HDD spinning up too slow?

[EvoluterX]

Okay, so it's been a long time since I last came here. In the meantime, I got some more Xboxes - two 1.0 (PAL since I'm in Romania) and a crystal 1.4 with ST TSOP and Phillips v2 drive.

I also got some drives for each, so I can have them all modded (one of the 1.0 will stay softmodded, I accidentally broke the TSOP points because of my too powerful iron ) - two 80GB drives (a WD800BB and a Seagate) and a 160GB IDE HDD out of a DVR for the crystal. (Seagate ST3160215ACE, also known as DB35.3).

Now here's a problem I didn't encounter with other drives but with the 160GB mentioned above alone: whenever I boot up the crystal (uses iND-BIOS 5004), it will do one of the following things:

1.Show up the "loading iND-BIOS" screen and flash the ring green for a while until it FRAGS on the same screen
2.Same as 1, except it will show E09: HDD PARAMETER ERROR (I set the drive to master)
3.In rare occasions, it will go to a blank screen after doing 1 without FRAG, and pressing the EJECT button will start up the flubber sequence.

Any ideas what can I do? My other 1.0 that I TSOP'd (the one with the 80GB Seagate) doesn't do this. (although that one was flashed with EvoX M8+)

[professor_jonny]

error 9 is not a very common error I would try to replace the dvd drive ide cable from the other box and test it see if it has the same faults.

you could also swap the hdd's over ?

[EvoluterX]

I tried that to no avail. It will still do the same. Maybe the HDD has a slow initialization sequence that causes this?

I know some SATA Western Digital HDDs have a slow spinup sequence and would require some stuff to be done to the boot sequence (DVD,HDD etc.) in order to avoid FRAG.

[Rocky5]

I get it from time to time when testing Chimp 261812 taking the IDE out of the DVD drive and putting it back in usually fixes the issue or the HDD.

[EvoluterX]

HDD wasn't made with Chimp though.
I built the base drive with AID 4.53 then FTP'd the most recent backup I had over.

[Rocky5]

HDD wasn't made with Chimp though.
I built the base drive with AID 4.53 then FTP'd the most recent backup I had over.

And your point is?

Chimp has nothing to do with it, taking the IDE cable in and out is what causes it for me.
( Chimp is just the reason I took the IDE cable out )

[EvoluterX]

HDD wasn't made with Chimp though.
I built the base drive with AID 4.53 then FTP'd the most recent backup I had over.

And your point is?

Chimp has nothing to do with it, taking the IDE cable in and out is what causes it for me.
( Chimp is just the reason I took the IDE cable out )

I tried replacing the IDE cable as well, to no avail.

[immune]

Just try and flash another bios. Use M8+ or Xecuter 2 instead. I just had an 1.2 Box that showed a quite similar behavior using ind 5004. The ind loading screen always showed up but most off the time the box didnt boot up anyway started flashing after a while. After turning on and off a couple of times it probably boot up. Then i used the latest hexen disc and flashed M8+ and now it works great. Anyway i had a couple of boxes previously flashed with ind 5004 before that didnt showed this behavior

[EvoluterX]

M8 does work with this HDD, but then I lose the custom flubber animation that iND-BIOS uses.

Anything I could do to make iND-BIOS wait for the drive to initialize?