Personal Animation Recorder IDE AV hard drive.

[oldman3000]

Hi, I am looking for a IDE hard drive for my PAR card.  My second one just went out, what a drag.....
I would like to get at least 2 hard drives, I want one for a spare.  Thanks for any help.

Mike
San Diego

[Jeff]

I just used a plain old WD 10 gig IDE drive on my PAR card and it seemed to work fine. Granted I haven't done anything really in depth with it other than a quick test to see if the card worked.

Do these cards need a special AV drive? Do you know what the maximum supported capacity is?

[Jope]

And have there been special AV drives since the mid 90s? Modern drives are so quick, that I haven't been able to notice, when any thermal recalibration is happening.

Nowadays we stream a lot more data (bits per second) than the PAR card does without any stuttering on just about any old drive.

[oldman3000]

I guess what I'm asking is can I use a new IDE hard drive or I need to find a smaller unit.  I think there was a problem with 8 gigs or more, but I thought that problem was for 2 drives, not one?  I like using this card, works great and gives me 24 animations.

Mike
San Diego

[Jeff]

There may be a problem with capacities greater than 8 gigs but in the end you will probably have to test it yourself as it seems that results vary. I have read a post from at least one person using a larger drive with his, but I can't find it now. I also don't know what revision of PAR he was using.

Look here for some information about boards and chip revisions. BBOAH Par
Let me know if you can conform anything as I have one of these along with several TBC IV's and would be curious.

Jeff

[oldman3000]

I'll look around at some of my sons old PC and pull out an IDE drive and try it.  I'll let you know.  It would be nice to have a 100gig HD that has a warranty.

Mike

[oldman3000]

I have 4 40 gig Hard drives, I'll see what happens tonight.

Mike
San Diego

[T3000]

PAR drive list

Small list of compatable IDE HDs for the PAR. It is by no means complete.