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Zutroy:
Hello,

My rockboxed iriver 120 crashed recently with a *panic* error and started showing corrupted file and folder names. I ran a disc check on it and found that the .rockbox folder was corrupted. After reformatting the drive (fat32) and putting a fresh new install of the rockbox files on there it hangs on boot with the rockbox firmware (after reporting the battery level). By booting into the iriver firmware it boots OK but it thinks the hd is 0MB and empty, or has 1 corrupt file on it sometimes.

The drive has been tested and is OK (random read/write all sectors), I've tried another drive from an ipod in it and exactly the same thing happens. Both drives work fine in other players. When connected to the PC via usb the hard drive can be read by the PC just fine. If i use the iriver firmware option to format the hd however, it leaves it in a raw state and doesn't create a partition.

quite stumped as what to do, i can rule out the hd itself as being faulty and don't know what's causing the error.

any ideas on this would be appreciated, as i love my iriver :(

Multiplex:
This sounds a bit like a known issue with the bootloader and a strange partition type http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=16110.0 the strange thing is that you've tried formating with the original firmware and it still wasn't OK.

Another thread here http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=19545.msg140584#msg140584 with a very similar sounding issue.

Good Luck

Zutroy:
Symptoms sound the same, but the drive has only one primary partition, in another player it boots rockbox just fine, i don't think the problem is related to the hd but it may have initially been caused by it.

ej0rge:
So the drive works in the h120 in usb mode?

Maybe you should back it up, wipe the partition table, and start over with partitioning and formatting.

Multiplex:
If the drive is OK in another player, and especially if it is OK with USB access it may be the infamous daughter board problem... the connector for the HDD and the USB and its bridge chip are mounted on a small daughter board off the main board. The daughter board is secured by some short pillars which are soldered to the two boards, if this fails the multi-way connectors between the boards become lose and poor connection is the result, and you state that you've been swapping drives over - maybe the mechanical movement has caused poor connection. Usually there is an ATA Error but I don't know if that is always true.

Here's a thread that I commented to a while back http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=13118.0, I have no personal experience of this issue, I just keep praying that my player doesn't suffer...

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