Posted by: Janosch
Harddrive Warranty ? - 01/08/2001 04:40
Hi all,
some time ago my empeg started, "stuttering" sometimes. Sounds like the Data could not be read fast enough. This happend only in rare cases, about one time every second day. Pulling the Unit out und in again fixed the Problem in most cases. I didn't bothered. Last Week the bootup started to take more time then usual and the "stuttering" becomes worse. My guess was a bad Harddrive. I turned on the Harddrive Icon and yes. Stuttering only happens during Disk access. Because i already upgraded the Unit with a second harddisk two month ago (and definatly lost my warranty) i changed the primary IBM 6 GB Harddisk (witch is the one that was build in from beginning) against a Toshiba 6.4 GB Harddrive. Everything is fine now. (moving the fids from /drive0 to /drive1 worked without any flaws). Bootup is as fast as is was never before and many other things are working much better right now. For example skipping to the next songs again and again uses to cause 5-10 second delays after some skips. All those "nags" are completely gone for now and i started to love my unit as twice as much :)
So, of course my warranty is lost and if the guys at empeg just say "Sorry" this really ok. I just want to ask what to do with the "sometimes bad" harddrive. I did many runs of the "IBM Drive Fitness Test". Some reported Problems, some not. Is there any chance to get a new one directly from IBM or empeg ? My Player is about seven months old. I studied two years eletronics in Germany and at work i'm building computers for five years now. I'm very shure that nothing got broken during my upgrade with the second Harddrive. I just want to know what is making sense, put the disk directly to trash (formely known as /dev/null *ggg*) or send it to IBM or Empeg ?
Best regards Janosch
some time ago my empeg started, "stuttering" sometimes. Sounds like the Data could not be read fast enough. This happend only in rare cases, about one time every second day. Pulling the Unit out und in again fixed the Problem in most cases. I didn't bothered. Last Week the bootup started to take more time then usual and the "stuttering" becomes worse. My guess was a bad Harddrive. I turned on the Harddrive Icon and yes. Stuttering only happens during Disk access. Because i already upgraded the Unit with a second harddisk two month ago (and definatly lost my warranty) i changed the primary IBM 6 GB Harddisk (witch is the one that was build in from beginning) against a Toshiba 6.4 GB Harddrive. Everything is fine now. (moving the fids from /drive0 to /drive1 worked without any flaws). Bootup is as fast as is was never before and many other things are working much better right now. For example skipping to the next songs again and again uses to cause 5-10 second delays after some skips. All those "nags" are completely gone for now and i started to love my unit as twice as much :)
So, of course my warranty is lost and if the guys at empeg just say "Sorry" this really ok. I just want to ask what to do with the "sometimes bad" harddrive. I did many runs of the "IBM Drive Fitness Test". Some reported Problems, some not. Is there any chance to get a new one directly from IBM or empeg ? My Player is about seven months old. I studied two years eletronics in Germany and at work i'm building computers for five years now. I'm very shure that nothing got broken during my upgrade with the second Harddrive. I just want to know what is making sense, put the disk directly to trash (formely known as /dev/null *ggg*) or send it to IBM or Empeg ?
Best regards Janosch
