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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: screen on iriver 120 displays "rock box loading" and is stuckthereRe: screen on iriver 120 displays "rock box loading" and is stuckthere
From: Grant Hardy <grant_hardy_at_telus.net>
Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 16:18:30 -0700 Is it easy to replace the drive? Could someone with little "experience" of drives and such do it? Grant ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Woods" <christof_at_infinitus.co.uk> To: "'Rockbox'" <rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se> Sent: Friday, May 19, 2006 11:45 AM Subject: RE: screen on iriver 120 displays "rock box loading" and is stuckthere > Unfortunately, it may well be the disk - if there's physical damage to > either the platters or the read/write head (e.g. if it's been exposed to > excessive Gs whilst the head's been seeking or reading from the drive) > then > you could have a knackered hard drive. > > I dropped my H140 from waist height onto concrete, fortunately just after > the drive had spun down and the head parked, but it still caused severe > damage to some parts of the drive (meaning that it took almost ten minutes > to boot into the iRiver firmware - I didn't have RB on that player because > I > suspected the drive was starting to fail anyway - and I couldn't copy some > of my album folders off the drive. Eventually, I ended up just claiming on > the insurance (I'm covered for accidental damage as a student, don't know > if > you could claim on your home and contents insurance if you have any) but > basically my problem was terminal. > > I took care of my player, and only dropped it or knocked it a few times by > accident - kid gloves the rest of the time. The sounds you describe are > very > reminiscent of imminent HD failure... You can still buy replacement drives > for the devices, they're little tiny Toshiba hard drives (MK4004AH I > believe > is the device's model number for the hard drive), but they're quite > expensive and tough to get hold of. > > Not as tough as getting a new iriver though! I had to SCOUR the web to > find > a replacement (the insurance company took possession of the old player and > wouldn't give it back even though they understood what the problem was, so > I > had to go hunting for a new one... The replacement I was initially offered > at was an Innoplus I-With 400, which is frankly such a shockingly poor > player I actually laughed down the phone). But I digress, if you can get > it > to boot into either the iriver or Rockbox firmware at all and initialise > in > USB at any point, copy off any files you don't already have on your PC > quicksharp, just in case. > > Christopher > > -----Original Message----- > From: gayle horton [mailto:gayle66a_at_hotmail.com] > Sent: 19 May 2006 14:45 > To: rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se > Subject: screen on iriver 120 displays "rock box loading" and is stuck > there > > >> Each time I restart now, I get the "rockbox loading" message that doesn't > disappear >> and the disk keeps clicking away inside. At least that may mean the > player isn't dead, >> and that it's probably rockbox. > Received on 2006-05-20 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |