Hd's

[csp]

You can often get low capacity HDs from E-bay, just be sure that they are IDE drives and not SATA drives.

Last week I got a bulk lot of 7 x 40gig IDE drives (for my HD24 recorders) and the lot cost me $Aus20 and as a price comparison I also purchased a 160gig for $Aus25. Both purchases being from E-bay.

David

[synthjoe]

I'm using one of these, rather:
http://cgi.ebay.de/IDE-ATA-to-DUAL-CF-Compact-Flash-Adapter-male-liegend-/350484984410?pt=DE_Elektronik_Computer_Computer_Festplatten&hash=item519a88725a

This plus a pretty regular Kingston CF card (4GB in my case) works fine in my D8B CPU. Pretty cheap - paid about $30 for the whole. I'm using a similar combo as a replacement HDD in one of my old PII laptops - works great!

[Petersueco]

Hey Synthjoe,

How did you manage to install the d8b OS into the CF card?

David Cooper, the user that wrote this article (scroll down to the second part) had to do some "installation engineering" to get it to work.

Peter Holmquist.

[synthjoe]

I don't quite remember, but probably just partitioned and formatted the CF on a normal (DOS 6.22) computer and copied over the files from the original HDD. Most likely used FDISK and FORMAT, then connected both CF and HDD to an XP computer to copy all files. Something like that. Could have been done simplier, I guess. However, it seemed simple enough to me and I don't remember having used the installer.