Last week my Archos Recorder v1 (Jukebox 20) started crashing frequently with "ATA error: -11". Now I get that every time, on power up, even if there is no hard drive or any storage device in at all.
It had been working fine, until last week. For a few weeks, I had been using a CF card & adapter for the hard drive. Without a normal hard drive, there are not places for all the screws, but it seemed everything was holding together OK by friction. Now I suspect maybe the batteries were pressing the daughter boards outwards too hard, and breaking something. Or maybe it was just age, or some other stress or bump.
I am thinking that there must be a broken connection, or a short. So it would make sense to use an ohm meter to test traces. I will test that each pin-socket connects to the corresponding trace on the main board. Does that sound like a sensible approach?
Rockbox Technical Forums
Topic: Archos Recorder, ATA error: -11 (Read 1383 times)