OESF Portables Forum

Everything Else => Sharp Zaurus => Model Specific Forums => Distros, Development, and Model Specific Forums => Archived Forums => C1000/3x00 Hardware => Topic started by: freizugheit on November 18, 2005, 04:06:27 am

Title: Seagate 8gb Cfii Hard Disk
Post by: freizugheit on November 18, 2005, 04:06:27 am

Has anyone tried on the Zaurus?

Where is the best bargain?

Thank you in advance.

Title: Seagate 8gb Cfii Hard Disk
Post by: Da_Blitz on November 18, 2005, 08:42:41 pm

have heard of these but never seen them in the wild, procedure should be the same as every other "i want to replace the microdrive in the zaurus" post, ie just format and partion then do a hard drive restore from CF using the diagnostic menu

Title: Seagate 8gb Cfii Hard Disk
Post by: freizugheit on January 22, 2006, 10:00:54 pm

Any feedback will be appreciated.

Title: Seagate 8gb Cfii Hard Disk
Post by: deluxe on January 25, 2006, 07:03:49 pm

I got a Seagate yesterday from Amazon. Great deal with rebate, Credit Card application discount, and Free downloads from Real......think the final cost was $126 shipped, plus the free music.
Anyway, I plugged it in, listened to it whir into action, downloaded about 5Gb of Movies and Podcasts and assorted files to it. It works perfectly, plays video smoothly with no issues, seems to spin up really fast, in fact I notice no real speed difference accessing files compared with a 512Mb Sandisk CF.
You do need to add something to enable pulling it out of the slot (tape) if you switch the card  for, say, a WiFi CF card, but isn't that true for all Microdrives?
I am a happy camper.

Title: Seagate 8gb Cfii Hard Disk
Post by: lareya on January 25, 2006, 08:02:30 pm

I also just received mine today.  I just put it in, and Voila     It seems to work great!

Lareya

Title: Seagate 8gb Cfii Hard Disk
Post by: daniel3000 on January 26, 2006, 05:11:58 am

Quote

I also just received mine today.  I just put it in, and Voila     It seems to work great!

Lareya
[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=112431\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

What about replacing the internal 4GB drive of SL-C3x00 with that one? Has anyone tried that?

daniel

Title: Seagate 8gb Cfii Hard Disk
Post by: deluxe on January 28, 2006, 08:00:14 pm

Well, I found a starnge anomaly with the 8gb seagate: When I plug in the sl-c1000 to the PC with the USB cord, I can see the seagate, see the folders on it, but not upen the folders to see any files.
Anyone got any clues? The palmtop worked fine this way with CF solid state cards.

Title: Seagate 8gb Cfii Hard Disk
Post by: Omicron on February 04, 2006, 09:20:08 pm

Quote

Well, I found a starnge anomaly with the 8gb seagate: When I plug in the sl-c1000 to the PC with the USB cord, I can see the seagate, see the folders on it, but not upen the folders to see any files.
Anyone got any clues? The palmtop worked fine this way with CF solid state cards.
[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=112798\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

Try formatting it using the Z (liketo NTFS)

Title: Seagate 8gb Cfii Hard Disk
Post by: deluxe on February 05, 2006, 12:05:37 pm

Since it was working fine on the sl-c1000, but not on the PC, I reformatted on the PC. All is fine again now.
I only get a volume of 7.43GB on the supposed 8GB volume though. I expect to "lose" some, but that seems like too much, no?? Even with "view all files" enabled on the PC, the drive is empty, just only 7.43GB. IE: there are no lurking hidden files.

Title: Seagate 8gb Cfii Hard Disk
Post by: freizugheit on February 05, 2006, 10:10:55 pm

Thanks for sharing your experiences.  I will purchase it sonnest.

Title: Seagate 8gb Cfii Hard Disk
Post by: mtfbwy on February 09, 2006, 10:38:02 am

Quote

Since it was working fine on the sl-c1000, but not on the PC, I reformatted on the PC. All is fine again now.
I only get a volume of 7.43GB on the supposed 8GB volume though. I expect to "lose" some, but that seems like too much, no?? Even with "view all files" enabled on the PC, the drive is empty, just only 7.43GB. IE: there are no lurking hidden files.
[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=113742\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

This is because drive makers are sneaky. They consider 8 gb to be 8,000,000,000 bytes but your ccomputer considers a gb to be 1024 * 1024 * 1024 bytes and not an equal 1 million.

Therefore your 8 gb "advertised size" is really only 7.45 gb in size.

Title: Seagate 8gb Cfii Hard Disk
Post by: xjqian on February 13, 2006, 05:54:52 am

I compared the latest microdrive (decent priced): Seagate 8G and Hitachi 6G in This Post (https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=4741&st=0&p=114627&#entry114627). If the specs are true, the only advantage of Seagate is 2G more capacity and 2M cache.

I will probably get the Hitachi 6G in next month. It's interesting to see if the performance of the Hitachi outshadows the Seagate in real life.

Title: Seagate 8gb Cfii Hard Disk
Post by: jpmatrix on February 13, 2006, 08:48:40 am

hi guys

what about the Seagate Pocket 5Go usb harddrive ? do you think the Z could give him enough power via the usb to work ?

http://www.seagate.com/products/retail/pocket/index.html (http://www.seagate.com/products/retail/pocket/index.html)