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I plan to buy a new MK6034GAX, create the partitions, and install the z3 image. Since it is a brand new drive, I would suspect no unlocking is required.

 

Since this would be a brand-new hard-drive, is there anything needed to have the avic properly recognize the drive beyond creating the correct partitions? Any other notes for this strategy?

 

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Must be a Toshiba PATA drive. I personally do not recommend partitioning more than 60gb of any drive. The only partition that benefits from resizing is the music partition. We are still bound by the database limitations of the pioneer software. This limitation is 400 unique artists and 400 unique albums (CDs).

 

The stock 30gb drive gives you a 9gb music partition and will hold about 165 cds.

 

The 40gb drive gives you about a 18gb music partition and will hold about 330 cds.

 

The 60gb drive gives you about a 37gb music partition and will not fill up before you hit the 400/400 limits.

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Is it possible to rip the cd's while the drive is attached to the pc?

Since the drive will be hooked up to disable security, it would save us a lot of time ripping directly from the pc, instead of mounting the drive to the Avic and then rip them one by one.

 

No, because that would assume we know how the ripped CDs are archived/stored, which would also mean you could have just copied them in the first place... :wink:

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