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New Toshiba MK1231GAL not working
torne:
--- Quote from: sordup on October 03, 2010, 07:45:15 PM --->torne, I messaged you about what exactly you are offering by looking at my drive but have not heard back.
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I replied to your email ages ago..
If you post it to me or another dev who lives closer, we can take a look and see how the drive responds to ATA setup, and determine what is odd about it. It seems unlikely that it can't be made to work.
sordup:
Torne - very sorry, I had expected to see a response here in my message box. I had evidently forgotten how I contacted you. No worries. Thanks for your suggestions.
I suppose I will try to return the drive, but if that doesn't work, is there an index of developers and their locations that I could use to contact someone in that field in order to have it tested.
Or, is there anyway that I can be pointed along the road of testing it myself? Would that require special hardware or just software that I could easily acquire?
Thanks again for your time.
torne:
There isn't any such index, no, but if you post which country and/or state you are in someone can probably be found. :)
You could probably do some things yourself, there's no *special* hardware needed but it might be useful to have a way to mount the player over USB, and USB drive enclosures that can take a ZIF drive are not particularly common. (is it a ZIF drive? I don't actually know...) Debugging and testing by "remote control" is kinda tedious, but I'd be willing to help you with that too if possible.
How far do you actually get trying to put Rockbox on it? Are you able to run anything at all? If not then you aren't going to be able to test it very much without a USB connection or a different model of player that can take the drive and boot further.
sordup:
Well, yes, that's my problem; I don't seem to be able to mount the drive at all. Windows (7, 64bit) Disk Manager "sees" it but will not initialize it. I only receive an I/O error and Swissnife returns a Read/Write error, so no initializing or formatting has been possible for me.
As far as interface goes, yes, it is a ZIF drive, but I have two types of ZIF to 50-pin ATA adapter that work fine for all my ZIF drives up to now.
My location is San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA
torne:
--- Quote from: sordup on October 04, 2010, 09:20:16 PM ---Well, yes, that's my problem; I don't seem to be able to mount the drive at all. Windows (7, 64bit) Disk Manager "sees" it but will not initialize it. I only receive an I/O error and Swissnife returns a Read/Write error, so no initializing or formatting has been possible for me.
As far as interface goes, yes, it is a ZIF drive, but I have two types of ZIF to 50-pin ATA adapter that work fine for all my ZIF drives up to now.
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I assume you mean 40-pin, i.e. standard IDE, so it's connected directly to your pc? That's ideal to try stuff out but you won't get anything useful out of it in Windows.
A good starting point would be to download SysRescCd from http://www.sysresccd.org/ which can be burnt to CD or booted from a USB drive. Have you used Linux before? The dmesg output from booting with only the problematic drive connected would be interesting, as would the output of hdparm -i /dev/sda (or whichever drive it comes up as)
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