Releasing The Petty

Fran check the master / slave IDE settings on old drive and make sure SATA adapter is set to master or slave on the IDE end.

Nuts 'n' Proud

I don't recall the details, but there was a change in how the sectors were addressed that occurred above 137GB. I recall some 160GB drives having a "clip" jumper to dumb them down to 137. But, Fran says it needs 80GB, so maybe it's hard-coded for that size.

I'd be a little surprised if it needed an 80GB drive exactly. I'd be more likely to assume it just expects a drive smaller than 127GB. My thoughts come from the "Original Xbox" which shipped with 8.4GB drives initially but eventually shipped with 10GB and 20GB drives partitioned at 8.4GB because the unit only expected an IDE drive under 32GB in size but had a specific partition mapping consuming 8.4GB. Do you need some 80GB PATA drives to install in here? I have a couple working drives on a shelf both in 3.5" and 2.5" sizes. I'd be happy to ship them out to you.

Michael A Berry

As I commented under the previous Petty video, these stems are already out there. They are not copies of the lost master tapes. I wouldn't worry (or wait) for the Petty estate.

Ben

You can attach it to a PC and clone it to another drive, to keep your own copy of the recordings.

VWestlife

Like trying to format that SATA drive (eFat) for IDE? Done it but you have to parition the SATA drive for what FAT can handle, etc. Pain in the butt. Hope you got it working.

-Jeff-

No - it wants to see an 80gb disc. Got another strategy.

Fran Blanche

I don't want to clone it - Just get the disc formatted to boot up.

Fran Blanche

The optical drive is just for burning stereo WAV audio CD's as mix-down tracks.

Fran Blanche

yea... it had problems.

Fran Blanche

Lets us know how Tom Petty's estate responds to you. It would be nice to know if they come out with another release of his recordings with these included.

Bart de Boisblanc

Looks like you might have to find a 120GB or 160GB IDE drive - refurbished or buy an old PC with the drive still in.

Ian Harris

IDE is a lot easier to interface - it's just an AT bus. That might have made it cheaper to develop than SATA. SATA might be easy from a PC but significantly more effort from an embedded processor.

adrian

Worth doing but would still be safest though to yamk the drive. Maybe Tascam could even find deleted tracks on it.

adrian

Macrium Reflect Free is pretty good at cloning HDD's, used it a few times to copy data to new drives

Anita Davis

Good luck!

That CD drive is writeable. Does the unit have the ability to export tracks from the hard drive to a CD? I can't think of any other reason it would be re-writeable if it doesn't? EDIT: I checked the manual and you can export tracks to the CD (maybe not PC readable though). You can also export tracks as 16bit WAV's via USB.

EEVblog

Was halfway through the prior video when you yanked it! 🤣

-Jeff-