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Thanks to Mikeyboy and eveyone else who helped me find what I needed, I purchased a Maxtor 120 gig 7200 RPM drive (the version with 2MB cache, not 8MB) to repair my failing replay 3030 (you can read the history of the problem here: http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showt...hreadid=194502 )
I attempted to clone my existing Fireball drive, but my computer and the RTVPatch linux program were unable to read the drive - I think perhaps it really did die. Instead, I downloaded the replay 30xx image, followed the instructions exactly and imaged my drive. There were no problems during the process. I made sure the Master option was still set on the new HD, and installed it in the replay. It booted up fine! I restored factory defaults to remove any customizations left behind on the image, and set myself up with my local info. It connected and got the channel info without problems. The only problem I do have is that as often as every 5 minutes and usually at least once every 20 minutes during live playback, the HD makes a clicking noise - usually a series of hard drive noises lasting about a second. Most of the time when this happens, the picure either freezes, the signal goes out (I get the blue no signal screen), or both. It is restored very quickly, but as you can imagine, it is very frusterating for this to happen every five minutes.
I have some thoughts as to why this might be happening, but I was hoping someone with a little more experience could help.
1. I noticed there are warnings about EZ-BIOS for large hard drive support in older computers. I have EZ-BIOS on the windows drive I used as the source for the image. I did not explicitly put EZ-BIOS on the new HD. It says that it will likely fail with EZ-BIOS installed on any drive, but I'm not sure if it failed or if it just has other problems? Does this behavior sound like an EZ-BIOS induced failure, or should it have not worked at all?
2. I also noticed in the FAQ of the RTVHack page, a mention of Large Cluster Support. The instructions for copying an image to the replay drive said to answer yes to all reset partition questions. I can't remember specifically if it asked me whether I wanted to reformat using a larger cluster size, but I definitely used version 2.2.4. I'm not getting any out of memory errors, but the FAQ does recommend using the large cluster option for 30xx replays and drives over 80gig. Could this be my problem? Is there any way of knowing whether I did large cluster or not?
Any other thoughts as to why I might be having this problem? I was so happy with my 42 hours of storage at high quality, but its useless if it's going to keep doing this...
Thanks
I attempted to clone my existing Fireball drive, but my computer and the RTVPatch linux program were unable to read the drive - I think perhaps it really did die. Instead, I downloaded the replay 30xx image, followed the instructions exactly and imaged my drive. There were no problems during the process. I made sure the Master option was still set on the new HD, and installed it in the replay. It booted up fine! I restored factory defaults to remove any customizations left behind on the image, and set myself up with my local info. It connected and got the channel info without problems. The only problem I do have is that as often as every 5 minutes and usually at least once every 20 minutes during live playback, the HD makes a clicking noise - usually a series of hard drive noises lasting about a second. Most of the time when this happens, the picure either freezes, the signal goes out (I get the blue no signal screen), or both. It is restored very quickly, but as you can imagine, it is very frusterating for this to happen every five minutes.
I have some thoughts as to why this might be happening, but I was hoping someone with a little more experience could help.
1. I noticed there are warnings about EZ-BIOS for large hard drive support in older computers. I have EZ-BIOS on the windows drive I used as the source for the image. I did not explicitly put EZ-BIOS on the new HD. It says that it will likely fail with EZ-BIOS installed on any drive, but I'm not sure if it failed or if it just has other problems? Does this behavior sound like an EZ-BIOS induced failure, or should it have not worked at all?
2. I also noticed in the FAQ of the RTVHack page, a mention of Large Cluster Support. The instructions for copying an image to the replay drive said to answer yes to all reset partition questions. I can't remember specifically if it asked me whether I wanted to reformat using a larger cluster size, but I definitely used version 2.2.4. I'm not getting any out of memory errors, but the FAQ does recommend using the large cluster option for 30xx replays and drives over 80gig. Could this be my problem? Is there any way of knowing whether I did large cluster or not?
Any other thoughts as to why I might be having this problem? I was so happy with my 42 hours of storage at high quality, but its useless if it's going to keep doing this...
Thanks