Dear HDD experts,
I am about to give it up - maybe you have a hint or at least an explanation for my problem.
The background story is: The HDD in my Panasonic DMR-EH52 PVR died a few days ago. The controller does still work but the mechanics are making weird noises and the PVR cannot access the data anymore. So I opened the device and found a 3,5" Sasmung Spinpoint HDD with 5400 rpm - a SV0802N built in 2005. with 80 GB capacity. I have a couple of old IDE HDDs and I tried each of them. But the PVR does not accept any of them and it always shows "HDD NG" (I think "not genuine") except one: An old Hitachi Deskstar 40 GB 7200 rpm, built in 2003.
The Hitachi can't be used properly, maybe because of not enough capacity but I can use the PVR at least in DVD mode. With the other HDDs: Not a chance.
That's why I ordered a new SV0802N (unfortunately built in 2003 and bought on eBay France) and: The Panasonic does not accept my replacement one! So I started some research and found out, that the original HDD and the Hitachi one (as far as I remember it was installed in a large laser printer) both have PUIS enabled (hdparm in Linux does say "powers-up in standby; SET FEATURES subcmd spins-up." and my other ones don't have this.
Now I assume that the PVR just checks if a PUIS-enabled HDD is installed.
Now the big question is: How can I enable PUIS on my new Samsung SV0802N or on one of other HDDs lying here waiting for use (Western Digital, Seagate, Maxtor)?
With jumpering I wasn't successful. They have to set to Cable Select and that's all I can configure on my IDE HDDs.
I already did the following:
Do I have the chance to get PUIS working on one of them? Maybe with secret jumper settings or with the MHDD tool and a script?
Many many thanks in advance from Germany,
Nico
I am about to give it up - maybe you have a hint or at least an explanation for my problem.
The background story is: The HDD in my Panasonic DMR-EH52 PVR died a few days ago. The controller does still work but the mechanics are making weird noises and the PVR cannot access the data anymore. So I opened the device and found a 3,5" Sasmung Spinpoint HDD with 5400 rpm - a SV0802N built in 2005. with 80 GB capacity. I have a couple of old IDE HDDs and I tried each of them. But the PVR does not accept any of them and it always shows "HDD NG" (I think "not genuine") except one: An old Hitachi Deskstar 40 GB 7200 rpm, built in 2003.
The Hitachi can't be used properly, maybe because of not enough capacity but I can use the PVR at least in DVD mode. With the other HDDs: Not a chance.
That's why I ordered a new SV0802N (unfortunately built in 2003 and bought on eBay France) and: The Panasonic does not accept my replacement one! So I started some research and found out, that the original HDD and the Hitachi one (as far as I remember it was installed in a large laser printer) both have PUIS enabled (hdparm in Linux does say "powers-up in standby; SET FEATURES subcmd spins-up." and my other ones don't have this.
Now I assume that the PVR just checks if a PUIS-enabled HDD is installed.
Now the big question is: How can I enable PUIS on my new Samsung SV0802N or on one of other HDDs lying here waiting for use (Western Digital, Seagate, Maxtor)?
With jumpering I wasn't successful. They have to set to Cable Select and that's all I can configure on my IDE HDDs.
I already did the following:
■ Swapped the controller of the Samsung HDDs (not a success, maybe because of different production lines)
■ Used hdparm with the command hdparm -s1 --yes-i-know-what-i-am-doing /dev/sdc with the results HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(powerup_in_standby) failed: Invalid argument (IDE-to-USB-adapter + Debian VM) and HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(powerup_in_standby) failed: Input/output error (native IDE PC + Debian on system HDD)
■ Tried to enable it in HDAT2 boot cd: There were no available parameters I need on several HDDs
Do I have the chance to get PUIS working on one of them? Maybe with secret jumper settings or with the MHDD tool and a script?
Many many thanks in advance from Germany,
Nico
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