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to page: Results 1 to 30 of 39 Panasonic DMR-E80H Error messages Thread Tools Show panasonic hard drive recorder faults Printable Version Email this Page Subscribe to this Thread Display Linear Mode Switch to Hybrid Mode Switch to Threaded Mode Thread 13th Feb panasonic hdd recorder copy to usb 200814:02 #1 JeffM View Profile View Forum Posts Private Message Member Join Date : Jan 2004 I was wondering if anyone has experienced this problem with the Panasonic DMR-E80H. I've had the unit for a while and had no http://www.avsforum.com/forum/106-dvd-recorders-standard-def/1283624-panasonic-dmr-ex95v-hdd-err-displayed.html past problems whatsoever. While recording after some minutes, I press the stop button on the remote to stop recording, and hard drive started sputtering. I then get a blue screen with the error message "Error has occured. Please press ENTER." So I press enter and the unit shuts down and reboots. I then get another blue screen error message "Please change the disc." Well, there is no disc in the unit, but it automatically opens up the empty http://forum.videohelp.com/threads/284818-Panasonic-DMR-E80H-Error-messages tray anyway. I shut the tray door, and then I get another error messge: "Error has occured. Please press ENTER." This cycle repeats over and over again, with no end: "Error has occured. Please press ENTER." "Please change the disc." "Error has occured. Please press ENTER." etc... The only way I can shut the unit down, is by holding the power button 10 seconds or so. Well, I eventually got tired of this, so I took the hard drive out, ran a low level format (zero fill) on the drive, and put it back in. When I turned the unit back on, it gives me the option to format the hard drive, so I do. Now, everything seems to be working properly as before. The unit turns on and off with no error messages. I then try to record a couple of minutes, and it seems to be working. But when I press stop, the hard drive sputters and I get the dreaded error message: "Error has occured. Please press ENTER." Then comes: "Please change the disc." etc... again and again. After all that work, the cycle of error message returns! I'm afraid if I go out and buy a new hard drive, I'll get the same error messages, because I don't see anything wrong the hard drive itself. The unit isn't exactly giving me specific hard drive failure messages.
U99 Discussion in 'DVD recorders' started by K2SMN, Jan 4, 2005. Page 1 of 116 1 ← 2 3 4 5 6 → 116 Next > K2SMN Member Joined: Jan 4, 2005 Messages: 39 Likes Received: 0 Trophy http://forums.afterdawn.com/threads/panasonic-dmr-e85h-error-u99.332385/ Points: 16 I have the DMR-E85H Recorder as well as the older DMR-E80H, and after 3 error U99's on the 85H, I have made the following observations: (1)All errors occurred while doing a "Divide". (2) All u99's happened after the hard drive was more than 50% full (may not be relevant however). (3) When I do a "Divide" on the DMR-E80H, it takes about 6 seconds. On the 85H, it takes almost 12 seconds - twice as long! This makes hard drive no sense, as the 85H is newer, and should be at least the same if not faster - not slower! (4) While talking to the Panasonic support (?) people, they say they have never heard of this error. From reading previous threads on this board, that can't be true. (5) My feeling is that a software (firmware) glitch is at fault, and a file "directory" area is being written with bogus data (probably video data) and when the firmware tries panasonic dvd recorder to make sense of it, it throws up and generates the "Error U99". I was told this is a "Hard Drive Failure" error. I have thoroughly tested the hard drive when this has happened, and no hard errors are found. (6) It seems to me if we could get the specifications of their file structure on the hard drive, most - if not all - of the data could be recovered. I have 2 hard drives with lots of video I would like to recover on them. The third drive I allowed the unit to re-format (after first running FDISK on it with a PC to force the re-format.) I would be interested if anyone has gotten any further with this. I saw someone said "Best Buy" was able to recover a U99 system, but I sure don't know how they did it. Panasonic's answer was to replace the hard drive. I also think they should FIX the firmware, and offer to replace the firmware board on those units. Perhaps if we all got together, we could force a "Recall" on that unit to fix the bug. The best way to prove the bug is the difference in the time it takes the older 80H versus the newer 85H. Oh, and if anyone has that "new" 400 GB unit I've seen advertised (but it hasn't shown up in any stores local to me), I would like to know h