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need a hard drive for a fostex d160

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  • 06-06-2010 7:20pm
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    120_Minutes
    Registered Users Posts: 4,706 ✭✭✭120_Minutes


    hey guys, i was given a fostex d160 for free a few years back, but as i had no use for it, it lay in storage. well now i do have a use for it, and am going to hook it up to an o2r to record some band rehearsals. however it has no hard drive. a bit of online research reveals that without a software/eeprom change the max size drive it can handle is 30gb. now ide drives that small are tricky to get nowadays.....and the sw/eeprom change will also be tricky as i dont think fostex support this recorder anymore.

    so if anyone has either 10 20 or 30 gig ide drives they dont want i'll take em for a few quid. i'm not recording albums, just rehearsals so we can get working demos of the tunes

    or if anyone has/had a d160 and has gone through what i'm going through feel free to offer any advice!


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    #2
    120_Minutes
    Registered Users Posts: 4,706 ✭✭✭120_Minutes


    3.5inch i believe, you can use 2.5 but then you need to buy a drive bay adaptor of some type.


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    Echoplex
    Registered Users Posts: 77 ✭✭Echoplex


    Brilliant Machine. Drive Nightmare. They are very fussy about drives.
    More than fussy, it was really down to one drive.
    Quantum FireBall, small size only. I can't remember what the max size was.
    SCV London should be able to help you with the EPROM bit, they used to be able to burn them. They might have a drive or two. I will take a look when I get back to my studio next week. A know a couple of guys with these machines. Probably worth buying the whole thing off them , including a couple of drives.
    DD


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    scooterdoyle
    Registered Users Posts: 86 ✭✭scooterdoyle


    comin in a bit late on this one i know!!!
    but i have an old quantum fireball drive that i used to record an album on with a D160 about 10 years ago
    if i could get the files off the drive to remix them in protools id give it to ya


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