HDD space for Music
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HDD space for Music
Has anyone successfully swapped the iDrive HDD for a bigger one, to partition a larger space for music.. 12GB just isn't cutting it.
iPOD menu is ugly, and takes extra steps to choose a song
Flash drive takes too long to load compared to idrive HDD
Just wondering if anyone has pulled it off. Seems like it'd be possible, but a very expensive mistake if you mess something up.
iPOD menu is ugly, and takes extra steps to choose a song
Flash drive takes too long to load compared to idrive HDD
Just wondering if anyone has pulled it off. Seems like it'd be possible, but a very expensive mistake if you mess something up.
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There is about 24Gb free space available on navigation partition. You can repartition it or link /mnt/hbmedia/entertainmentserver there (not tested). If 24Gb of additional space does not cut it for you, your only option is buying a bigger PATA drive.
Code:
/dev/hd0t77.5 168632 11664 156968 7% /mnt/hbdebug/ /dev/hd0t77.4 13317836 673429 12644407 6% /mnt/hbmedia/ /dev/hd0t77.3 1148600 49881 1098719 5% /mnt/hbuser/ /dev/hd0t77.2 1710872 993777 717095 59% /mnt/hbdata/ /dev/hd0t77.1 3076400 1080783 1995617 36% /mnt/hbcddb/ /dev/hd0t77 58725528 34478181 24247347 59% /mnt/hbnavi/
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dbond - Does the iDrive include a PATA controller? If so, do you know its upper limits - i.e. could it handle a 1 TB IDE PATA drive?
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I've looked into this before. At the time the biggest laptop sized PATA drive I saw was 80GB. I doubt they make a 1TB IDE PATA drive. Everything is SATA nowadays.
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iDrive is based on 80Gb PATA HDD. Extracting one from the unit is fairly simple. There is a service window in front of the headunit. I'm not sure what the upper limit but I remember people installed 320Gb PATA drives no problem.
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I can report back that a trick with moving media to navigation partition seems to work OK. Considering that I barely used 20% of the original 12Gb HDD space the newly found ~24Gb of free space is a big relief. 
Code:
drwxrwxr-x 5 root 0 1024 Jan 01 00:02 . drwxrwxr-x 5 root 0 1024 Jan 01 00:02 .. drwx------ 2 root 0 1024 Jun 10 2009 .boot lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 0 31 Jan 01 00:02 entertainmentserver -> /mnt/hbnavi/entertainmentserver drwxrwxrwx 2 root 0 1024 Jun 07 2013 pv_cover_cache
Last edited by dbond; Jul 27, 2013 at 07:14 PM.
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