that matter unless you are an absolutely sick, off the hook, i sampler everything and never erase kinda guy.

remember... the largest a bank can ever be in the emu is 128mb due to ram loading restrictions. IT would take an awful lot to divide 128 into 20 or 40 gigs. You will never really use a full maxxed out 128mb bank to begin with.

rippin snare wrote:yup

though it is very unlikely you will ever go through a 40 gig or even a 20 gig for that matter unless you are an absolutely sick, off the hook, i sampler everything and never erase kinda guy.

remember... the largest a bank can ever be in the emu is 128mb due to ram loading restrictions. IT would take an awful lot to divide 128 into 20 or 40 gigs. You will never really use a full maxxed out 128mb bank to begin with.

yea i'll probably just stick a 40 gig in there then.

does it matter what rpm the hd is? can it hang with a 7200rpm?

oh it sure can handle a 7200 rpm drive. in fact i would recommend nothing but. Just get a good maxtor 7,200 rpm, 2m cache and you will be just fine! should run you under $100 for that.

if you really want to go all out.. western digital has drives with an 8M cache! now that would really speed things up.

its your choice however.

good luck.

rippin snare wrote:oh it sure can handle a 7200 rpm drive. in fact i would recommend nothing but. Just get a good maxtor 7,200 rpm, 2m cache and you will be just fine! should run you under $100 for that.

if you really want to go all out.. western digital has drives with an 8M cache! now that would really speed things up.

its your choice however.

good luck.

yea i'm seeing western digital 20 gig 7200rpm drives for like $67.