Drive not spinning. please help!
August 16th, 2014, 18:48
2 TB drive from Dish Network Hopper satalite dvr box
Help me please!
I've liborated a 2tb hard drive from a hopper box. The drive will not spin unless connected to the SATA connection on the hopper box. So I tinkered a bit and figured out that if I connect the drive to the hopper letting it boot up and then for next to SATA on my computer I can then read the drive in windows. This tells me (maybe?) There is something doing on with the firmware/ROM of the drive that prevents it from spinning when connected to anything other than a Hopper. This method works fine for reading and writting to the drive, but if I reboot the computer I cant see it in Windows unless I connect it to the hopper box again.
My question to you fine people is, is there a piece of software that will allow me to flash the Firmware so allow it to work as a normal hard drive? Also, am I right in my assumption that the firmware/ROM is the issue here?
BTW the drive in question is a Seagate Pipeline Hd ST2000VM002
Help me please!
I've liborated a 2tb hard drive from a hopper box. The drive will not spin unless connected to the SATA connection on the hopper box. So I tinkered a bit and figured out that if I connect the drive to the hopper letting it boot up and then for next to SATA on my computer I can then read the drive in windows. This tells me (maybe?) There is something doing on with the firmware/ROM of the drive that prevents it from spinning when connected to anything other than a Hopper. This method works fine for reading and writting to the drive, but if I reboot the computer I cant see it in Windows unless I connect it to the hopper box again.
My question to you fine people is, is there a piece of software that will allow me to flash the Firmware so allow it to work as a normal hard drive? Also, am I right in my assumption that the firmware/ROM is the issue here?
BTW the drive in question is a Seagate Pipeline Hd ST2000VM002
Re: Drive not spinning. please help!
August 16th, 2014, 19:17
It appears that the HDD is configured to Power Up In Standby (PUIS). If so, you could use HDAT2 (http://www.hdat2.com) to disable PUIS.
You will need to launch HDAT2 with the "/w" switch to wake up the drive, ie ...
You will need to launch HDAT2 with the "/w" switch to wake up the drive, ie ...
- HDAT2 /w
Re: Drive not spinning. please help!
August 18th, 2014, 8:01
baypag wrote:2 TB drive from Dish Network Hopper satalite dvr box
Help me please!
I've liborated a 2tb hard drive from a hopper box. The drive will not spin unless connected to the SATA connection on the hopper box. So I tinkered a bit and figured out that if I connect the drive to the hopper letting it boot up and then for next to SATA on my computer I can then read the drive in windows. This tells me (maybe?) There is something doing on with the firmware/ROM of the drive that prevents it from spinning when connected to anything other than a Hopper. This method works fine for reading and writting to the drive, but if I reboot the computer I cant see it in Windows unless I connect it to the hopper box again.
My question to you fine people is, is there a piece of software that will allow me to flash the Firmware so allow it to work as a normal hard drive? Also, am I right in my assumption that the firmware/ROM is the issue here?
BTW the drive in question is a Seagate Pipeline Hd ST2000VM002
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