POSSIBLE HD DRIVE SWAP!!!!

[todd1010]

Someone on another forum gave me these links because I said that switching hard drives in the Phatbox DMS has not really been done. So he sent me this. I'm no programmer or hardware engineer so reading this is foreign. I'm putting it here so you guys can decifer what it means and if we can use any of it.

http://jcs.org/code/phatsync.pl

http://unix.phatnoise.com/bootdisk.php



Also, look thru this site there is a signing utility and possibly a few othe things that might be of interest.


http://jcs.org/code/

[judb]

That just allows you to sync your music collection to the DMS under OpenBSD and the bootdisk allows you to reparition and reformat your DMS if something bad happens to the data, but it does not repair the signed drive area.

Thanks for the info but that guy was not able to find anything we didnt already know.

[todd1010]

What about his "playlist" signing utility? Is that anything we you guys can use?

[judb]

Sure, people using OpenBSD or Linux could use a shell script like that maybe.  Phatnoise made plsign available to everyone to use the DMS on linux but his script makes some stuff quicker I'd bet.

[para]

Yep, nothing new unfortunately. I'm currently coding a GUI-based linux tool which does nearly the same as PMM but with more flexibility...

Para

[shack]

Para-

Cool - if you plan on sharing your GUI-based linux version of PMM and ever need testers, I'll volunteer.  

[para]

Sure, just keep an eye on this

Para

[ogrechoby]

In an email conversation I had with the author of that script awhile ago....

> I was also wondering if I could put a different harddrive in the
> DMS and partition it out.  I saw somewhere that the PHTSYS
> partition was 256MB so this is what I've made mine at this point.

it won't work; there is something specific about the hard drives
used in the dms cartridges that makes it impossible.  i think it's
the serial numbers on the hard drives, but i'm not sure.  the
phatbox checks this when booting up from it and will refuse to load
if it's not an official drive.  phatnoise does this so you can't
just upgrade your cartridge with a bigger drive.  they want you to
pay twice the price to get an official cartridge from them.



one of the guys that works at phatnoise released a hodgepodge of
scripts to work with a dms cartridge under linux:

http://phatbox.sixpak.org/phatbox/linux.phtml

they are kind of kludgey and not documented very well, so i read how
they all worked together and started writing the phatsync perl
script from scratch to do everything in one program.

[para]

Thanks, but nothing new