Could a larger hard disk bring problems?

I'm looking to upgrade the 64mb CF hard drive of my CEPC. Could larger sizes potentially bring issues..? I was thinking of perhaps a one gb CF card. Is there anything to suggest it could end up not working?

I don’t know much about that. But I would make sure you exactly copy the partition format / file system type / cluster sizes in a cloning method to duplicate it.

In the other thread here
https://www.hpcfactor.com/forums/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=20770&po...

Rich mentioned

So based on that, let’s just make something up as an example and say there are two partitions:
Partition 1 is 12.23454MB and is the recovery partition or ram disk or whatever
Partition 2 is 52.55544Mb and is the data partition for the remainder of the CF hard drive

I would clone the smaller partition to be the same exact size as the original one but make your data partition the larger size.

Thus:
Partition 1: 12.23454MB
Partition 2: 1012.22MB

Again I don’t have any firsthand experience with this. Just my thoughts.

1GB, no, no file system compatibility issues. CE5 should be fine up to 32GB.

Thank you! I ordered a 4gb one which should be fine

Once you get it. Please submit your CF card to the HCL if it isn't already in there.

Well the card I got arrived defective, so I'll have to get another one I guess Perhaps just a CF-SD adapter

Is the slot type I or type II?

It's type 1 I believe. It works fine with the original CF card which has the same dimensions as the new one

In that case I highly recommend this one


I realize it’s a little more but it works fantastic in my MobilePro 790 and my 900.

Ah damn, I just already ordered a new off the shelf 4gb CF card.. if that one ends up making problems I'll definitely try the adapter you sent!

I managed to copy the old CF's data to the new one but the CEPC isn't booting at all. It's probably either because the card is corrupt or because it's expecting a specific type of formatting

Did you copy or clone? Best to clone

Please see my post number two. You need to chekc the partition data. Sometimes there’s two partitions on those cepcs. One for data and one for the ram boot.

I tried to clone at first, but it caused everything to freeze up and it gave me a disk i/o error. It took me a whole while to format it properly again. I also got a bunch of delayed write errors and so on

The original 64mb CF is just a simple 64mb partition with its nk.bin on it, I don't think that's it