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I got the replacement drive, and with the Memorex 512MB USB drive, everything is working.

Thanks for the help.

--Scott

Johannes,

I took the disk out of the Bubba and put it in a PC. It is not recognized on startup, so I'll be sending that back rather than the Bubba. But at least I know which USB drive to use when I get the replacement. Thanks for the help.

By the way, is the minimal disk image meant to work ...

The red LED blinks once a second for hours, along with the front LED.

Sorry, I was mistaken in my last post --- I forgot to reformat the last USB drive before trying the install. Doing a FAT32 format, I get farther. There is a good amount of reading from the USB drive. However, now the hard drive led flashes steadily forever, about once a second. Does that indicate ...

I've tried two other USB drives with basically the same result.

1. PQI Card Drive U505, 2GB --- Lights up to show power, but never flashes to show activity

2. SanDisk Cruzer micro, 1GB --- Light flashes once on power up, and never again

3. Memorex, 512M --- No light at all.

I noticed that the ...

Hi,

Thanks for the replies.

I've gotten through step 3 --- front led flashes, drive spins up, and the red led flashes briefly. The USB indicator lights to indicate power, but never flashes as it did when I formatted it and copied the image on to it. I'll try to find another USB drive to try with ...

Hi,

I added a hard drive to a diskless Bubba today and I don't think it is going well. The drive is a 750 MB Seagate (ST980825AS). I understand that formatting could take quite a while, but I've let the process run for several hours three times now. For the second attempt, I reformatted the USB ...