Has there been a solution to the non-working 44c and newer muvo/hitachi 4gb
microdrives for use in the ist D? I've been looking around and have found the
occasional comment that it can be worked around by a firmware fix. However, it
sounds a bit dodgy.
What's the current status on this issue, if anyone would like to give me a
quick update.
You've lost me, what's the 44c issue? The drive out of my Muvo worked straight
up, the drives contained in the latest Muvos apparently don't work and there's
no way to make them.
Yeah, 44c is part of the serial on the newer hitachi drives, so same problem. I don't know of a fix if there is.
Having said that, the Muvo I bought a month ago in Oz still had the old drive in it... took a punt on them not getting new stock here yet, and was lucky. Works perfectly in the *istD.
Curiously, it had the "new" style packaging, but without the warning on. Some sort of in-between stock, or perhaps simply different style for different regions. I got mine from mp3direct.com.au, as I beleive others on here have. Not anywhere near as cheap as they were from the US, but on the other hand, those are garrunteed not to work.
Some people have indicated that you can also tell by the "Partition Par No" on the back of the muvo2 packaging, mine was 06PD052300008 - I beleive some higher numbers at the end mean later units. But I'd guess if the package doesn't have the "warning not for use with other equipment" thing on, it is likely old stock. Could always call and ask, mp3direct seemed pretty helpful when I talked to them.
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