Phaser 8550DP Hard Drive Upgrade?

[schalliol]

I've done a bit of searching and it seems that there may be a HD.exe file I can get from Xerox to format a hard drive for my printer, though I've only seen it in reference to an 850 or 860. I've also seen a reference here to a drive board, which is noted as (The 'HDD-board' has a PCI646U2 IC on it to convert the IDE to the PCICIA slot of the mainboard. It is a HDD controller. For the rest is has no logic function for the mainboard.). Xerox references a "Productivity Kit" (Includes Personal Print, Secure Print, Proof Print, Collation, Extended Font Storage With Internal Hard Drive) for $499 that sounds as though is just a hard drive with a bit of software on it (20GB I think). Just as 512MB of RAM is $719 from them, is there a way to get a hard drive and be off to the races? Thanks!

 

[schalliol]

Bump...I'm sorry to bump, but I think that someone knows the answer here and I would really appreciate the response. Thanks!

 

[rschus]

I found a HD on Ebay some time ago. Right now [11/10 1030am pst] there is one with a mainboard, duplexer and 6 gig HD. But it expires in a few hours. Might watch and see if it gets re-listed.

http://tinyurl.com/745g9

or

http://cgi.ebay.com/Xerox-Tektronix...ryZ11182QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Good luck
Bob S

 

[schalliol]

This would be very different for the 8550DP vs the 850 though, right? The 850 is probably 7-8 years old. Good idea though! I'll search eBay.

 

[rschus]

Sorry. Mis-read the title. I guess I should put on my glasses.

 

[schalliol]

Easy mistake!