Recent content by Russel Winder

Responding to the "on another note" from the original posting: I got a HDR2000T instead of repairing my "dead" HDR-FOX-T2. It works. I shall however now be repairing the HDR-FOX-T2. The single biggest reason: the HDR2000T has no display of any sort on the box itself.

There are no /sys/block/sda? files so fix-disk has nothing to run on and just terminates. On powering up the current HDD just fails to connect to the rest of the system. Classic controller failure seemingly. Hummm… maybe I'll do the HDD replacement and see about having a second machine by...

Our HDR-Fox-T2 has been exhibiting HDD problems (I suspect bad blocks) for a while and then refused to do anything other than be reformatted. Which seemed to work for a few days, but today it seems the disc controller has given up the ghost as there is no media and no data storage entry on the...