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    Well the 500 GB Western Digital IDE drives were actually 16 MB cache, not 32 but it didn't matter. Despite numerous changes to how I had them installed (1 drive, 2 drives, slave, master) - I could never get the DVR to boot with these drives installed.

     

    I really thought these would be up and running in no time and I would have trouble with the SATA drives but it didn't turn out that way.

     

    The two 1 TB SATA 32 MB cache Seagate drives? - installed without a hitch. It was a little cramped getting the SATA - IDE adapters in there with them, but once mounted, it was up and running without an issue. I put it in service with the SATA drives in it and kept the original IDE Seagate 750 GB drives (nothing wrong with them) as the spares for the customer.

     

    It's nice to know that with the phasing out of high capacity IDE drives, we can keep these units in service with huge SATA drives.

     

    Will a 320gb sata segate work with a sata to ide adapter in a DM eco4??

    I ordered a 130gb western digital ide and cannot get it to work either!!

    i have a 320gb seagate sata and would rather use it than buying a new ide hdd

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    NEW WESTERN DIGITAL HARD DRIVE NOT WORKING IN DM ECO4

     

    Just replaced hard drive, created partition, install and extracted firmware from DM website (D4CR)

    and restalled in DVR and same error "Disk Problem - May be wrong FAT version suggest using monitor to

    reformat disk."

     

    seen another post on here about western digital IDE drives are really just sata drives with Ide adapters and wont work.

     

    I bought the dvr used from a local security company and they had installed a replacment drive which was a WD 40 gb. when it failed i figured i would buy the same brand it had and upgraded to a WD 130gb.

     

    Is there anyway of making this HDD work or am i just up the creek without a paddle?

     

    THANKS IN ADVANCE!

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