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04-20-2006, 04:36 PM
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#1 | | Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2006
Posts: 82
 | 8 gig lifedrive, is it possible?
first of all, is there a guide out there to take apart a lifedrive?
if yes, my understanding is, that the lifedrive uses a 4gig microdrive...
if you have 100 bux to wast, http://www.excaliberpc.com/Hitachi_...-id-563948.html
and put that in there, is it that easy, or am i missing something? | 
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04-21-2006, 08:10 AM
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#2 | | tired and confused...
Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: London
Posts: 1,921
| If there is an LD2, this might be what is in it! However, installing it yourself wont work because of the complex partitioning etc of the HD for the lifedrive... | |
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04-21-2006, 09:14 AM
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#3 | | Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Greece
Posts: 234
| Can't you just clone partitions and then fill up the remaining 4 GBs with the user storage partition? | |
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04-21-2006, 09:22 AM
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#4 | | LifeInDrive
Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Alabama
Posts: 197
| If you just want 8 gigs of storage, then you could buy a 4 gig SD card. I guess that if you had an 8 gig microdrive then you could also have a 4 gig SD and then have 12! | |
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04-21-2006, 09:23 AM
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#5 | | tired and confused...
Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: London
Posts: 1,921
| Quote: | Originally Posted by skaf Can't you just clone partitions and then fill up the remaining 4 GBs with the user storage partition? |
in principle, yes, in practice i dont think it can be done (people have tried!!) | |
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04-21-2006, 10:39 AM
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#6 | | Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2005
Posts: 80
| Quote: | Originally Posted by SoS in principle, yes, in practice i dont think it can be done (people have tried!!) |
Actually, there was a post floating around on this section of 1src where some Linux gurus had managed to create a set of tools to enable you to do this. Ie fix/update your own Life Drive. Just search around in this forum. You will need a compact-flash to IDE converter, though. You'll have to plug the microdrive into an IDE port so you can use Linux tools on it. That means opening your PC. You can find such converters on eBay. | |
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04-21-2006, 10:46 AM
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#7 | | tired and confused...
Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: London
Posts: 1,921
| Quote: | Originally Posted by jomo Actually, there was a post floating around on this section of 1src where some Linux gurus had managed to create a set of tools to enable you to do this. Ie fix/update your own Life Drive. Just search around in this forum. You will need a compact-flash to IDE converter, though. You'll have to plug the microdrive into an IDE port so you can use Linux tools on it. That means opening your PC. You can find such converters on eBay. |
I think I'll pass!! | |
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04-21-2006, 11:25 AM
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#8 | | Software engineer/hacker
Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Silicon Valley, CA
Posts: 5,061
| problem is also on palmOS side. for measuring available/free space, a UInt32 is used. it's range is 0 to 2^32, so max size it will support is in fact 4GB. For more, you'd need a hack to overwrite this and always report the minimum of real free space and 4GB, same for total space. I DO have such a hack but I am not sure it will work on LD's hdd. IT does work for 8gb sd card though.
__________________ Annoying me is NOT an approved way of encouraging me to produce software My software:PowerSDHC, PowerDrive, nuRom, UDMH, warpSpeed, PowerDiGi, brightnessFix, etc... Get it all here:http://www.PalmPowerups.com | |
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04-21-2006, 01:50 PM
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#9 | | Dont Panic
Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: plymouth nc usa
Posts: 674
| what about using a 4 gig cf card instead of a microdrive.... | |
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04-21-2006, 02:26 PM
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#10 | | Software engineer/hacker
Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Silicon Valley, CA
Posts: 5,061
| that will likely work. def worth a try. i have a cd->ide adapter and 4gb cf. anyone want to donate an Ld for a week?
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04-21-2006, 04:58 PM
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#11 | | Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Portland
Posts: 171
| Don't you need to use a different filesystem for CF? I read that you'd want to use a filesystem that writes to fairly random locations, instead of linearly like an HD so that you use up the write cycles on the CF more or less evenly.
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04-22-2006, 12:34 AM
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#12 | | Software engineer/hacker
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| cf=same nand flash as all other palms have. i see no concern there
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04-22-2006, 07:21 AM
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#13 | | Dont Panic
Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: plymouth nc usa
Posts: 674
| im willing to go in on halves for a lifedrive from ebay.....sisnce i got mine back with a warranty i dont want to damage it....however if we find a better drive that works and get the process down....we could make lifedrive a more stable unit..... as for the ld2 they need to make it with user functionality in mind.....like removable battery...flash instead of microdrive...etc....everyhing else is fine....more user memory.. | |
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