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  1. I'm back from vacation and caught up on most of my other work and can mess with this some if anybody has something they want me to try. To the new names on the board, I'm the one with the only known Z1 that allows larger/different drives to be installed. Now the bad news. I got pissed at my corvette, or more specifically, GM for what they are doing to the pricing (dealers are offering $6500 off a new fully loaded 2007 - assholes), so when a dealer made me an offer higher than I could go buy the same model used from the autotrader I jumped at it. I felt like I was dumping a losing s
  2. Ok, you can now welcome me to the crashing Z1 club. NO, not the drives I have made but the one Ducati sent back to me with his stuff on it. Here is what it does/did: 5 min trip to store no problems 10-15 min drive to work and it thumped my speakers, the screen went black then the unit restarted. I was on FM radio at the time and it didn't miss a beat confirming the radio tuner is a seperate system. Next 10-15 min trip for lunch and the NAV display locked up. Radio was still playing and I could adjust volume but do nothing else. I pulled out the "Ducati" and inserted the "Pu
  3. [quote name="03Aviator"]Damn good questions Pulp. By the way, I saw your name pop up on an Acura site with a post from last year. I think you were interested in hacking their system if I recall![/quote] Sure was but I got rid of the car instead. LOL.
  4. Perhaps its as simple as the add on's connected to the unit. Of those that have tried a larger HDD and experienced a crash do any of you have the same setup I do. My config is very bare: Z1 XM with nav traffic - both activated. no bluetooth no Ipod nothing else at this time. no external amps, nada. Survey says? Post what you do have installed. If anybody with only a Z1 and nothing else has had a drive failure I will try unhooking my nav traffic to see what happens. Perhaps the unique data transfer type of the nav traffic is forcing the unit to be more agre
  5. [quote name="berniec"] [quote name="Hyperite"]Yeah, currently it doesn't rip in MP3, and there's no way to change the quality in which it DOES rip.[/quote] althought I'm not 100% sure if this is the case or not, my suspicion would be that pioneer didnt want to license an MP3 encoder, thats probably the only reason it is the way it is. that being said, if somebody is workin on getting it to play something else, they should be trying to get it to enc/dec AAC rather then MP3. Thats what itunes uses and the quality is much better then MP3.[/quote] The first goal is to get it to play m
  6. I'm waiting for some smart ass to "demand" I find a way to prove what I have works. Showing off will be when I get something NEW to work on this thing.
  7. [quote name="George01v6"]Now with you guys hacking the HDD, is there any way to up the kbps of the MP3s it saves to the hard drive? I hear when you rip songs the compression makes the sound quality kind of suck. Any luck with that? George[/quote] Once we get the unit to play MP3's we should be able to do whatever we want quality wise.
  8. Been working on the day job quite a bit lately and I'm playing catch up. Gracenote update sounds interesting. I want to get and "look" but not install it. Once I get the drive back I can post if it works in my Z1 with Ducati's files.
  9. [quote name="ducatiboy"]It's a Fujitsu MHV2080AH (80 gig drive). I don't have partition sizes or anything, it's what ever pulp sent to me.[/quote] I didn't write down what I created this drive with partition wise but I do know that I've tried several different combinations. I even let Ghost increase the sizes on its own once and all of them have worked for me.
  10. [quote name="SemoTech"]My bad, reading in order of activity and did not get the FAQ you made till after replying to this. Questions: 1. Have you tried to enlarge the MSV FAT32 Partition beyond the 32GB limit? Did it work? 2. Is it possible that the reason Ducatiboy's HD is crashing is due to the way locking and unlocking is handled? I've seen a lot of drives that do not support locking features causing some grief. While I see that you recomend disabling the security features, maybe it is worth a shot not to and let the Z1 happily lock and unlock the drive... 3. How large is
  11. [quote name="03Aviator"]I really think it's just some process or hard part you are using that is working Pulp...not the Z1. I think this is provable by trying your drive in another Z1. Maybe you could set up another drive just EXACTLY like yours and ship it to Ducatiboy and see how it works. If it works in yours, and not his...then we have problems.[/quote] You are SOOOO funny or psychic. I did exactly that already with no luck. Ran a drive in my Z1 for a weekend with no problems. Sent it to Ducati. He tried it for 5-15 min. and it crashed.
  12. [quote name="ducatiboy"]We already tried changing the password to something we knew and relocking the drive, when the drive was put back into the Z1, the hard drive password was changed to what the Z1 wanted and was re-locked. The master and user passwords are overwritten every time the drive is re-inserted (or maybe every time it's powered up). And one guy has unlocked a drive and disabled unlocking (at least on the stock drive) and the new non-lockabe drives worked fine (at least in one Z1). So it's not a locking issue (at least as far as we know).[/quote] I've been running the rep
  13. [quote name="SemoTech"] [quote name="z1fan"]has anybody tried inserting a blank and newly formatted hdd? The slash memory may be able to write new partitions[/quote] Doubtfull if this will work. I bet the Z1 looks for specific data/partitions to be present on the HD before it asumes it is a valid drive. Also, "formatting" is not a good idea as we do not know exactly what the format is. If anyone wants to do a test they can low-level format (zero out) a drive and try it but again, I seriousely doubt this will work. We need to unlock the drive, copy the data/partitions to an image file
  14. [quote name="Anonymous"] [quote name="Pulp_Fiction"]Processor: It is about 1 and 1/4" square. No brand name on the processor but the following writing: R8A73820A HA01BGV might be HA01BCV BB09165 0609 JAPAN I'm betting one of these is a serial number. Google was unable to help with these numbers. I don't know if Samsung makes processors but most of the chips are samsung's. Large pics at these links. 1-2 meg each. Check out all the crazy writing on the top of my DVD drive. Looks like it went through a lot of hands or something. [url]http://www.bigfloppydonkeyballs.com
  15. [quote name="03Aviator"]So if I understand you correctly Pulp, what you are saying is...if the power source you are considering using for the ILL on your Z! dims with your dimmer, you CANNOT use that because the circuit is ground modulated. You therefore have to find a light source to use that comes on with the lights, but does not dim with the dimmer control. Does that sound right?[/quote] Although Ducati is correct in answering your question let me clarify what I was trying to get across. In my 06 vette most of the dash lights have +12v at all times and the way the lighting is ac
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