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In Reply to: RE: cPlay - the open source high-end audio player using ASIO posted by cics on May 05, 2008 at 12:31:58
Because there are problems with functioning of usb ports on tweaking cMP2 why not to use external eSATA HDD?
Serge.
http://cmp2-mihaylov.narod.ru/
My cMP2: Windows XP SP2, Gigabyte GA-H55M-UD2H, Intel Core i3-530, Corsair CM3X160C9DHX 1GB, system drive - Transcend IDE FLASH MODULE TS2GDOM40V-S, ESI Juli@, full linear PSU, NAS - WD My Book Live, iPad
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Why not use external eSATA HDD?
A cMP2 box I built for a friend uses an eSATA HDD with an OS and a data partition. It works just fine. My good idea was that it would be easy to replace the stock HDD PSU with something better, my bad one that I would have to make it. As yet, I haven't - but the eSATA interface is (as you'd expect) no problem.
Another idea at the back of my mind is to try booting and pulling data from a USB HDD connected via one of those ADuM4160 USB isolator chips. Slow speed and all that but not outrageously expensive and plenty fast enough for audio and, with slimmed-down OS installs, sensible boot times.
Hopefully.
Dave
So does this device allow me to go from usb (say from my docking station) to a sata input on my hd? If so that would fix my problems as long as I could cut and paste(which I think I now know how to do)?
does this device allow me to go from usb . . . to a sata input on my hd?
No. I'm not clear why you might want to but you can connect a docking station c/w eSATA interface (most newer devices have one) either to an eSATA interface on the motherboard or (slightly inferior but most unlikely to matter in this context) a SATA> eSATA adapter on the back panel:
On that system I mentioned, I connected an external boot/data drive with its own PSU via one of these adapters. Functionally, it's an internal drive but it's not connected to the mobo PSU and is open to improvement. Some day.
You said '...No. I'm not clear why you might want to ...'
I'm just trying to get new music into my hdd's. So unless I figure out how to reactivate thumb drives and to cut & paste from them I don't have a way unless I swap a a sata hdd to my home computer and then swap it back into cmp. Maybe one of your above mentioned adapters will work. I'm only looking for a way to easily get new music data into cmp.
So I assume my Thermaltake docking station is a type of esata drive. So now that I can copy or cut & paste I could load my hdd's that way. Will try in the am.
Thanks Dave and Serge.
Did not work...oh well back to restoring more files.
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