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iRiver h120 - can the flash memory get corrupted ?

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Cheese_Us:
Hi, this is a continuation from a thread I posted here:

http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=7565.0

As I probably have to deal with different issues now and couldn't get any help from the old thread I thought I'd start a new one:

In short:
Accidently disconnected the h120 while writing in Rockbox USB mode, after this it didn't boot up proberly. Always changes between connected/disconnected and the HD never stops spinning if I boot to iRiver firmware. When I boot to Rockbox I get a "Panic Sata -32 error".
First I thought, I destroyed the File Allocation Table or so, so I bought an adapter to connect the HD to my PC. Luckily so I could at least make a backup of my data.  The HD is working fine on my PC.

Following the thread about completely removing all traces from Rockbox and starting new from scratch (found here: http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=6807.0)
I used a low level disk wipe tool (KillDisk) and even used the Unix "dd" command to completely clear the disk.
Now the strange thing:
When I put the wiped disk back into my iRiver and turn on I still get a "Panic Sata -32 error".  So there must be still traces left of Rockbox somewhere I guess. When I put the iRiver original firmware hex in the root directory and try to boot up to it I still get the same result described above.
So I assume the whole thing could be a matter of a corrupted flash/eeprom or something like this.

Any advice what I could do on this?

Llorean:
Putting the original iRiver firmware hex in the root directory doesn't do anything. Assuming you just want to clear off Rockbox, have you actually booted into the iRiver firmware and flashed it back to a non-bootloader version?

Cheese_Us:
Problem is, as I've written, I cannot boot up properly to original iRiver firmware nor Rockbox.
If I switch on the h120 holding the record-button pressed it starts showing the iRiver boot-up logo but then does weird things like switching back and forth between "USB disconnected" and "connected" and the HD never stops.

Currently I've connected the HD to my PC via an IDE adapter, have run various disk-check tool, low-level formatted it but the problem remains.
On the PC the HD is running fine though.

Llorean:
If the problem was occurring in the iRiver firmware, and seemed to relate to your USB hardware, I'm not sure why you followed the series of steps you did. It sounds like you've somehow damaged your USB port.

Cheese_Us:
Because the first thing that came to my mind was that I've corrupted the File Allocation Table or the Rockbox settings somehow, which, as I've read in another thread, ar stored on a hidden sector on the HD and the only way to get rid of them would be a low level format. And no, the problem was occuring having the iHP 120 connected in Rockbox USB mode.

Do you mean I've damaged the USB port on my computer or the iRiver?
On the computer couldn't be, because I've checked on various other machines, same behaviour.

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