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Has anyone replaced a hard drive in an ICP MX controler with just an off the shelf hard drive instead of the Mitel replacement? If so how do you format the drive or does the ICP do it when you insert the flash card?
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I haven't but I would be surprised if there are not some hidden files that the system is looking for before it will boot the drive - but then - I could be wrong.
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That is the same thing I was thinking. I have an ICP in my office and have been wanting to try doing a replacement with a plain hard drive but I didnt know how to format the drive and something always comes up and I dont get to try it. If I can ever get around to doing it I will post the results.
Anyone else have any ideas?
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I believe you will find that the flash will fully prepare the drive.
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The only thing you have to worry about when purchasing a oem hard drive is that it meets Mitel Specs. One of those specs are that it be a 256 or 512 meg hard drive, 1 gig and 2 gig hard drives have never been approved for the sx200icp as they have never been tested with 1 gig and 2 gig hard drive. Maybe someday they will soon as the supply of 256 and 512 hard drives are getting harder to find. Hopefully Mitel someday will understand this and approve those hard drives, 1 gig and 2 gig hard drives will work but will not be supported by Mitel. When you run the Initial installation software on the sx200icp it will format the hard drive for you.
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Hmmm, I see an income source. Buy 10 or 50 512 meg hard drives and preformat for 200ICP, then 'Hit E-bay'.  John C.
When I was young, I was Liberal. As I aged and wised up, I became Conservative. Now that I'm old, I have settled on Curmudgeon.
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In regards to the compact flash drives, Mitel uses an industrial version as opposed to the consumer rated ones. 512 is needed to support the new 5330-5340 sets. As for any drive replacement, I would look to use an identical version as to the ones being currenly installed and shipped by the manufacturer.
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Forget the hard drive all together! Go to your local computer supply house, and purchase an 8 gig SANDISK compact flash ($45.00?). Unless you're using the 'record a call' feature, it's more capacity than you'll ever need.
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I managed to copy a drive useing Kubuntu dd and it worked very well but I had a Mitel drive to copy from....did someone say ebay????
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no, but I say SANDISK almost once a week!!!
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