I am well fedup and it's my first post to this forum! A winge first...
I bought 2 Seagate ST3500630A HDD costing about £50 a pop to fit into my Pace 3100 and my Amstrad DRX180.
I also went to the expense of buying a USB2 to IDE cable (£10) to use enable my use of Copy+ software.
Not only that I ended up paying £10 for a new IDE cable for the Pace box as I broke it when trying to get it off the old HDD! DOh!
The result...
Amstrad is intermittent - restarts itself over night, but does seem to work!
Pace is not working at all.
Details are as follows for Pace:
Manufacturer: Pace
Model Number: 6.001
Version Number: 9F2105
Operating System Version: 1.31B06
EPG Software Version: 5.04.d
The problem is as follows:
Afer replacement of drive (with auto-rewind off) I have done a full restore (both ways) and the box frezzes up when resording.
I record BBC1, then go to BBC2 and record this channel. The hHDD starts to get active a little more. Then if I live rewind a channel that I am recording, it is about 2 mins. before the box locks up, still in rewind mode, and I have to power off at the plug.
I have tried almost every alternative way suggestwed on various forums etc. I have tried using Copy+ to set the drive at 250 gig and the same situation occurs.
When I replace tihe original HDD everything is back to normal.
Lots of money spend, lots of time spent, lots of people saying that this drive is fine, and that 500 gig drives should be compatible with the new software, lots of people saying Copy+ will sort out my problems, but still no joy!
Help!!!