You do not need to order the drives from Ricoh. I have used two 250GB drives off the shelf plenty of times.
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 ?
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.
I've proved mathematics wrong. 1 + 1 doesn't always equal 2.........
Especially when it comes to sex
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.
Regards Mark
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