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Old 12th June 2007, 11:42 PM   #12
mpdonahue
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Hey Tim,
Couple of comments.
WRT installing a large internal SATA drives, there is a problem. You can't access the drive as a record drive from front panel. You need to go into Windows XP to manually select it as a record drive.
The next problem is that all record drives need to be FAT-32 volumes or the files are un-readable by other devices. The rub is that Windows XP(Which is what this box runs under the hood) will not format a FAT-32 volume larger than 36GB. This means that you need to format the drives ahead of time and install them in the second internal slot. We finally got it working after a long trial and error period, but you still need to use the keyboard and mouse if you want to use the extra internal drive.
To format the second internal drive FAT-32 you can use any Macintosh, or on PC you can use Acronis Disk Director Suite. Once we figured this out, using the extra internal SATA works without any real problems, even more reliably than the external Firewire in our experience.
All the best,
Mark
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