Posted by Java Jive on 11/01/05 02:21

Is it a Panasonic? If yes, I don't know of anyone trying a smaller drive in
one, so I can't give a definitive answer, but my guess is that you're
shafted. If it's another make, then there may be hope, depending on the
make.

There's a remote possibility that a Panasonic's firmware would allow for
smaller drives from earlier models but not ones larger than the current
maximum in use at the time of manufacture, so it *might* cope with a smaller
drive. Do you care about the drive or its current contents? If not, you
could try it. Of, course, there's a risk that it may actually break the
drive, though I rather think it would be more likely to just give errors,
which may only appear as the smaller capacity gets filled up with recordings
and the firmware tries to write to areas of the disk beyond those which
physically exist.

A larger drive would be no problem in a Panasonic, but, unless things have
changed since mine was manufactured, you would only be able to use the
original's capacity of it, the rest would be wasted.

"zenia" <xzenia05@global-mail.com> wrote in message
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> "Java Jive" <java@evij.com> wrote in message
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> >>>>
> > No, it uses a HD version of the same UDF-based format used for DVD-RAM,
a
> > non-PC format, and, unfortunately, unless things have changed with more
> > recent models, the HD size is hard-encoded into the machine, so any
> > replacement HD will be formatted to exactly the same capacity as the
> > original.
> > <<<
> Hi , I'm dense, so i'll go ahead and ask: this applies to smaller capacity
> drives? It HAS to be the exact same size...i wanna make sure. I have an
> extra drive i wanted to install in another set-top that has no drive--the
> old one is damaged.
> thanks

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