Hi Folks,
I have an Amstrad DRX280 PVR3 same as the original poster, operating System Version 1.31B10 and EPG 5.07.u.
I tried to fit a Western Digital WD5000AAKB as suggested in this thread, which co-incidentally I had bought exactly the same model for my PC a few months ago.
I did a full system reset in the hidden menu to format the drive (I intended to use copy+ later to copy the contents if the drive appeared to work ok) and recordings seem to work fine, however I have two problems;
1) The fan runs at full speed all the time when the box is on or recording. It's far to noisy, however I could probably get around this by fitting a resistor in the fan supply.
2) The big problem is that if I switch the box off with the remote, the hard drive does not spin down, and approximately 2 minutes after switching it off it reboots itself and comes on again on channel 998.
Has anyone had problem 2 with this combination ? Basically this makes this drive unusable as it can't be turned off. My guess is that the drive is not responding to the sleep command the box is sending it, causing the OS in the box to crash and reboot
Any ideas ?
Unless I can resolve these issues I would have to recommend that anyone thinking of this model of drive in this version of Sky+ NOT attempt it.