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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: Help with Recorder 20..Re: Help with Recorder 20..
From: Christian Mahr <christian.mahr.ulm_at_arcor.de>
Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2005 22:24:40 +0100 Hi Kyle, I´d recommend 2 steps: 1. try again with a freshly externally charged battery (NiMH cells) set. This sometime does wonders. 2. try to look for loose connections of battery connector. On mine, I had to resolder the battery connections as described on rockbox homepage. 3. If you already dismounted the recorder, try to connect the disk to your "normal" PC by means of a 2,5" -to-3.5" adapter, f.e. to the 2nd IDE connector. 3.1 you should be able to find the drive in the BIOS. If not --> sounds bad 3.2 The PC (windows?) when booted, should recognize the drive as well... I this does not work, the drive is probably broken.... Regards Christian Am Sonntag, 6. März 2005 18:56 schrieb Kyle McGee: > Hello - > > I've had a Archos Recorder 20 for some time and it has > been a work horse. But, the other day it stopped > working and then came up with the following error upon > reboot: > > ATA error: -42 > > Press ON to debug > > > After pressing ON, the screen runs some tests, but > doesn't give me anything I can translate. I can also > boot it with the original Archos software and it give > the following message: > > Read access error! > > Can't read from hard drive > > > Upon bootup (with either software), I can hear the > drive making chug noises, but not spinning up. I think > there are drive problems, but it may also be a > connector. I took the unit apart, but I can't find > anything that looks obviously wrong - to my untrained > eyes. > > > Any ideas? I am pretty sure it isn't the batteries or > software. I think it's the drive. Any quick solution? > > Thanks in advance for your help! > > Kyle > > > > > > __________________________________ > Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! > Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web > http://birthday.yahoo.com/netrospective/ > _______________________________________________ > http://cool.haxx.se/mailman/listinfo/rockbox _______________________________________________ http://cool.haxx.se/mailman/listinfo/rockbox Received on 2005-03-06 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |