Anybody taken harddrive out yet?
#31
Originally Posted by mikepro
Man Vig, I want you to come over here and show me how to take my car apart!
I wonder if the reason it is a relatively small drive (30GB) is that whatever OS they are using can only support a maximum partition size of 32GB. So, you may theoretically be able to pull out the HD, and use ghost or dd to copy it to a new, larger disk. But, you might not actually be able to get much more usable space.
Someone will try it eventually.... I don't have nav so it won't be me.
I wonder if the reason it is a relatively small drive (30GB) is that whatever OS they are using can only support a maximum partition size of 32GB. So, you may theoretically be able to pull out the HD, and use ghost or dd to copy it to a new, larger disk. But, you might not actually be able to get much more usable space.
Someone will try it eventually.... I don't have nav so it won't be me.
i'd say if the OS can recognize more than 30G, purchasing the 80G would be a very worthwile mod for increased music box capacity. of course, it would be a pain to fill 60G worth of music from single CDs. this would be most practical if a way was found to hook up to a PC and upload music directly.
#33
Originally Posted by mbhforum
I am confused, I thought the hard drive that came with the Inifniti was 9.3 GB? What's with all this talk about 30 GB?
The next largest in the Seagate series is a 40G, which wasn't available yet in fall of '06. Hitachi has the Endurastar line that goes up to 50G for automotive, but I don't think anybody makes an 80G for automotive use yet.
If it turns out that swapping out and ghosting a drive isn't a big deal, ordinary 2.5" pata laptop drives are electrically identical. They may (or may not) die fairly quickly, but they can give us 120G in the meantime for about $70.
#37
Originally Posted by Garnet Canuck
Vig, what's the scoop brotha? How did you make out with the HD?
If I have a chance tomorrow I'll take the nav unit back out, remove all the little screws and see what the deal is with the hard drive. I know it's wider than a laptop drive, so it's probably on rails or something.
I'll see and report back.
#40
there was another thread about this a while ago, and I thought someone figured out that the OS on the nav system uses QNX. If so, there aren't any freely available stable implementations of the QNX filesystem, so unless you have access to a QNX system for mounting and manipulating the drive, good luck .
Edit: found it. https://g35driver.com/forums/g35-sedan-v36-2007-08/162734-qnx-os-used-g.html
That's the thread where someone found an article about gracenote's software supporting QNX, and some possible comments in the article alluding to Nissan using this software and thus using QNX as their OS.
Edit: found it. https://g35driver.com/forums/g35-sedan-v36-2007-08/162734-qnx-os-used-g.html
That's the thread where someone found an article about gracenote's software supporting QNX, and some possible comments in the article alluding to Nissan using this software and thus using QNX as their OS.
Last edited by dopey; 10-05-2007 at 06:28 PM.
#42
QNX appears to have gone open source and has a version of the OS available for Windows. If the G uses this OS, I assume some clever soul could find a way to read the hard drive.
http://www.qnx.com/products/getmomentics/index.html
http://www.qnx.com/products/getmomentics/index.html
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