GT - Sat Nav stuck on Maserati logo when it's cold

[Moz1000]

Flee bay has quite a few for not much money at that size, eg:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Toshiba-M...682227?hash=item5d67a2d173:g:PxAAAOSwMtxXsHvs

Seems to be a lot of 40GB being sold by this seller - but perhaps you want to try the native size first:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/40GB-2-5-...689734?hash=item464387e346:g:6d4AAOSwI-BWL4dP

Dave

 

[rockits]

I have a 40gb in the office you can try if you like.

 

[CatmanV2]

I have a 40gb in the office you can try if you like.

And if you don't buy one and I'll pay.

C

 

[FerrersWay]

I have a 40gb in the office you can try if you like.

I've just ordered a 64GB IDE SSD, if that doesn't work when it arrives I might take you up on that. I figure an SSD is going to be much better from a heat/cold/moisture/shock point of view than a normal spinning hard drive is.

I run a bit of an experiment yesterday, cooled the drive down to about 11C and stuck it in the USB adapter. Disk did no spin up at all. Waited about 10 minutes for it to heat up to room temperature and tried again. Spun up perfectly.

Put everything back together again and put it back in the car, booted up with no problem and everything works, so at least I didn't mess up whilst poking around for dry solder joints (found no suspicious ones)

 

[murph7355]

Sounds like the HDD is definitely the problem then. Be interesting to see what the SSD does.

Did you have music on the system too? Will you be able to compare copy and play times etc? Even if subjectively.

 

[CatmanV2]

Sounds like the HDD is definitely the problem then. Be interesting to see what the SSD does.

Did you have music on the system too? Will you be able to compare copy and play times etc? Even if subjectively.

I'm doubting there will be any improvement. The rate limiter must surely be the encoding step, not the HDD write speed

C

 

[drewf]

I'm doubting there will be any improvement. The rate limiter must surely be the encoding step, not the HDD write speed

C

Yep. It's not exactly a state of the art CPU in there. Why it's such an antiquated piece of chippery is beyond me - many generations behind even when the GT was launched.

 

[rossyl]

I've just ordered a 64GB IDE SSD, if that doesn't work when it arrives I might take you up on that. I figure an SSD is going to be much better from a heat/cold/moisture/shock point of view than a normal spinning hard drive is.

I run a bit of an experiment yesterday, cooled the drive down to about 11C and stuck it in the USB adapter. Disk did no spin up at all. Waited about 10 minutes for it to heat up to room temperature and tried again. Spun up perfectly.

Put everything back together again and put it back in the car, booted up with no problem and everything works, so at least I didn't mess up whilst poking around for dry solder joints (found no suspicious ones)

I'm doubting there will be any improvement. The rate limiter must surely be the encoding step, not the HDD write speed

C

Forget about read/write speeds - this is potentially excellent news. If this has fixed the problem, then it is a brilliant result. The first response to this thread was that it was a £4k fix!

Fingers crossed it all works

 

[CatmanV2]

Yep. It's not exactly a state of the art CPU in there. Why it's such an antiquated piece of chippery is beyond me - many generations behind even when the GT was launched.

What is it? I can't recall seeing the specs

C

 

[CatmanV2]

Forget about read/write speeds - this is potentially excellent news. If this has fixed the problem, then it is a brilliant result. The first response to this thread was that it was a £4k fix!

Fingers crossed it all works

I's way better than that! It's only a matter of time until the drives start failing more regularly!

C

 

[drewf]

What is it? I can't recall seeing the specs

C

It's a Motorola MPC5200. 32-bit, industrial type CPU.

 

[CatmanV2]

It's a Motorola MPC5200. 32-bit, industrial type CPU.

Oh right, yes. Definitely a bit old and past it

C

 

[murph7355]

I'm doubting there will be any improvement. The rate limiter must surely be the encoding step, not the HDD write speed

C

When copying over already encoded files I don't believe it will be doing any encoding itself. The system also seems slow to get track lists and move between lists etc.

Might be other system bottlenecks causing it, but the disk drive noted is slow as you like which probably won't be helping.

Anyway, having a general fix would be useful...but only if a generic disk image worked across cars/models or you have a good disk image of your own system. Certainly better than paying 4k to replace it

 

[CatmanV2]

Anyway, having a general fix would be useful...but only if a generic disk image worked across cars/models or you have a good disk image of your own system. Certainly better than paying 4k to replace it

In spades

C

 

[Contigo]

It copies first then compresses, the longest part is the copy so yes if it were SSD it would copy a CD much quicker and also speed up the compression part. An interesting thread indeed!

 

[Contigo]

It also means we can have our own forum logo on the car too

 

[spkennyuk]

It also means we can have our own forum logo on the car too

Or a picture of your own car or even one of Matts picture of the day if you prefer.

 

[drewf]

It copies first then compresses, the longest part is the copy so yes if it were SSD it would copy a CD much quicker and also speed up the compression part. An interesting thread indeed!

That's assuming the HDD is slower than the CD drive. Bet it isn't by a long way.

 

[CatmanV2]

That's assuming the HDD is slower than the CD drive. Bet it isn't by a long way.

Aye

C

 

[AaronE]

this is totally awesome. I'm very intrigued to start hacking... time to bust out my old Motorola ASM chops...
any way you can post/attach an "ls -la" output for the 4 partitions?