Andy's Techie Stuff

Geert Jan · Joined: 21 Jan 2005 Posts: 10 Location: The Netherlands

Hello All,

I've got the USB Debug unit up and running.....(I'll post some pictures)
Found out that some of the Decoders firmware is located on the harddisk,
not only the encoder firmware.....

At this moment I'm able to the following job :
- detect flash make,type,model,etc....
- read flash memory,
- read sdram memory
- possible internal registers
(at this moment i'm very carefull no to destroy the beast).

When all test are okay I'll try to modify the firmware to use a fresh
Maxtor 160GB harddisk (DiamondMax17,6G160P0).

will post some more.....

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Geert Jan · Joined: 21 Jan 2005 Posts: 10 Location: The Netherlands

I've uploaded the pictures and the firmware of the HDS1 (40GB model).

w.r.

G.J.

Andy Cippico · Site Admin Joined: 18 Jan 2005 Posts: 80 Location: England

Geert Jan,

You have the brain the size of a planet. I can't believe you've got so far with the old girl. Well done!

Tell you what, can you make it work with a 500GB drive? That way, when I come to sell mine on eBay, it will make more than the lousy sum I'm likely to get with just a 40GB drive in there!

Keep up the excellent work,
Andy.

tede · Joined: 06 Feb 2010 Posts: 1

Hallo, HDS Experts

With help of these Web-sites i can change the damaged Harddisk of my old HDS1 player without problems.

Big Thanks to Andy an all other aktives on this Place

My question is: is there a way to read out the MPG2 Files stored on the Harddisk to an PC ??

Only for nosy: what is the Function of th pice of Messing at thr right side of the Harddisk ?

regards
Thomas Dauner