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sordup:
I have just received my new Toshiba MK1231GAL 120gb hard drive in order to upgrade my iRiver H340.
The drive is not recognized by Windows and cannot be initialized or formatted by Windows because of I/O error. When attempting to format with SwissNife it tries to read the drive and returns a "Read/Write Error".  Repeated attempts at unplugging and replugging have the same outcome, and this is the also same outcome as I get with plugging it into an old H140 I have for testing and whether I use my new ZIF to CF adapter or my older ribbon style adapter.
My old Toshiba 100gb drive continues to work fine in any of the above scenarios.

I imagine the deal is that I bought a bum drive, but thought I would put it up here in case anyone had any other ideas or similar experiences.

Thanks

Chronon:
This drive has some special notes in the wiki:
http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/HardDriveReplacement#Toshiba_AN1

It seems someone else has found it to be incompatible with Gigabeats (edit: and USB enclosures) too, so it may not necessarily be defective.  I think it would be interesting to get one of these drives into the hands of a developer to try to figure out what's going on (no idea if you are interested or whether or not your drive is actually functional).

torne:
If you are willing, I would be interested in looking at the drive to see if I can figure it out. I would return it afterward, of course, and there should be no risk to the drive. Other developers can vouch for my trustworthiness I'm sure ;)

sordup:
Well I am surprised I wasn't able to determine this earlier through this forum and surprised there isn't much discussion of this here. But it would seem that the Toshiba MK1231GAL drive is not compatible with my iRiver machines (or my computer, for that matter!?). This is strange to me as I have come to depend on the Toshiba drives for my upgrades up until now. I suppose that's why I didn't do good research beforehand.

It does seem, however, that it would be being screamed about somewhere over this forum. Surely I'm not the only one (well, I have seen one other) who has made this mistake.

>torne, I messaged you about what exactly you are offering by looking at my drive but have not heard back.

Chronon:
We usually try to point people to the HardDriveReplacement page that I linked earlier.  It is a bit out of date now, but it does have a warning about this particular drive.

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