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CF-01 Harddrive (modified 0 times) pete Profile I am supposed to get mine today. Been reading though japanese threads using the translating option and it appears from what I can tell that the HD is a non-standard drive. Anybody rip theirs open yet? 04-13-2001 04:58:38

RE:CF-01 Harddrive (modified 0 times) Groch Profile | Email The best pictures I have seen of the guts so far are here: http://www5.big.or.jp/~yosizawa/pc/2435/ 04-13-2001 19:26:55

RE:CF-01 Harddrive (modified 0 times) Groch Profile | Email OOps, Hit reply to quick. The translation of the text above the dissembly pictures say it is a 12.7mm thick 2.5 inch drive, which should be easy to find. It also says: "When such toy is bought, nature of the high-tech type ƒIƒ^ that it stops wanting to disassemble by any means. Disassembling promptly, you tried looking content" It seems there is a universal geek drive to rip things apart. There are some good pictures of the memory modules as well. Wonder how easy those will be to upgrade? 04-13-2001 19:36:20

RE:CF-01 Harddrive (modified 0 times) paqman Profile Hi all, I'm also interested in getting on CF-01, hopefully I'll have one to tinker with by next weekend. About the harddrives, having 12.7mm size... does that mean we can also use the more current©ommon 9.5mm drives? (I'm completely unfamiliar with these drives, just that when I try doing a search I could only find 4GB 12.7mm drive, and anything bigger than that would be 9.5mm. There were also mention of 'old style screw\mounting'.) TIA -paqman 04-14-2001 02:03:00

RE:CF-01 Harddrive (modified 0 times) Glitch Profile paqman: I put up a quick picture of the hard drive mounting points here. The newer high capacity drives have the newer style mounting points (duh). Since there is room for a 12mm drive, there should be room for a newer 9.5mm drive and an adapter plate (assuming that the bottom mounting screws are used). If the side mounting screws are used in the CF-01 it will be a bit harder to mount a newer HD, but not impossible. Glitch Electronics run on smoke, if you let the smoke out they won't work 04-14-2001 09:04:36

RE:CF-01 Harddrive (modified 0 times) pete Profile Still waiting for mine....best to take an image snapshot with ghost or similar. Plug n play never worked that well with 95 so re-install problems should be probably expected. 04-14-2001 11:55:30

RE:CF-01 Harddrive (modified 0 times) paqman Profile Glitch : Thanks. I guess until we find a good solution to output (high quality) audio, there's not that much point (for me, at least) in dreaming of increasing storage space. Both for mp3 and mpeg\video storage. Btw, I'm not familiar with terminal services. Can you utilize the server to decode mpeg2\dvd\divx? Given high enough bandwidth to transfer the decoded images (Gigabit network...) -paqman 04-15-2001 07:48:22

RE:CF-01 Harddrive (modified 0 times) lensman Profile | Email Hey, don't give up on the 12.5 mm high 2.5 inch drives. The highest capacity drives (48 gig, I believe) are still 12.5 mm. The largest available 9.5 mm drives are 20 gig - soon to be 30 gig. Lensman 04-15-2001 22:16:10

RE:CF-01 Harddrive (modified 0 times) dynomite Profile I opened up my CF-01 and took a look around. It was not that difficult to open it up, but I do want to mention that there are two screws on the inside of the CF-01 that you need to remove. If you open up the battery and hard drive compartments you will see them in each corner. The hard drive is a Fujitsu M2724TAM. Here is a link to the specs. http://hdd.fujitsu.com/global/drive/m272x/m272x.html The removeable memory has these numbers on it. SEC KOREA 628Y KM44V4000ALS-6. Its a 144 pin fast page mode SODIMM (Crucial tech support) They also said they do not make them. The Fujitsu hard drive is ATA-3. I am looking at getting a larger hard drive but it is ATA-5. Is it backwards compatable like pc hard drives? Pin config the same? We probably will will have the bios limitations if we get anything over 6.4 gig but I will install the overlay software which should be ok. 04-16-2001 08:09:55

RE:CF-01 Harddrive (modified 0 times) tcbordp Profile Dynomite: Are you sure that it is 144 pin sodimm, from the picture I saw it looked like a 72 pin sodimm which would be more likely given the motherboard and age. A 144 pin sodimm has a notch in the midle of the contact area and is about 2 3/4 inches wide (2.67" something). A 72 pin sodimm has no notches in the contact area and is only 2 1/4 inches wide (2.35" something) This is the link for a PDF (acrobat) file for the 72 pin sodimm, the diagram is towards the bottom. http://images.micron.com/pdf/datasheets/modules/DM89.pdf This is the link for a PDF for the 144 pin sodimm, diagram at the bottom, noe the notch. http://images.micron.com/pdf/datasheets/modules/DM83.pdf Compare them and figure out which is the one in the cf-01. If you asked crucial for FPM in an 144 pin sodimm they woulnd'y have any but they do have it in a 72 pin sodimm. One thing, a 72 pin sodimm has 144 pins if you count the front and back, a 144 pin sodimm has 288. PeteB 04-16-2001 16:10:31

RE:CF-01 Harddrive (modified 0 times) tcbordp Profile Dynomite or others: Please reply on the memory thread to keep things easier to find. PeteB 04-16-2001 16:25:07

RE:CF-01 Harddrive (modified 0 times) paqman Profile Do 12.5mm drives have the same mounting points as the 12.7mm (old style) ? I can't seem to find any reference to mounting points, just that the new style (9.5mm) can accomodate old style drives but not vice versa. Also, does anyone know how 9.5mm drives compare with 12.7\12.5mm in power consumption? It may be worth it to make the necessary modification to the caddy\brackets to install 9.5mm drives if they use up less juice... and, erm, operating temperature difference? -paqman 04-18-2001 16:46:37

RE:CF-01 Harddrive (modified 0 times) tcbordp Profile The drive in the CF-01 has the mounting holes towards the center and uses the side holes to hold two spacers to center it in the space available. I don't think it would be too hard to make replacement spacers from plastic to match the hole spacing on a newer drive. At first I thought there were tracks that the rails matched but there don't seem to be which means the only critical thing is the thickness of the rails. As far as power and pinout goes, all 2.5" laptop drives (with one or two really old exceptions) use the same pinout so that is not an issue. A newer drive might be slightly less power, the one installed is listed as 500ma at 5v if I remember correctly. The biggest issue with a shorter 9.5mm drive would be filling the space above it so that it would not move and strain the connector. PeteB 04-19-2001 13:46:18

RE:CF-01 Harddrive (modified 0 times) Groch Profile | Email Quick note on removing the hard drive. 2 Steps, first remove the single screw that is dead in the middle of the bottom, the only one that is not counter sunk. The Hard drive door is right next to the battery door. Press down on the side of the door, closest to the battary door to unclip it, it slide off towards the top of the unit, the exact opposite from the battery door. I am not responsible for the results of following these directions. Indeed this uses the "old style" mounting from the picture by Glitch, and the screws are attached from the sides as mentioned by tcbordp. Although the web specs said 12.7mm the hard drive specs say 12.5 although my guess is either would fit. Compgeeks is selling used Toshiba 10 gig 12.5mm model that looks to me it they would drop right in for $139. A picture and specs are here: http://www.toshiba-europe.com/diskproducts/products/hdd/mk1011gav.htm Anyone with any better solutions? 04-19-2001 18:58:36

RE:CF-01 Harddrive (modified 0 times) tcbordp Profile If you go over 8G you will probably have problems accessing it all. You may even have problems with the bios not reporting it correctly which can make partitioning a real pain. This is based on the age and design of the motherboard but we might be lucky and not have any problems. PeteB 04-19-2001 19:18:51

RE:CF-01 Harddrive (modified 0 times) dynomite Profile Am looking into several possibilities right now. Waiting for technical specs compatibility issues. I will post info as soon as I get it. Groch if you can hold out for a couple of days I will post a list of hard drives with hard drive size and prices. 04-19-2001 19:25:50

RE:CF-01 Harddrive (modified 0 times) ssproule Profile You can get the 9.5mm drives for a fairly cheap price. An IBM 20 gig is only $128 at gogocity.com http://www.gogocity.com//product_details.asp?dept%5Fid=211&pf%5Fid=CO02HDD0303&mscssid=EX7E6SW06DSR2JNR00JP42PFCUBP3KDF. I have bought several of these for other laptops and not had a problem. I just got my cf-01 tonight (thanks bus_depot) but I will try a couple of drives in mine this weekend. Sure there may be a mounting issue but I don't think it will be too hard to get around 04-19-2001 20:14:20

RE:CF-01 Harddrive (modified 0 times) Glitch Profile ssproule: How quiet are those IBM 20GB drives? Glitch Electronics run on smoke, if you let the smoke out they won't work 04-19-2001 20:44:14

RE:CF-01 Harddrive (modified 0 times) lensman Profile | Email I'm back in the 9.5mm drive camp. I've decided to upgrade my Nomad Jukebox (don't make fun of me, I bought it before I knew about the Archos) to a 20 gig drive (30 if I can hold out until IBM releases their new 30 GB 9.5mm drive). I'm then going to transfer over the old 6 gig drive to my CF-01. Here are the specs of the IBM 20GN series 9.5mm drives (PN DJSA-220/210/205): Dissipation (W) Startup (max peak) 4.7 Seek (typical) 2.3 Read (typical) 2.0 Write (typical) 2.1 Performance idle (typical) 1.85 Active idle (typical) 0.85 Low power idle (typical) 0.65 Standby (typical) 0.25 Sleep (typical) 0.1 04-19-2001 22:27:24

RE:CF-01 Harddrive (modified 0 times) pete Profile Got mine Tuesday. All I have done is charge the battery. I will make an image of it before I start to play. Will post as an ISO image on some free drive this weekend. 04-19-2001 22:37:56

RE:CF-01 Harddrive (modified 0 times) JunkLeo Profile Good thinking, Pete. I was thinking to do the same thing: make a ghost image before messing up the CF-01 HD. While I am waiting for my 10/100 PCMCIA ethernet card from Amazon. I cannot resist the temptation to turn it on. Before I know it was already in Win95. :( (I forgot to plug in keyboard to stop it :)) I think everyone will appreciate your effort. Leo 04-20-2001 12:06:50

RE:CF-01 Harddrive (modified 0 times) pete Profile Ghost Image was only around 180 Megs; nice small and compact. Will compress and break into little smaller downloadable pieces. 04-20-2001 12:57:07

RE:CF-01 Harddrive (modified 0 times) yellow1 Profile | Email don't you need to repartition to use ghost ? i'm more familiar with drive image and it's required. 04-22-2001 10:10:34

RE:CF-01 Harddrive (modified 0 times) Steve Profile | Email Has anyone found out if the CF-01 bios will see drives bigger than 8GB? If so I might want to buy one a 20GB 9.5mm drive to put in there. Also I spent some time yesterday on the web trying to find a drive adapter so the newer drives can be mounted with the old mounting holes in the CF-01. I found these two places but the prices were high - $27, $27, and $56. http://www.bixnet.com/laphardrivca.html http://www.goessex.com/store/storage_hd_new.html#1158 sounds like there might be a need for a codeman/badflash special. I haven't opened up mine yet so I haven't seen the mounting situation. 04-26-2001 11:29:39

RE:CF-01 Harddrive (modified 0 times) tcbordp Profile Steve: I just looked at both of those vendors various adaptors and I don't think any would work. The first adaptor is the closest but they all require the drive to be located higher than normal, which won't work in the space inside the CF-01. I have had my drive out several times and I am very familiar with this sort of problem in other computers. The good news is that I don't think it will be that hard to make adaptors. The rails on the sides of the present drive do not really engage slots, they are more for side to side spacing. There is a subrail on one side that I think ends up under a projection inside the drive bay but it is far from critical dimensioning inside. After looking at them for a while I am going to stop by a hobby store and buy some plastic. The only even slightly hard part of fabricating new rails with the holes at the ends will be countersinking the screw heads. I don't know if it is worth the effort to reproduce the screw attachment on the one rail to holds in the drive (the screw in the center back of the case) since the rubber bumper that goes in the end should keep it firmly in place. PeteB 04-26-2001 14:33:30

RE:CF-01 Harddrive (modified 0 times) Groch Profile | Email I have quite list of questions about HD Upgrade options, but I don't think any have been finally answered yet. 1. With hard drives 8 gig and smaller, is it a plug and play auto-recognize procedure or do we need to get a utility to access the bios with the HD specs? 2. Anyone tried a HD more than 8 gigs? Does it work? Would it work with one of those Ez-drive utilities? 3. Anyone tried mounting one of the 9.5mm drives? How'd ya do it? 4. Suggestions: any good cheap sources for replacement drives 6 gig and up? Sincere thanks in advance to anyone who can answer any of these. 05-05-2001 07:27:01

RE:CF-01 Harddrive (modified 0 times) Steve Profile | Email Has no one tried a harddrive bigger than 8GB? 05-09-2001 04:58:55

RE:CF-01 Harddrive (modified 0 times) Groch Profile | Email No luck on my first try upgrading the harddrive. It appears that even with a less than 8 gig drive (I am using a 5 gig) the bios needs to be adjusted to accept a the new parameters. I am getting an I/O hard drive error messages when I try to boot. Anyone have ideas how to get into the bios to adjust things? Any utilities around that would help? 05-14-2001 19:04:54

RE:CF-01 Harddrive (modified 0 times) JunkLeo Profile try this ftp://ftp.firmware.com/utils/setup.exe It can set up the drive type in Bios under dos, use it on your own risk. I ran it once but didn't try to set anything (I have no notebook HD to try). Leo 05-14-2001 19:40:48

RE:CF-01 Harddrive (modified 0 times) Groch Profile | Email Junkleo, thanks for the suggestion. I am beginning to think you cannot change the hard drive without a different bios. The program you suggest does let me look at and type in new hard drive parameters. However, when I reboot I get a brief message that says something like "Bios autoconfig" and then the same I/O error. When I again access the bios the original HD parameters are back. I am not certain whether these parameters are built into the bios and not changeable, or whether it just reverts to the original if the new parameters I am typing in are incorrect. (the CF-01 bios does not let me type in as many cylinders as the HD actually has so I am not quite sure what I should put in that spot, the heads and sectors I am OK on, and I understand Pre/LZ are no longer important, size just fills in itself). If anyone has more ideas let me know. 05-16-2001 04:36:24

RE:CF-01 Harddrive (modified 0 times) JunkLeo Profile I remember I saw in some Japanese web sites say the IBM 2435 comes with 800MB HD or 1.6 GB, it means the HD is upgradable. I don't think Panasonic is stupid enough to build in the HD parameters to Bios (for example, the HD supply changes). Maybe the Setup program didn't save the parameters. Can you try to set HD type and reboot without plug in the HD and check the parameter again to see it is still in CMOS. If not, I will find other setup programs tonight (can't do too much at work :). BTW what is you HD parameters? Maybe I can try to set them myself before give you other setup programs. Leo 05-16-2001 07:38:45

RE:CF-01 Harddrive (modified 0 times) jim52 Profile | Email Don't know if this helps, but I actually put in a *smaller* hard drive (840 meg) when I was ghosting some images - it booted up fine. HTH -jim 05-16-2001 09:02:27

RE:CF-01 Harddrive (modified 0 times) tcbordp Profile I changed the 1.6g that came with the cf-01 for a 2.1g I had when I installed win98se and didn'thave to change any bios settings. Also, I downloaded the above program and ran it, without changing anything, and when I rebooted the bios settings were all wrong. Pen calibration was gone and going into the settings utility that came with the cf-01 listed virtually everything changed. I have tried several of these sort of generic setup programs and the problem with them is that there really isn't a standard for the way that the cmos memory is used. Some settings are similar but others can be totally wrong, and there is no way to tell be looking at the setup program screen. Also, there are extended settings that these programs can't access at all. Using the above program it said my disk was a type 2 614 heads and such, a standard AT hard drive setting. Using another setup program it said it was a type 127 with the specifics all showing as 0, which would be more understandable if this is a autodiscover setting. As a note, someone in the winme thread says they have a 6G in theirs, presumably without any bios changes. PeteB 05-16-2001 14:09:02

RE:CF-01 Harddrive (modified 0 times) sbryant Profile I have a 6gb hard drive installed without any bios changes, but b4 everybody gets to excited I must point out that the drive is split into 3 seperate partitions. I originally configured the drive using a laptop (233mmx) and intentionally did not use large drive support in fdisk so that I would not have problems installing the hibernation utility because previous postings had suggested fat16 only. Each of the partitions are approx 2gb and I use the 2nd partition (D) because I like the continuity of loading windows from a seperate location, anyway I created a directory for the setup and *.cab files and copied them over from the cdrom. I then cheat a litte bit to avoid processor problems by staring the install whilst the drive is still in the laptop. Once the install is ready for the first reboot I transfer the drive into the Cf-01 and continue the install to then discover hardware etc. I am sure this is not quie what you wanted to hear but I do at least have 6gb capacity now and I am sure the same could be done with larger drives. 05-16-2001 16:08:13

RE:CF-01 Harddrive (modified 0 times) JunkLeo Profile The partition size is irrelevent for Bios to recognize the HD. For example, my old Pretium Pro motherboard cannot detect the 20GB HD even if I set the HD into many small partitions. I guess the CF-01 Bios can auto-detect the HD, but we don't know the upper limit for it. Normally for the old bios is 8 GB, but anyone can try any size HD and post result here. Groch, maybe your HD is bad? Leo 05-16-2001 19:06:17

RE:CF-01 Harddrive (modified 0 times) Groch Profile | Email Well I'm real confused. My five gig drive has been divided into 2 partiions, the primary is FAT to enable hibernation (about 2. gig) the logical is FAT 32 , about 2.8 gig. When hooked to my main system as Master on my 2nd IDE channel both norton disk doctor and Partition Magic say everything is cool. both partitions check with no errors. When I boot to partition magic on the CF-01 I get an error message that says: Disk 1 4887MB 662c 240H 63S appears to have partitions created using s different drive geometry 255h 63S. It say partition magic and my OS can't do anything about it, I should back up the data, delete the partition, and start again. PM cannot see the 2 partitions when booted from te CF-1, just one large one it says is bad. Put the drive back into my main system, and boot to Win2000 or WindowsME using the PM boot disk, everything is fine again. Very Odd. 05-16-2001 21:08:27

RE:CF-01 Harddrive (modified 0 times) stretch Profile | Email Well I tried a 10G drive last night with no luck. I also tried using a bios overlay from Maxtor and no luck. The Maxtor install program showed the drive as disk2 not one don't know why ? The drive was set up to be the master and no other drive was in the slot so I think that some how the bios has been pre-programed for one certain drive and maybe we need some sort of service disk to change the bios to accept a new drive. Also if you hold down alt, ctrl, & s when you first boot you get some sort of weird screen that shows all the "F" keys at the bottom but only responds to F1 and then reboots. Anyone ever see this before? I need to find out what the cutoff limit is for a new drive 8G, 6G , 2G or what ? Anyone need a 10G drive ? 05-18-2001 10:44:01

RE:CF-01 Harddrive (modified 0 times) JunkLeo Profile the weird screen shows a floppy drive on the top and 12 function keys on the bottom. I think it will show up if no bootable HD present. I saw it every time when I removed my HD and rebooted. From Maxtor: http://www.maxtor.com/products/DiamondMax/techsupport/q&a/30004.html Q04: What do I do if my system BIOS does not support the capacity of my hard drive? A04: There are three possible answers to this question: 1. Install the Cylinder Limitation Jumper (J46 on the Maxtor hard drive) and use the MaxBlast or MaxBlast Plus software to prepare the hard drive. The application of the Cylinder Limitation will NOT decrease the capacity of the hard drive. NOTE: If needed, user's may obtain MaxBlast from Maxtor. See How to access the MaxBlast Plus Software at the end of this document. 2. Upgrade the system BIOS and/or Motherboard. 3. Purchase/Install an Enhanced IDE Interface (EIDE) card with an onboard BIOS that provides support for large capacity drives. It seems we can only try the first solution. http://www.maxtor.com/products/DiamondMax/software/maxblast/default.htm You may want to try it. Leo 05-18-2001 13:58:05

RE:CF-01 Harddrive (modified 0 times) tcbordp Profile Groch: The problem you are seeing is because there is more than one way to handle large ide drives. When large drives first appeared there were several different schemes to address the overage. Early schemes usually upped the number of heads to lower the cylinder number which was usually the problem. Finally the industry settled on Linear Block Addressing (LBA) which ignores Cylinders / Heads / Sectors (CHS) and just counts blocks (sectors). I remember having more than one machine that could be set for either LARGE drive support (CHS with modified heads and cylinders) or LBA drive support and if you partitioned in one setting you would get a similar error is you switched to the other setting. The gist of it is that you need to repartition and format the drive in the CF-01 which isn't too bad an issue since the floppy drive is available. After that your other laptop may or may not be able to access the partitions correctly. If it is a newer machine it should be flexible enough to handle the Large CHS settings. Also, odds are that the problem with the 10G drive is the old 8G limitation that came up with early attempts to support large ide drives. This would tend to support my hypothesis above that the cf-01 is using an early large ide support bios setup (modified CHS), not a current LBA based setup. PeteB 05-18-2001 14:44:13

RE:CF-01 Harddrive (modified 0 times) Groch Profile | Email PeteB, Thankyou! You da man! And thanks to everyone who helped suggest stuff. PeteB was right, I just had to Fdisk it while in the CF-01 and everything works fine. I got a moderately cheap 5 gig IBM drive from Compgeeks, which is 12.5mm. That size fits snug enough that with the rubber spacer at the door there is no need for rails. Unless we find a way to make MP3s play, 5 gig should be plenty big. It would be good to know that one of the disk installing utilities could make the CF-01 recognize 8 gig plus disks. I would think that could be done. 05-18-2001 15:50:56

RE:CF-01 Harddrive (modified 0 times) pete Profile I ordered the same 5.1 gig drive...looking at the pic it appears that its an older style type drive that would let me continue to use the rails. Were you able to attach rails? 05-18-2001 18:44:27

RE:CF-01 Harddrive (modified 0 times) Groch Profile | Email No,its the new type, the rails won't fit. You have to be careful its centered when you press it into place. Other than that the lack of rails does not matter. 05-18-2001 18:56:30

RE:CF-01 Harddrive (modified 0 times) stretch Profile | Email Hey thanks for all the feed back ! Now one more ? in my case with the 10G drive should I partion it for 1 l0g par or 2 5g par ? I was thinking of doing this in my desk sys and then transfer to cf-01 I like using partion magic. My fix on the side rail issue is to believe it or not, duct tape it to the drive it works for me. 05-18-2001 21:48:31

RE:CF-01 Harddrive (modified 0 times) Groch Profile | Email If you want to upsize your CF-01 harddrives the Compgeeks have a very very nice deal today on a new 18 gig for $97. http://www.compgeeks.com/details.asp?invtId=MHJ2181AT It is 12.5mm deep which is perfect. The mounting holes appear to be the new style so they won't accept the CF-01 brackets, but if its like the 12.5 mm IBM I bought, it will fit very securely just using friction and the rubber end spacer. The only challenge I see is that it appears you would need to use a utility like EZ-Bios for the CF-01 to recognize the entire drive because of the 8 gig limit of its older bios. You may have to purchase the utility. If anyone has actually done this yet with a large drive please let us know how it went. 06-14-2001 16:15:50

RE:CF-01 Harddrive (modified 0 times) CoolMaui Profile If anyone needs good overlay software, you can get it here http://www.ontrack.com/fujitsu .... Supposedly DiskGo! is far supierior to other progs, and in this case, its free!! The disclaimer says its only for Fujitsu drives; It may be, I dont know. Let me know if someone is able to get large disk support (larger than 8gig ) with this software..... 07-11-2001 22:17:50

RE:CF-01 Harddrive (modified 0 times) fireman54 Profile Looking through this thread, it seems that no one has been able to install a larger HD. I would like to be able to put a 4GB HD in mine. Can anyone tell me if this would be possible? Thanx. 07-12-2001 15:50:52

RE:CF-01 Harddrive (modified 0 times) ouzome Profile Well looking through this thread it looks like Grotch has a 5 gig hard drive working (possibly partitioned in half) and sbryant has a 6 gig working (and pete may have a 5 gig working). . .and it looks like STRETCH may have a 10 gig working. So yes, over 4 gig is possible. . .but good question. Can everyone who upgraded their hard drive confirm what brand, model number, and size they used? That would be most super duper. Thanks. . . 07-12-2001 16:45:38

RE:CF-01 Harddrive (modified 0 times) stretch Profile | Email Hi, I never got the 10g to work. The CF-01 has a 8g limit. I did get a Toshiba 6.4g 12.5 mm to work.Been looking for another on e-bay so far no luck. I'm sure a IBM or Fujitsu would also work. 12.5 fits better than a 9.5 . 07-12-2001 18:42:26

RE:CF-01 Harddrive (modified 0 times) CoolMaui Profile Can anyone tell me if it is worth my time and money to try to get a larger drive to work with overlay software? Dos anyone think that it is possible? I've also heard that when you use this software, there is a large decrease in speed, and that is something that we dont need on the CF-01..... Thanks- 07-12-2001 23:48:38

RE:CF-01 Harddrive (modified 0 times) fireman54 Profile I asked about the 4GB because I might be able to get one with the old mounting screw configuration. I'll let you know what happens when and if I get one. Thanx for the info. 07-13-2001 19:55:36

RE:CF-01 Harddrive (modified 1 times) DataBytes Profile | Email I installed a Fujitsu 6.4 Gig (MHH2064AT)and have no problems other than mounting it-- I used 1/8 non-conductive foam to replace the rails. hope this helps, Databytes 07-15-2001 21:50:18

RE:CF-01 Harddrive (modified 0 times) fireman54 Profile Sure does. Thank you. I'm pretty sure the BIOS should handle up to 8GB. I was just wondering if anyone else has had success in upgrading the HD. Thanx for your answer. 07-16-2001 13:27:34

RE:CF-01 Harddrive (modified 0 times) PeteC Profile I upgraded mine to 5.1 gigs with no problems 07-16-2001 16:35:30

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