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Posted by Franc Zabkar on 08/07/07 06:36
On Sun, 05 Aug 2007 16:50:59 +0800, Ron <ron_j_mayer@hotpop.com> put
finger to keyboard and composed:
>On Sat, 04 Aug 2007 00:29:41 -0000, Pana Diga <nobody@mixmin.net>
>wrote:
>
>>On Sat, 04 Aug 2007 03:48:52 +0800, Ron <ron_j_mayer@hotpop.com> wrote:
>>
>>>Panasonic DVD Rec HDD faulty..... Can any hard disk ( say
>>>from a different manufacturer and/or of different capacity ) be
>>>used as a replacement?
>>
>>How do you know the hard disk is defective? Can you format under
>>Functions?
>The original HDD stopped functioning in the DVD Recorder.
>After removing it and connecting to my computer IDE channel,
>BIOS recognises the HDDt ...but,,, the ID is corrupted (contains
>illegal characters) due, probably, to the HDD circuit board firmware
>IC fault.
>The drive does not show up under Win'98, Win-XP or Linux.
>[ Thanks for all the responses..... :-) ]
I would think that if the firmware was corrupt, then the drive's
controller would either report a bad checksum, or not spin up the
motor.
Can you post the drive IDs, both expected and actual?
I saw a problem such as this in one of the Win98 newsgroups and in
that case the error was narrowed down to one particular data bit.
This is the relevant thread:
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion/msg/1e561df4ba4b54c4?dmode=source&hl=en
Here is an excerpt:
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Shouldn't ...
BUJIP5Q IPA3102AP
.... really be ...
FUJITSU MPE3102AT ? (or MPE3102AP ?)
If so, then it is no wonder that a Fujitsu diagnostic doesn't
recognise a "BUJIP5Q" (or was it BUJIPSQ ?) hard disc.
If you analyse the ASCII bit patterns for each of the errant
characters, you will see that they all differ in bit 2
B 42h F 46h
P 50h T 54h
Q 51h U 55h
I 49h M 4Dh
A 41h E 45h
I'd suspect that there is something wrong with your IDE cable, or your
HD's or motherboard's IDE connector, probably at pin 13 or pin 8.
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- Franc Zabkar
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