02-10-2006, 03:04 AM
I upgraded both my 5040 and my 5504's hard drives recently. Both machines' original drives had failed, so I really had no choice but to do the upgrade. I put a 320GB Seagate drive in one and a 300GB WD drive in the other.
I put the new drives in a FW case to format them via my iBook G3 800 first, then installed them into the Replay cases. The actual physical installation of the drives was simple - only PITA is all of the little screws to take out to get the case open.
There are a couple of things to download and use via terminal commands (RTV patch and Replay OS). I had help (thanks Hwystar!!!) doing the formatting - we had to use a combination of a few different instruction webpages (Davester's posts to one site were very helpful). I can't remember if the linked pages from Davester up there were ones we used or not.
Anyway, the formatting just isn't as bad as it looks like, if terminal stuff scares you... If I was able to do it (admittedly with extensive coaching and step-by-step hand-holding), I'll bet you can do it too.
Most awesome part of it is having 300 + 320 HOURS of free space on my machines! I can record anything and everything and not worry about using up all my free space. Gotta love that.
I put the new drives in a FW case to format them via my iBook G3 800 first, then installed them into the Replay cases. The actual physical installation of the drives was simple - only PITA is all of the little screws to take out to get the case open.
There are a couple of things to download and use via terminal commands (RTV patch and Replay OS). I had help (thanks Hwystar!!!) doing the formatting - we had to use a combination of a few different instruction webpages (Davester's posts to one site were very helpful). I can't remember if the linked pages from Davester up there were ones we used or not.
Anyway, the formatting just isn't as bad as it looks like, if terminal stuff scares you... If I was able to do it (admittedly with extensive coaching and step-by-step hand-holding), I'll bet you can do it too.
Most awesome part of it is having 300 + 320 HOURS of free space on my machines! I can record anything and everything and not worry about using up all my free space. Gotta love that.