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Title: Make the EIII work without hard drive... Post by: eddyemma on June 12, 2009, 03:18:53 PM As it becomes to be hard to get replacement hard drives for our eIII, did any of you tried to boot the machine without any hard drive inside?
I like to work with floppies, and the EIII would be mutch more quiet ;-) Title: Re: Make the EIII work without hard drive... Post by: dr.c on June 12, 2009, 03:48:51 PM NO WAY ! It makes a blank display and the machine freezes instantly.
When this happens, first thing to look is to put another disk Title: Re: Make the EIII work without hard drive... Post by: eddyemma on June 12, 2009, 03:55:07 PM damned ;-(
means no more hard drive = no more EIII... Title: Re: Make the EIII work without hard drive... Post by: dr.c on June 12, 2009, 11:50:08 PM Exactly. I think there is a way to cheat by putting a SCSI terminator instead of the disk, but I am not sure
Some guys made a modification here, replacing the disk by a memory card ! Title: Re: Make the EIII work without hard drive... Post by: rokuez on June 13, 2009, 01:38:58 PM Exactly. I think there is a way to cheat by putting a SCSI terminator instead of the disk, but I am not sure Some guys made a modification here, replacing the disk by a memory card ! eddyemma put a CF card in your EIII! http://eiiiforum.com/index.php?topic=4.0 here is a thread on that topic. One of my EIII's has two 1 gb CF cards in it. So it is like having two HD's that are 1 gb each. & CF has no moving parts; it is much more silent compared to having a HD in it. Title: Re: Make the EIII work without hard drive... Post by: dr.c on June 13, 2009, 03:14:18 PM This is mad... I love it ! You are a genius ! What about the software ? On the card as well ?
Title: Re: Make the EIII work without hard drive... Post by: rokuez on June 13, 2009, 04:31:33 PM This is mad... I love it ! You are a genius ! What about the software ? On the card as well ? if by software you mean the OS , yes you can install the OS on the CF card & it will run the OS upon startup from the CF card i.e boot from the CF card. the cf card takes 2 hrs to format so it will be sitting there for a good while. Once its formatted you install the OS and install a blank bank (if you can install a blank bank, for some reason i couldn't). funny thing is after i formated and installed the OS I couldn't save a blank bank, don't know why. When I shutdown and rebooted the EIII, everything ran normally, without having the blank saved bank after formatting and OS install ???. Then once it started up I saved a blank bank. When I have more time I'm going to make a post on that thread with my pics etc Title: Re: Make the EIII work without hard drive... Post by: dr.c on June 14, 2009, 02:22:03 AM This would be nice !!!!!
Especially if you have references for the cards, adapters, etc... Title: Re: Make the EIII work without hard drive... Post by: rokuez on June 14, 2009, 03:51:24 AM This would be nice !!!!! Especially if you have references for the cards, adapters, etc... all the info is pretty much there http://eiiiforum.com/index.php?topic=4.0 i'll make a post soon where I outlay all the gear I purchased & all the steps I did to install the cf cards. I'll try to make this post as detailed as possible with images to go along etc. the most difficult part really is just making sure you have the correct jumper settings on the acard, but thanks to Karl Scott this was super easy. Title: Re: Make the EIII work without hard drive... Post by: rokuez on June 14, 2009, 05:09:06 PM phew made the post its on page 5 of that thread.
Title: Re: Make the EIII work without hard drive... Post by: dr.c on June 15, 2009, 12:23:48 PM Page 5 ? ??? ;)
Title: Re: Make the EIII work without hard drive... Post by: rokuez on June 15, 2009, 01:24:59 PM http://eiiiforum.com/index.php?topic=4.0 Title: Re: Make the EIII work without hard drive... Post by: dr.c on June 15, 2009, 01:38:54 PM Sorry, I found it in between...
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