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Is a music keg and a phatbox the same thing? Whats the diff?
It's the same principle hardware underneath, and the DMS storage is the same regardless.
All that's different is the look of the boxes.
Can i hack my Music keg?
Yes you can
You can run the scripts in the hack thread, or if you are able to exercise patience you could wait for the new replacement wizard to be available, which should be ver the next few weeks.
Can i upgrade my music kegs' hard drive?
Essentially you just asked the same question twice
If i formated the drive does this destroy the chance of using it as a keg anymore?
No. We have a number of utils that can rebuild a drive dfor you. However, in order to apply the hack you must have an ORIGINAL PHATNOISE disk in the DMS cartridge.
Once the box is hacked you can use any [supported] disk you like in the box.
My computer shows drive partitions (n)+ 2gig and (m)9gig.. which one is the phtsys partition? do i need to name it that? how?
I'm assuming from this, you have the 710?
The PhtSYS drive will be the smaller partition, and will have the volume label PhtSYS when you look at through windows explorer.
This might be a bit weird to ask. cuz i've seen a thread on it but i didn't really understand the computer talk used so. And take into mind i'm starting with a black 10 gig drive with no names on the partions.
When i look in my computer at my keg i get two drive partition N and M. What should they come up as and what sub folders i have in them?
Hmm the penny is starting to drop.If you have the PhatNoise Media Manager software, try running the Disk Doctor utility, it should patch things up for you.
We also have a number of other tools available, keep hunting round the forums or take a look at the WIKI.
Can i just drop my music files in there folders into the keg? (rather then use phat noises software) If so do i put them in a folder or just on the drive?
No, the phatbox makes use of it's own playlist format, and databases [although we're still working out what the minimum is needed to make it work]. In a windows environment most of us are/have used PhatNoise Media Manager to transfer the files onto the device [as it's the easiest way of doing so].
If you are using a MAC, you could use PhatHac.
I'm working on a community based replacement for Windows.
Thats about it. yeah!!! lol
Hopefully someone will be bored enough to respond to all of these. I did look for a while but i couldn't really differ the keg from the phatbox. So yeah!!!
There's only so many nappies a bloke can change on a Saturday so I hope my answers have been useful. Apparently I'm beginning to sound like I know what I'm talking about.
Others will correct me shortly I'm sure
BTW... I'm thinking something like this post would make a good FAQ.
