Compact Flash Upgrade
jjames
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Has anyone installed an upgraded compact flash card on an MVP-8400? If so, did you use the AMX one or did you buy one from the store? If the latter, what brand did you use? Also, how much did you upgrade to and why?
Just looking for reccomendations / opinions on upgrade size and different brands that would be good for this.
Edit: Sorry - I should have put this in the User Interface section. Requesting that an admin move this.
Just looking for reccomendations / opinions on upgrade size and different brands that would be good for this.
Edit: Sorry - I should have put this in the User Interface section. Requesting that an admin move this.
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I pulled the flash card out of my 12" bench TP and put it in a reader but couldn't read a thing but that may be because this is a Linux based OS and my reader was attached to a PC running a Windows OS. I didn't think of that until after the fact.
The flash card is I presume where the TP's OS resides and that would need to be tranferred. Might need a Linux guru.
1. Pick up a Compact Flash to IDE adaptor, plug card and adaptor into slave IDE port.
2. Download and burn a Linux distro to boot from DVD.
3. Determine partition scheme on CF card
4. Mimic on new card only resizing to match max size of new card
5. Copy contents of partitions to appropriate locations
The biggest time sink is setting up a machine to do this.
Joel
Knoppix is bootable from CD/DVD: http://www.knoppix.com/
It's the same process to upgrade drives on a Lansonic, ReQuest, TiVo, etc.
When I run across the opportunity I'll write something up about it.
Vinc
Yeah that was the thread I was thinking of. I guess he didn't figure it out actually....
I confirmed today that the RAM in the MVPxxxx, CV5, CV7, and CV10 can not be upgraded. 64meg is all you get. The flash memory upgrade only allows you to increase the number of pages or images in the panel file.
You need at least 128meg of RAM for acceptable weather radar animation.
I guess that officially puts an end to that. That is unless I get clients with deeper pockets that can afford the bigger panels.
But that does raise the question of why? Or in this case why not. You would think for the price of these devices and the low cost of ram and flash cards AMX would have a vested interest it assembling these things with the best available components. Say a $40 dollars RAM or Flash card instead of the $10 cards installed (slightly exaggerated). Granted when these things were originally designed and engineered the cards were substantially more money and had somewhat comparable capabilies to that which was generally available but they are now obsolete and to stay on the cutting edge you have to stay on the cutting edge with installed capabilites especially when these parts are at the core of the systems operations and dictate its functionality.
You can buy a 2GB 100x CF for $118.00 and the 64 MB 4x which is probably similar to what's installed can be had for $12.00. RAM is slightly more expensive but for the price everything should sell w/ 256MB but I'd now be happy w/ 128MB.
Stifled by $20.00 worth of hardware on a $4,500.00 device!
I don't have a unit to bust open here - anyone got the vitals so I can get some reasonably-priced RAM?
Thanks
-B