From: Gayle Horton <gayle66a_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 16:11:54 -0400

Oh, that makes me very sad. I bought it off e-bay only three months ago.
Perhaps I'll try removing and reinserting the battery. Thanks.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Woods" <christof_at_infinitus.co.uk>
To: "'Rockbox'" <rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se>
Sent: Friday, May 19, 2006 2:45 PM
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 2006-05-19