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s_kates81

29-05-2010, 05:35 PM

Hi guys, my hard disk installed inside azbox is recognized sometimes, and sometimes not. If it's no more recognized, I need to install a new firmware or reset factory settings, then it's recognized once again. But it's just for first boot, then it's no more recognized. It's really weird ! Any of you guys having such problem with internal hard disk?

Also, the hard disk is formatted in linux by the box itself. So it's in Linux format all the time

peter1176

29-05-2010, 10:07 PM

i had the same problem . i set the jumper pin on the Hdd to 1.5 that sorted it

s_kates81

30-05-2010, 06:39 AM

my hard disk is 3.5 size i.e. same size as of a pc hard disk. Yours also the same?

peter1176

30-05-2010, 12:27 PM

yer mine is a 3.5 W/D green jumper setting
OPT1 enable jumper on pins 5-6
1.5gb/s data transfer speed activated

4@@@@

30-05-2010, 02:16 PM

Do you alos checked the messages after the problem occured?
Use
dmesg
to show log entires - maybe you'll find the problem 'explained' there.

s_kates81

01-06-2010, 08:05 AM

any other way to solve the problem other than jumper settings? I don't have the jumpers with me anymore. They are long lost

Dig Deep

01-06-2010, 10:03 AM

You can always bend them

qwess

03-06-2010, 08:26 AM

any other way to solve the problem other than jumper settings? I don't have the jumpers with me anymore. They are long lost
your HDD, is > 1TB?

s_kates81

03-06-2010, 10:24 AM

My HDD is 1 TB to be exact. It's Western Digital 3.5 Inch PC type one

zeini

03-06-2010, 11:23 AM

From official forum:

Please provide your HDD full reference.
If your HDD is a EARS or AARS series you will get a problem because it uses 4Ko sector, you should use a EADS.

Moreover the very last % last longer than the other one, so I think that you didn't wait long enough so be patient and I think the the formating will end up by itself.

Hello,

EARS are not supported, please choose an EADS model in this brand.

Pr2

I found the way how to make it work :)
1. set jumpers 7-8 on disk
2. format in ext2 with "Acronis Disk Director Suite 10" (must be single primary partition)
and it works.
do not use "Paragon hard disk manager" it does not work with it
it took me 3 days and at least 10 formats of the drive to figure it out.
it also works if you format it with telnet but only 478gb partition is usable