Simple: biggest HDD for CF-29?

It's a simple question, that has many answers on this forum. some are old, some are not. I'm not sure which is correct or current.

What is the single largest supported IDE HDD capacity for the CF-29?

 

The current answer is:

320gb

 

I'm surprised no one has tried a 500gb or 1tb.

Either way, thank you!

 

AFAIK, no one ever made an IDE HDD in those sizes. IDE is nearly obsolete.

 

Since you can hot swap you could put a sata hard drive adapter in the cd/dvd drive.

 

On a side note:
Once upon a time, I had a Fujitsu Point 1600.
It was possible, with a diy adapter cable, to run 2 hdd's (master/slave) off the one caddy. it did require you to go in and unshort 1 pin on 1 chip on the mobo (I don't recall the exact details). I got all warm and fuzzy at the thought of being able to jam an ssd/cf card for my OS, and 250gb ide drive for mass storage in my CF29......

--==Interestingfellow: enjoying champagne taste on a beer budget, since 1980==--

 

They make a Compact flash to IDE adapter that can hold up to to 3 compact flashes. That does sound like a cool idea on that life book.

 

another simple question:

what is the largest capacity SATA drive w/adapter known to work in a CF29?

 

I have tried that myself. you will have to re-engineer the padding to get it to fit. I also had it to bump loose a few times. I wound up swapping back to my original 40GB HD. There is suppose to be some half length SSD drives coming out that would fit better in the caddy.

 

Corsair F120 SSD and Toshiba 250gb HDD confirmed. I have to disassemble me other laptop completely in order to access the 500gb drive in it. So I never tried that one.

 

So far I have gotten 640GB Sata on a CF-29, but you have to modify the caddy to make the adapter fit.

Happy holidays all..

 

Cool!
My curiosity is satiated..... The physical fit is not an issue for me: I can mod the caddy, np.
But making the bios play nice......little more difficult.
I wanted to know what I was getting into before i got into it.

 

I have seen people cheat on some older computers by partitioning the hard drive down to a size the BIOS can see. That way you will still have the space you wanted, but it shows it as more than one drive.

 

yeah, i've messed around with init13 restrictions before.
more of a pita than it's worth. I like to just throw in a play nice drive, and then throw in the bigg'ns and let windows handle those....

I fix the inlaws computers and phones and get to keep the broke ones/leftovers.
I have a gateway laptop with a 250wveb sittin here with a dead graphics card... sata adapter here I come....

 

Just be careful with the IDE SATA adapter, I think I have tried almost every bloody adapter ever made in China and for whatever reason about 80-90% do not work reliably in CF-29 especially when you put any kind of heavy load on the drives.

Even my old suppliers started changing some components on the board, looks exactly the same but now does not work... very frustrating... I finally have one that so far (fingers crossed) is excellent. If you want I will send you one for free and consider my good Karma gift to start the year off on a positive note. Just ping me your address in next 2 days, since will be going on holidays soon.

later

 

you da man! I'm emailing you right now...

 

Me adapter is perfectly fine. I put it on a 24 hour constant R/W and it didn't fail. And yes, I know it was utterly stupid doing that to a SSD drive.