Recent content by John A

Good idea. According to the Seagate manual, the only jumper is for speed negotiation and it does say add a jumper if the drive is not detected. I have done this which reduces the SATA speed from 3Gbps to 1.5 Ggps but sadly it's still not working. Interestingly when I connect the drive to the...

Yes I have. It just hangs for an hour and I have to switch off the Humax. I have also loaded the custom firmware and ran fix-disk which reports 'unable to find a disk' as below: Please select option: 1 Any additional options (or press return for none): Are you sure you wish to run the hard disk...

I have replaced my failing Seagate pipeline HD 2 500GB disk with another identical disk running the same firmware SC13 on the disk controller. However the second disk is not visible to the humax firmware/kernel. humax# fdisk -l humax# fdisk /dev/sda fdisk: can't open '/dev/sda' humax# Both...