Hitachi 160 GB drive refuses to boot. Ideas?

[notyoung]

A Seagate drive I installed in a 5504 last fall seems to have passed away. It keeps freezing and locking up.
I tightened all of the screws on the motherboard and power supply board and I am trying to install a brand new Hitachi 160 GB (Best Buy $60 after instant rebate).
I imaged and patched the new drive using a USB enclosure and the
RTV_5K_FactoryReset_140.rtv file. This did not work, I get stuck at the please wait screen. Incidentally this is the same method I used to get the Seagate drive working.
I gave up on the USB enclosure and now attached the Hitachi to an old desktop running Windows 98. Using the the linux bootable cd version of rtvpatch I copied the system files from the original (and working) 40 gig drive that came with the Replay on to the Hitachi. I also ran the patch.
This isn't working either, I keep getting stuck at the please wait screen. I unplugged all of the inputs and the ethernet cable. The jumper settings on this drive are extremely confusing, with a chart of 16 different options displayed on the back of the drive. I tried all of the master and cable select options as well as some of the others, but nothing works.
I stuck. Any ideas of what I can do next?

[choli0090]

I also purchased one of these drives & also couldn't get it to boot in a replay, so I just put it into one of my pc's I am also curious if someone has gotten one of these drives to work.

[notyoung]

What did you get as a replacement?

[icecow]

Please post the exact model number of the ones that didn't work. Also the cache size and speed.

Both of you if possible. They might not even be the same model number.

[notyoung]

Hitachi Deskstar (7K250 ?)
HDT722516DLAT80 164GB
8mB buffer
7200 rpm

[choli0090]

Ok my mistake, I was using an 80 gb drive. The model # is HDS72808.

[notyoung]

Update:

The problem was definitely the Hitachi Drive and not my upgrade procedure. I purchased a Western Digital 250 GB Cavier and performed the imaging with a USB enclosure. Put it in the Replay and it works beautifully. :D

Stay away from those Hitachi's

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[QUOTE=notyoung]
Stay away from those Hitachi's[/QUOTE]
...and those Hibachi's - ReplayTV's don't do too well with them either...

(not to mention the fact that they tend to leave a mark...)

[davester2]

I have a Hitachi in mine and it works great...can't remember whether it is the 160 or 200 gb.

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You're not the only one either. There were others who have posted that older Hitachi's (older, as in what was sale 6-12 months ago) worked fine and apparently could be made dead-silent by turning up the AAM. Those same drives weren't recognized by 4k's though. I've got an IBM/Hitachi 7200rpm/2mb/80Gb (IC35L080AVVA07) that had worked fine in both my 2k and a 5k, but when I tried to use it to upgrade a 4040: no habla, senior Duck.

Samsung's, on the other hand - worked in 2k's, 3k's and 4k's, but not 5k's for the longest time (darn shame too, those were great drives). Then one day I saw someone post that they had gone out and bougt a Samsung for their 5k before "they knew that it wouldn't be compatable", but decided to try it in their 5k anyway - it worked fine, just as good as any Maxtor back then could have.

Look at Maxtor. The old stand-by: "if it's a Maxtor, it's RTV compatable". One word: Bullshyt. Would all those RTV owners that have bought 16Mb cache Maxtors for their RTV's but ended up having to install them in their DVA servers instead, please raise your hands (or dorsal fin, whichever is easier...)

Any company can turnout a new model/series of RTV-incompatable drives one day and a compatable one the next. It's not the drives; it's the RTV's. They're appliances, not computers, sacrifices had to be made to achieve the desired end result.

[notyoung]

I think we need a need a sticky thread will all of the drives that either work or don't work. I wasted 8 hours of my life thinking I was doing something wrong, when it was actually the drive that was no good for use in a Replay.

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I think l8er has something to that effect at www.replaytvupgrade.com

[icecow]

honestly, I asked for the model numbers on the assumption that l8er might make use of the ez-info.

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Whatever l8er has up on his website would have most likely have been older information, since there haven't been any "Hitachi / RTV incompatability" threads in a long time - I should have mentioned that in my earlier post.