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06-22-2004, 11:13 PM
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Variable Bitrate
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Newark, Ohio
Posts: 309
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You'll be happier with the additional space.
Batman
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AMD XP 2000, 1gig PC2700, 80gig 7200RPM HD, DVD CD/RW, ATI All in Wonder 8500DV w/remote, DataChute, IRDA, Wireless 802.11b, cell modem, Lilliput 7" VGA TS, XP Pro, GPS w/Routis
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06-23-2004, 04:30 AM
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Maximum Bitrate
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Seattle
Posts: 817
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You bet! The item is arriving tomorrow at noon, so I'm currently partitioning the drive and uploading the MP3s.
All of them! Yay! 
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06-23-2004, 05:27 PM
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Maximum Bitrate
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Seattle
Posts: 817
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Sweet!
Two partitions - one for music, the other one for programs/GPS maps and such!
All-in-all I now have 47 GB!
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06-23-2004, 08:00 PM
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Maximum Bitrate
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Seattle
Posts: 817
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Oh boy, does that feel great or what! Almost feels like sex to see all your MP3s fit on one drive! No more deleting, no more fighting for free space, no more thinking twice before ripping another CD! Best of all - I can now get one of those Routis softwares and load all the maps to my carputer and have GPS on a big screen! Yay! All for just $20 
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06-24-2004, 08:28 AM
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Maximum Bitrate
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Seattle
Posts: 817
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Yeah. It's cool and everything.. but it sucks power like a friggin' plasma TV! I had to disconnect my precious radar and Pocket PC to power up that sucker! Gotta do some power management later today :-/
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06-24-2004, 07:19 PM
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Mac Car Moderator
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Maryland
Posts: 792
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i went out and got the laptop hdd encloser for $20...unfortunately, it uses 2 USB ports...one to power, one for data. but it requires no drivers unless using Win 98 or below :-) formated at FAT32 to be read by whatever.
glad to hear your setup is working well:-)
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06-25-2004, 12:26 AM
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Maximum Bitrate
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Seattle
Posts: 817
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Well, it's not really perfect you know..
There are some problems.
I have to shut down the external HD's power to turn on the laptop, then I have to switch the power back on.
It also added more background noise to my already big collection of interference sounds.
Even the ground loop isolator is not strong enough.
I'm thinking about getting a more powerful inverter. Mine is a 120W, and today I saw a 160W for $40.
If I get that I might get rid of the power problems.
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06-29-2004, 01:33 AM
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Maximum Bitrate
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Seattle
Posts: 817
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Okay people, this is it! I'm going to connect a desktop HD to a laptop by making a custom IDE adapter! Wish me luck!
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06-29-2004, 09:31 PM
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Variable Bitrate
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Newark, Ohio
Posts: 309
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Quote: Originally Posted by Yuriy
Okay people, this is it! I'm going to connect a desktop HD to a laptop by making a custom IDE adapter! Wish me luck!
Go for it Yuriy. Let us know how it turns out.
Batman
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AMD XP 2000, 1gig PC2700, 80gig 7200RPM HD, DVD CD/RW, ATI All in Wonder 8500DV w/remote, DataChute, IRDA, Wireless 802.11b, cell modem, Lilliput 7" VGA TS, XP Pro, GPS w/Routis
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06-29-2004, 10:07 PM
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FLAC
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Massachusetts, US
Posts: 957
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nudge nudge points to first post. I think you can do it pretty easily. Best of luck!
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car computer rev 3: 8" lilliput and usual suspects
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06-29-2004, 10:20 PM
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Maximum Bitrate
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Seattle
Posts: 817
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I did the adapter and I'm sure I got all the connections right (100% sure), however the system freezes before I even have a chance to get into BIOS. Could it be possible that the drive is simply too big to be the main hard drive of this ancient system?
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06-29-2004, 10:50 PM
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FLAC
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Massachusetts, US
Posts: 957
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extremely probable. a 233 pentium system i had was limited to 8.5gb, no idea what your laptop might be limited to.
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car computer rev 3: 8" lilliput and usual suspects
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06-29-2004, 11:16 PM
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Maximum Bitrate
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Seattle
Posts: 817
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Sh1t. Well, screw it, I've wasted several days on all this.
I'll wait for the new motherboard to arrive and then just use a PCMCIA enclosure.
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07-01-2004, 09:49 PM
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Maximum Bitrate
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Seattle
Posts: 817
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Well, it seems like the enclosure might had something to do with frying my PCMCIA slots.
In any way, just to be on the safe side I ordered a PCMCIA USB 2.0 cardbus (with a NEC chipset  ) and an external 3.5" USB HD enclosure (it can actually be converted to a 2.5").
Damn, my system is now getting pretty expensive 
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