It’s good to be a geek
So the hard disk in my Humax PVR died 
Fortunately, just replacing it with another one fixed it - it recognised the new disk, asked me to format it, job done.
The fact that I’ve shuffled a few disks around my systems to accomplish this in the best manner (\o/ for RAID-1) is by-the-by 
Shame the disk is a fair bit noisier than the old disk. I wonder if I should have poked it with appropriate ATA commands and set “keep settings”? Probably wouldn’t have made much difference I suspect.
Update: The old disk was a seagate DB35.2 and does have a few tricks up its sleave - OTOH most disks I buy with those features (namely FDB - fluid dynamic bearings - quieter) - it does mention different firmware, though hopefully that’s just performance/quiet tuning.
Posted: November 23rd, 2008 under Life.
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