Acramatic 2100 Arrow 1000 need help

[PinnacleMachine]

Originally Posted by flyinphill I saw on Ebay several people selling adapters that replace a standard IDE hard drive with a device that uses a camera-style SD memory card. I assume that this is what he was refffering to doing. When I get my current HD situation sorted out, I may try it jsut to see if it works.

I looked at those products - the issue I have is that a 16G flash drive is $1000+ where as a 100G IDE HD is $45. I have a clone of my HD on a CD with Ghost. Although when the current drive I have dies I may consider switching to a flash drive - hopefully the cost will come down.

[flyinphill]

Originally Posted by PinnacleMachine Why do you need a USB? The A2100 control has a HD so program storage shouldn't be a problem.

Taking large numbers of files in and out of the machine, cloning or backing up the hard drive externally, etc. I have had many occasions when I wished I had a USB.

[flyinphill]

There is an Ebay seller from Hong Kong that has the IDE adapter with an 8GB card installed for $34.90 free shipping. There is another seller with a true solid state drive card with 32Gb for $130 + $10 shipping.

[CHAD LAWSON]

Sorry for taking so long to get back to this i have been very buisy with training and projects. We use a circuit board for an IDE to flash rom adapter. I believe the total price is around fifty bucks. I am not sure where our IT guy is buying these but i know it is through an oversees whole sale distributor. One thing you must do is partition the card as the hard drive is then install your ghost image after that it should be no different than changing out a hard drive. The board we use plugs right into the power supply and cable to the hard drive so there is no changeing of anything. The nice part is you can just pull the card and ghost it for a yearly back up using something like Norton Ghost. I would like to see someone figure out how to put a PCMCIA card slot or a USB slot on these controls as our palm pilot with RS232 is very slow.

[PinnacleMachine]

Chad - what size of drives are you running?

JP

[mte.jalal]

i have an IDE adaptor it's about 30$