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September 11th, 2006, 17:50
Someone passed me an ipod mini wich isn't working properly. My first guess was the hard drive, specially because a scan from the ipod menu would hang on 80%. I passed the drive to a PC (it's just a Seagate microdrive), and it works just fine after being formatted. However, the ipod won't recognize the drive properly, when I inquire the SerialNumber it just shows garbage. but on a USB CF reader it works just fine (have already done a low level formatting).
When I install this drive on my PDA (dell axim), it's not recognized, so I'm a little bit confused as I think these drives should be "generic".
Is there any special firmware for this kind of drives? How can I know if the drive has some physical failure? Is there anything I can do to get the drive working on the ipod assuming it's in good condition?
Regards
September 12th, 2006, 20:22
This is probably an "ATA only" microdrive, and your PDA requires "Compact Flash" emulation mode.
September 13th, 2006, 9:35
OK,
That sounds reasonable; this can explain why the PC reads it and the PDA not; but why does the ipod where it came from report the disk as faulty? The serial number appears scrambled. Should I suspect for a hw problem on the ipod or might it be the drive? Seagate online tools also shows a scrambled number.
I have another very similar ipod which was also failing and a chkdsk /f /x fixed many problems, now the drive has a few bad sectors but the Serial number shows well and the ipod recognizes it well, what can I do with the other drive? Does anyone have some info about firmware for Seagate ST1 drives?
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