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markcronin · 21-02-07, 05:55 PM

Hi,

I bought myself a Hard Disk for my 7025, reimaged and set away to inilitialise, this was at 7pm last nite, 6pm 2nite still going? Is this rite?

The disk is a 320gb maxtor

Thanks

Mark

nanochickin · 21-02-07, 07:51 PM

That can't be right, My 7020 initialised a new 40gb disk in about 25 seconds.

Something is definately wrong somewhere :?

Davei · 22-02-07, 02:16 PM

No, that doesn't sound right. I have a 7025, and I installed an Hitachi 160Gb drive (about three years old, formally used as a back-up data drive in my PC). The only trouble I had with the drive was having to experiement with jumper settings (to get it to register in the first place, and then to get it to register master rather than slave). Once it was recognised by the 7025, it initialised in less than a minute. I know your drive is larger, but it shouldn't be taking significantly longer to initialise than mine did. The only thing I can suggest is that maybe you need to experiment with the jumper settings too.

SAT-WORLD · 22-02-07, 02:44 PM

Heres the jumper settings for the Maxtor(now Seagate) hard drives(ATA):http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.js...D&locale=en-US
Hope it helps,if it's a jumper issue with the hard drive.

BGonaSTICK · 22-02-07, 11:26 PM

The 320 Gigabyte size is nowhere near large enough to cause the Dreambox problems, so I must agree with the others. It doesn't take very long to format & mount a new partition using the ext2 or ext3 Linux file systems.

Jumper settings seem the most likely culprit.

21-02-07, 05:55 PM	#1 (permalink)
markcronin Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 6 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Installing Hard Disk Hi, I bought myself a Hard Disk for my 7025, reimaged and set away to inilitialise, this was at 7pm last nite, 6pm 2nite still going? Is this rite? The disk is a 320gb maxtor Thanks Mark

21-02-07, 07:51 PM	#2 (permalink)
nanochickin Retired Mod & Sat Guru Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Wolverhampton Posts: 3,825 Thanks: 46 Thanked 338 Times in 270 Posts	Re: Installing Hard Disk That can't be right, My 7020 initialised a new 40gb disk in about 25 seconds. Something is definately wrong somewhere :? __________________ Sanity is nothing more than an excuse to be boring

22-02-07, 02:16 PM	#3 (permalink)
Davei Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 114 Thanks: 9 Thanked 7 Times in 7 Posts	Re: Installing Hard Disk No, that doesn't sound right. I have a 7025, and I installed an Hitachi 160Gb drive (about three years old, formally used as a back-up data drive in my PC). The only trouble I had with the drive was having to experiement with jumper settings (to get it to register in the first place, and then to get it to register master rather than slave). Once it was recognised by the 7025, it initialised in less than a minute. I know your drive is larger, but it shouldn't be taking significantly longer to initialise than mine did. The only thing I can suggest is that maybe you need to experiment with the jumper settings too.

22-02-07, 02:44 PM	#4 (permalink)
SAT-WORLD Senior Member Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 3,664 Thanks: 19 Thanked 246 Times in 215 Posts	Re: Installing Hard Disk Heres the jumper settings for the Maxtor(now Seagate) hard drives(ATA):http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.js...D&locale=en-US Hope it helps,if it's a jumper issue with the hard drive.

22-02-07, 11:26 PM	#5 (permalink)
BGonaSTICK Dodgy Geezer Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Brighton Posts: 9,718 Thanks: 3 Thanked 166 Times in 60 Posts	Re: Installing Hard Disk The 320 Gigabyte size is nowhere near large enough to cause the Dreambox problems, so I must agree with the others. It doesn't take very long to format & mount a new partition using the ext2 or ext3 Linux file systems. Jumper settings seem the most likely culprit. __________________ Dreambox 7000, Skystar2 PCI, Skystar USB, Fibo 90cm on Moteck SG2100, Triax TD110 multi-LNB. Sky + ART cards. 45.0°E - 58.0°W