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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: RE: screen on iriver 120 displays "rock box loading" and is stuck thereRE: screen on iriver 120 displays "rock box loading" and is stuck there
From: Christopher Woods <christof_at_infinitus.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 19:45:21 +0100 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 2006-05-19 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |