Posted by Les on 08/30/07 22:47

On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 09:22:20 +0100, Les <LESnospam@%%mon.co.uk> wrote:

>On Sun, 26 Aug 2007 17:53:31 -0400, "Captain Midnight"
><Notany@twip.invalid> wrote:
>
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>>"Les" <LESnospam@%%mon.co.uk> wrote in message
>>news:cc23d3lclc7ne2gigc0svj6ntppgq4fn6f@4ax.com...
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>>> PS: I wonder if this is the same for the HDD models with say an 80gb,
>>> could you just swapout to a bigger drive?
>>
>>Possibly. Might require Linux to format it. I'd check to try and see about
>>what format it might need and if the unit expects to see anything on the
>>drive before buying one. Might be possible to put a bigger drive in too.
>>With the way drive size is expanding it may be hard to find a new 80GB IDE
>>drive in a couple of years. Never tried to do a format with Knopix but
>>wouldn't be surprised it could do it. It's free.
>
>I think the HDD recorder will have to wait now I've fixed the LiteOn.
>I now have a new next to useless Panasonic EZ27 which is very fussy
>about what it copies, but has a great Freeview recording system that
>is much easier than VideoPlus, and the LiteOn is rapidly copying my
>entire VHS collection as we speak. AS an aside on the old LiteOn drive
>my Firewire input would lock up after an hour or two and the DVD
>copying was coasted (Im running out of a JVC DVS1 which had firewire
>output for VHS/MiniDV)! So far with this new drive via firewire I have
>had no lockouts, not sure why but very handy :-)

Cancel that. Locks outs still occurring but I think it might be the
JVC at fault, which locks the picture as if on pause, then the liteon
freaks out and goes into stop mode but never actually stops stopping,
requires a power off!


>>Good job on the optical drive.
>
>Cheers. I'm so chuffed as I hate throwing things out LOL
>
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