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Maxtor 96147H8, 60gb Not cutting it
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Posted by: fullandby

I have a Maxtor 60GB 5400rpm 96147H8 drive that checks out fine with all of the diagnostics and I have done all the setup steps anybody has recommended but I still get studdering problems with the picture. Had to resort to my origianl 20gb which works great.
I am going to retire it or sell it. I and am willing to try another drive. Any suggestions? I have a Tivo 20 hour unit with 2.01

Posted by: Scott Stevens

You did try the runideturbo=false, right? That would be my only other suggestion.

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Posted by: GBL

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Originally posted by fullandby:
I have a Maxtor 60GB 5400rpm 96147H8 drive that checks out fine with all of the diagnostics and I have done all the setup steps anybody has recommended but I still get studdering problems with the picture. Had to resort to my origianl 20gb which works great.
I am going to retire it or sell it. I and am willing to try another drive. Any suggestions? I have a Tivo 20 hour unit with 2.01

Have you turned off write verification?

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Posted by: hinsdale

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Originally posted by fullandby:
I have a Maxtor 60GB 5400rpm 96147H8 drive that checks out fine with all of the diagnostics and I have done all the setup steps anybody has recommended but I still get studdering problems with the picture. Had to resort to my origianl 20gb which works great.
I am going to retire it or sell it. I and am willing to try another drive. Any suggestions? I have a Tivo 20 hour unit with 2.01

You said you tried all setup steps so am assuming you have done this but:

Turning off write verification using the Maxtor wvset program (this could potentially cause stuttering if left on).

Turn off acoustic management using the amset utility.

You could have just gotten a drive that has a head minutely out of alignment causing longer seek times or some other cause. Sometimes just luck of the draw, doesnt mean all the Maxtor 60gb 5400s should be avoided.

Posted by: Digitalamish

I have two of them running right now (only checked one of them, and the model number was the same). I didn't change any settings to them out of the box (no acoustic management changes, etc). Just cloned my original onto them, run TivoMad's stuff, and viola.

I would guess you may have a bum drive. If you still having the packaging, take it back and try another. Sorry it doesn't help too much.

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