FS100 now 160gig, upgrade at home.

[MDKfilms]

Hey everybody,
I lost the thread that talked about this but here is my news. Mostly for Firestore users. I decided to upgrade the drive in mine and it was quick and painless, except for waiting for the new drive to show up. I purchased an
Western Digital Scorpio WD1600BEVE Hard Drive, 2.5 inch


Western Digital Corporation: MFR Part # WD1600BEVE


160GB
5400rpm
Ultra ATA/100 (ATA-6)
IDE/EIDE
Internal
8m cache
12ms seek timeThat is all. $91.84 from FRONTIERPC.COM. Quite simple, take apart your FS100 plug in the new drive and it will ask you if you want to partition, select yes. The FS100 has 2 partitions a 100gig and a 60gig. Thats it thats all, happy shooting. And if anyone wants to get the 250gig version of this same drive I'm sure it would work also.:thumbsup:

[Kwan]

humm... great news, but i'm still thinking to sell/trade (for 32g p2) mine.

[Berk]

Hi Douglas

one question
did you format the hardrive as Fat32 in advance or the FS-100 did it for you after you installed it.

thanks for sharing

Berk

[Sanchez]

Kwan,

I'd consider buying yours if you decide to sell ...

-Jay

[Kwan]

Hey Sanchaz,
FIRESTORE FS100 VER 4.0
REGULAR AND Extended BATTERY (180min - $190)
6 to 4-pin Right Angle FireWire Cable
AC Adapter
cradle (only)

I can sell it for $1600. PM me if interested.

[manglerBMX]

i did this a while back with an fs4proHD and i had to make an image of the operating system on the drive. do you not need to do this with the fs100?

[MDKfilms]

Hey Manglerbmx, I think it was your thread that I saw before. Anyway, no you don't have to create a disk image to do this. The FS100 asked me if I wanted to partition the new drive as soon as I booted up. I believe I read somewhere on here that because of the FAT32 file system the drive is limited to 100gigs. When I connect to my computer I have two drives show up on my desk top. It really was as simple as I previously stated. So if anyone needs more record times just go ahead and swap out the drive, just make sure it is an EIDE drive and not a SATA.

On another note, I had a 32gig P2 card that I swapped for this FS100, Had to because I needed the longer record times and it seems most of my clients want to use this thing.

Here is the other thread that I looked at before I did my upgrade. http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?t=124596

[MDKfilms]

Just to add, when removing the old drive you will find on the back a small thin piece of magnetized metal. You have to pull this off and put it on the new drive in the same position as it was located on the old drive otherwise the fan will not work and the unit will over heat.

[chakamonkey]

Coppola questions:

1. Did you verify that it records onto the 2nd 60GB partition? Just want to make sure that it's not just dumbing-down a larger drive. Does it Organize P2 on both partitions? Can it span a single clip over both partitions?
2. Do you know if that Tekkeon MP3450 fits the FS100?
3. I don't know that FAT32 is limited to 100GB. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table#FAT32
At least the limit is 4GB for a single file on FAT32, which FS100 already deals with by splitting them up. It's possible that the version of embedded linux that the FS100 uses could have some limit, but I would ask owners of the retail FS100 versions that have 160GB drives if they are partitioned as 100GB and 60GB. Anyone here have the larger sized FS100 that can tell us?

OK. that was more than just Francis and Sophia.

Thanks.

[MDKfilms]

Chakamonkey,
Yep, verified that it starts recording on the other partition already. It starts recording on disk 1 and then it smoothly switches disks and keeps going. As far as spanning clips across disks I honestly don't know. In regards to the other question I am pretty sure the off the shelf FS160 is partitioned the same way, don't know why for sure. If there is a hack for the OS to eliminate the need show me the way. As far as the Tekkon things goes I don't know.

[James H.]

Yes, The MP3450 will power the FS100... I use the MP3450 to power just about everything I have, including my FS.