FWIW, you can put up to a 100 gig drive in there if you want/need to, it
just will only recognize the first 32.

Here is the procedure, from Alesis site:
http://www.alesis.com/support/faqs/swappingdrives.pdf

"Mike Rivers" wrote in message
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In article writes:

Question: My Masterlink is apparently on its last legs (hard drive
crashing, lots of weird messages, etc.)

Why not replace the disk drive and see if that solves your problem?
The Masterlink is a very handy device. If it can't support anything
larger than a 32 GB drive, you may have to do a little looking around
in order to find one that "small" but they're out there. The Mackie
hard disk recorders are like that (there's a BIOS update that extends
it to 120 GB) and people are buying good 30 GB drives from sources
that they usually find through Pricewatch.com. It's worth $50-75 to
try to restore the Masterlink.

Before I repair/replace it, I am
inquiring into the storage/transfer/mixdown preferences for the pros out
there in the DAW market.

A lot of people are mixing "in the box" straight to the computer's
disk drive, and the mixed files copied to CD or DVD as data, but if
you normally mix through a console connected to the Masterlink output,
there's still nothing wrong with that. Professional mastering shops
make a point of being able to accept just about any medium so you
really don't need to worry about what you send them. I'm pretty sure
that the only thing special about the Alesis CD24 format is a table of
contents (like on an audio CD) and there are actually real WAV files
written to the CD, so a Masterlink isn't required to read it, only to
play it like an audio CD.


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