gerard143 Posted June 6, 2006 Report Share Posted June 6, 2006 ya this is bullshit. all i wanna do is load my mp3s onto the harddrive. there has got to be some way. what a stupid ass way to go about loading the harddrive pioneer chose. copys the music at 4x speed. F that. should just have a simple usb interface and just transfer them that way with a laptop or better yet wirelessly. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
docluv01 Posted June 6, 2006 Report Share Posted June 6, 2006 Im sure everyone on this board concurs... Also, have u noticed that the soudn quality of the "recorded" songs sound liek crap. the manual claims its 128k, but stil sounds like sh**. you lose all crispness. if i play a audio cd, or even an mp3 cd for that matter, sounds a LOT better. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
edrock200 Posted June 6, 2006 Report Share Posted June 6, 2006 [quote name="docluv01"]Im sure everyone on this board concurs... Also, have u noticed that the soudn quality of the "recorded" songs sound liek crap. the manual claims its 128k, but stil sounds like sh**. you lose all crispness. if i play a audio cd, or even an mp3 cd for that matter, sounds a LOT better.[/quote] I haven't used it much so I can't comment on sound clarity but there are two very lacking features that surprised me: 1. The inability to copy MP3s to the hard drive off of data CD's and DVD's 2. The inability to play MP3's of DVD-R/+R's (I use the Roxio workaround) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
gerard143 Posted June 6, 2006 Report Share Posted June 6, 2006 with roxio you gotta rip them in wav format essentially though right? like an audio dvd? lemme ask this... if you throw in an audio dvd, does it still utlilize the same way to search thru songs with folders and all the same as it would with songs on the actual hdd. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
edrock200 Posted June 7, 2006 Report Share Posted June 7, 2006 [quote name="gerard143"]with roxio you gotta rip them in wav format essentially though right? like an audio dvd? lemme ask this... if you throw in an audio dvd, does it still utlilize the same way to search thru songs with folders and all the same as it would with songs on the actual hdd.[/quote] Not quit it converts it to a dvd-video disc. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
palacios Posted June 7, 2006 Report Share Posted June 7, 2006 I tried to go the Roxio audio-DVD route and I found the menus very annoying. The album art looked like crap and the text was very tiny and hard to read. Is there a way to change the text size and menu quality? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
edrock200 Posted June 7, 2006 Report Share Posted June 7, 2006 [quote name="palacios"]I tried to go the Roxio audio-DVD route and I found the menus very annoying. The album art looked like crap and the text was very tiny and hard to read. Is there a way to change the text size and menu quality?[/quote] I believe you can change the font. I can't remember which theme I used but I found the font to be very legible. Try some of the other themes. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
emerald_phoenix Posted July 2, 2006 Report Share Posted July 2, 2006 Hey guys, back to the original issue. I know people have tried cloning the hard drive using software, but has anyone tried cloning using hardware? I work in IT and we happen to have a hard drive duplicator for use when we want to make a quick dupe of a hard drive. Something like this: [url=http://www.digital-loggers.com/128u.html]http://www.digital-loggers.com/128u.html[/url] Would this not just dupe the entire thing? Hard drive lock and all? I'm looking to make a couple backup's of the z1 drive so that I don't have to go through hell if the hard drive craps out on me. Just swap... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Pulp_Fiction Posted July 3, 2006 Report Share Posted July 3, 2006 [quote name="emerald_phoenix"]Hey guys, back to the original issue. I know people have tried cloning the hard drive using software, but has anyone tried cloning using hardware? I work in IT and we happen to have a hard drive duplicator for use when we want to make a quick dupe of a hard drive. Something like this: [url=http://www.digital-loggers.com/128u.html]http://www.digital-loggers.com/128u.html[/url] Would this not just dupe the entire thing? Hard drive lock and all? I'm looking to make a couple backup's of the z1 drive so that I don't have to go through hell if the hard drive craps out on me. Just swap...[/quote] It shouldn't work but please give it a try if you have one. The ATA lock is supposed to intercept and stop all data access to the drive platters regardless of hardware or software used. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest z1fan Posted July 15, 2006 Report Share Posted July 15, 2006 has anybody tried inserting a blank and newly formatted hdd? The slash memory may be able to write new partitions Quote Link to post Share on other sites
SemoTech Posted July 17, 2006 Report Share Posted July 17, 2006 [quote name="z1fan"]has anybody tried inserting a blank and newly formatted hdd? The slash memory may be able to write new partitions[/quote] Doubtfull if this will work. I bet the Z1 looks for specific data/partitions to be present on the HD before it asumes it is a valid drive. Also, "formatting" is not a good idea as we do not know exactly what the format is. If anyone wants to do a test they can low-level format (zero out) a drive and try it but again, I seriousely doubt this will work. We need to unlock the drive, copy the data/partitions to an image file (Ghost, Aronis,etc) and then dump the data onto a larger HD. If the partitions, filesystem and OS are windows compatible it should also be possible to strech the 10GB partition to about 80-90GB on a 100-120GB drive while still leaving the 20GB for the map data intact. Inserting an unlocked drive (that allows locking) but was properly formatted and partitioned with the original map data MIGHT just work... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Pulp_Fiction Posted July 18, 2006 Report Share Posted July 18, 2006 [quote name="SemoTech"] [quote name="z1fan"]has anybody tried inserting a blank and newly formatted hdd? The slash memory may be able to write new partitions[/quote] Doubtfull if this will work. I bet the Z1 looks for specific data/partitions to be present on the HD before it asumes it is a valid drive. Also, "formatting" is not a good idea as we do not know exactly what the format is. If anyone wants to do a test they can low-level format (zero out) a drive and try it but again, I seriousely doubt this will work. We need to unlock the drive, copy the data/partitions to an image file (Ghost, Aronis,etc) and then dump the data onto a larger HD. If the partitions, filesystem and OS are windows compatible it should also be possible to strech the 10GB partition to about 80-90GB on a 100-120GB drive while still leaving the 20GB for the map data intact. Inserting an unlocked drive (that allows locking) but was properly formatted and partitioned with the original map data MIGHT just work...[/quote] Semo, All of this has already been done. The problem we are experiencing is my Z1 so far has been the only one to accept the larger drive for more than 15 min. Read the sticky on at the top of the this section on HDD for more info. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
SemoTech Posted July 18, 2006 Report Share Posted July 18, 2006 My bad, reading in order of activity and did not get the FAQ you made till after replying to this. Questions: 1. Have you tried to enlarge the MSV FAT32 Partition beyond the 32GB limit? Did it work? 2. Is it possible that the reason Ducatiboy's HD is crashing is due to the way locking and unlocking is handled? I've seen a lot of drives that do not support locking features causing some grief. While I see that you recomend disabling the security features, maybe it is worth a shot not to and let the Z1 happily lock and unlock the drive... 3. How large is the compressed image (Ghost or Acronis) of the original drive you made? Thanks. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BigFloppy Posted July 18, 2006 Report Share Posted July 18, 2006 I've run into the same problems as Ducati... Runs for 5 or more minutes, then the system stops responding to any of the buttons (or even the screen for that matter) Formatting > 32gb is possible, I have a 70GB partition on a 100gb laptop drive I purchased Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cosmic Gecko Posted July 19, 2006 Report Share Posted July 19, 2006 I'm thinking the problem is more along the lines of the cluster size and root-directory size used when restoring the partition images. Pulp_Fiction may have gotten lucky with a conservative FAT32 formatting scheme; while the others (unknowingly) had their partitioning software use larger clusters to accomodate the larger partition sizes requested. I should have the rest of my gear ready in another week or two, and hopefully I'll be able to reproduce Pulp_Fiction's results soon. If things go as well as I hope, I'll have my unit's ATA Passwords sniffed out so I can just focus on programming new apps for these things. :-) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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