MP C6501 HDD Replacement

[anothertech]

You do not need to order the drives from Ricoh. I have used two 250GB drives off the shelf plenty of times.

[Like1mS]

You do not need to order the drives from Ricoh. I have used two 250GB drives off the shelf plenty of times.

Have you done this specifically with this machine ? I know that other machine HDD's can be replaced with any other of the shelf. But i tried two 160GB HDD's and it didnt want to format.
If you certain about this im willing to get 2 used identical HDD's to try. Did you preformat them to FAT32 ?

[anothertech]

Have you done this specifically with this machine ? I know that other machine HDD's can be replaced with any other of the shelf. But i tried two 160GB HDD's and it didnt want to format.
If you certain about this im willing to get 2 used identical HDD's to try. Did you preformat them to FAT32 ?

Yes I have done it on MP C6501, I did not preformat, I just put them in and used the format function in the machines service mode. Did you go into service mode to format them?

[Like1mS]

Yes I have done it on MP C6501, I did not preformat, I just put them in and used the format function in the machines service mode. Did you go into service mode to format them?

Yes i did. And exectute failed. I checked the hard drives one has FAT32 other one only exFAT, i will try with other HDD's if you say it works it should. And let u know. Thanks.

[tonerhead]

Here is the poop as I understand it. The 2 hdd's are in a striping array. Striping increases the r/w speed of data transfer, plus increases the total storage. The 2 hdd's need to be the same size, preferably new unpartitioned. Find 2 identical hdd's, if they are used, do a low level format on each. Stick them into copier and have copier format the hdd's. In theory you should be g2g.

[sandmanmac]

You do not need to order the drives from Ricoh. I have used two 250GB drives off the shelf plenty of times.

Agreed!
They simply need to be 2 identical units (brand/size/ speed).
You cannot mix and match

[Phil B.]

Agreed!
They simply need to be 2 identical units (brand/size/ speed).
You cannot mix and match

and they shouldn't be pre-formatted .. clean IDENTICAL Drives.

[slimslob]

If you try all the recommendations for using 2 identical 160GB drives and it works, fine. If it goes not work it could be that instead of treating them as 2 striped 8 bit drives, Ricoh treats them as one single 16 bit drive. In order to do so there is a code sequence placed on absolute sector 0 that identifies whether the drive is the upper 8 bits or the lower.

[mga]

and they shouldn't be pre-formatted .. clean IDENTICAL Drives.

Agreed also once in machine will need format in service mode also stamp from rom