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HDR 1000S Hard drive or Resistor

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    Both new and old have ST3500312CS

    New drive. P/N 9GW132-012
    Firmware SC13 Date code 12222

    Old drive. P/N 9GW132-510
    Firmware SC41 Date code15105

    | Mon 10 Aug 2020 18:09:53 #21 |
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    brano77 - 1 hour ago  » 
    Both new and old have ST3500312CS
    New drive. P/N 9GW132-012

    An 9GW132-012 will have been produced for a Sky box and is locked at 1.5Gb/s (SATA I). Your original drive will have been SATA II 3.0Gb/s. It is known that SATA I drives will not work in various Humax models and I am guessing we can add HDR 1000 to the list.

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    Thanks for the reply. That is annoying. This is the link to where I sourced the replacement http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B002CMOH26/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Clearly indicates Sata 3.0 Gb/s or am I missing something?

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    brano77 - 13 hours ago  » 
    Thanks for the reply. That is annoying. This is the link to where I sourced the replacement http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B002CMOH26/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Clearly indicates Sata 3.0 Gb/s or am I missing something?

    My understanding is that the design of the ST3500312CS is capable of 3.0 Gb/s but for some reason drives intended for Sky boxes were set to 1.5 Gb/s and no one has found a way of changing that. Contact the seller and discuss it with them, maybe not all the drives they have are from old Sky boxes.

    | Tue 11 Aug 2020 9:34:38 #24 |
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    Thanks for the replies. Re power supply adaptor for USB/SATA cable (Trev) is 2.0 A absolutely necessary and as the adapter I used was 12v 200mA is this why the drives are not being recognised on my desktop? I can hear a ticking sound bit certainly no gyroscopic effect when holding the drives.

    Martin - thanks I will contact the seller. However, even if the new drive I have is limited to 1.5Gb/s would I not still see it as storage on my desktop with the USB/SATA connector unless 12v/2.0A is a must.

    TH problem remains that unless I can 100% identify that the old (and new) hard drives are OK I cannot be sure that the original problem is attributed to the "resistor" or other mother board issues and declare my 1000s only suitable as a receiver.

    | Tue 11 Aug 2020 12:16:54 #25 |
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    Update. Found a 12v/1.0A adaptor which results in old drive being visible on desktop together with all the files. So I can only conclude the problem is not the hard drive but the main board - is that a fair assumption??

    Next to wait for the Arris HDR!!

    | Tue 11 Aug 2020 18:34:42 #26 |
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    Think you are probably correct, however I would have not expected the 1%, but the fit a hard drive.
    I surmise that the resistor was out of spec but sill failing.

    What is your r=take on the arris, wait and see?

    | Tue 11 Aug 2020 19:39:48 #27 |
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    i've been watching this topic. and having the same problem with my HDR 1000S.When the HDD was taken out to test it did not show when hooked up to the pc. But when i looked in disk management it was there. and it was showing no bad sectors . so i've stripped it down to the motherboard. by the way everything else works ok , the disk does spin up, just not reading. still can be used to watch all channels. i'm considering taking the caps out to test, although none of them are blown .Does anybody know a link for the schematic?

    | Thu 13 Aug 2020 11:35:05 #28 |
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    The symptom of the failed resistor shows as not seeing the hard disk. Before this stage other results can be seen. However there is an intermittent software bug that shows as no recordings, which again appear after a restart or power cycle.

    I don't believe that any of the board versions schematics have been ever made public.

    | Thu 13 Aug 2020 15:26:03 #29 |
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    redfox123 - 4 hours ago  » 
    by the way everything else works ok , the disk does spin up, just not reading. still can be used to watch all channels. i'm considering taking the caps out to test, although none of them are blown .

    Have you considered the option of getting it repaired see https://www.digirepairs.co.uk/product/repair-booking-humax-freesat-plus-freeview-plus-youview-plus-box-repairs-2/
    If you went this route you could discreetly mark components and hopefully discover what has been changed.

    | Thu 13 Aug 2020 16:12:00 #30 |

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