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‎09-20-2021 02:14 AM

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Product: P3005X
Operating System: Linux

After installing a (brand new) EIO hard disk (J7989G) my LJ P3005X is stuck in one of the last init process steps.

Display shows "6/6", the animated HP logo and "B/F", Status and error LED flash consecutively (from left to right). No reaction via the network. Without the EIO disk installed startup is normal and the printer works as expected.

 

I did not find any information abot what happens on this startup stage, so I'm stuck also 🙂

 

HP LJ P3005X with additional paper cassette

Firmware 20141217 02.190.3 (AFAIK the latest version)

Additional Memory is 256 MB (320 MB total)

Toner cartridge is recognizes als "original HP" on "normal" startup.

User manual and service manual are available.

 

Thanks in advance

 

Stefan

Kind regards,
Stefan
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‎10-02-2021 04:24 PM

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The final solution:  Replacing the formatter board. (The seller was very helpful and sent me a formatter board in advance.) The printer runs fine since then.

 

 

 

 

Kind regards,
Stefan

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‎09-20-2021 03:21 AM

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Update: After 2 hrs waiting I restarted the printer. Now startup was stuck at "4/6".

After removing the EIO disk the printer started up normally.

Kind regards,
Stefan
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‎09-20-2021 04:42 AM

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Is the HDD 100% working?

 

Did you tried disk initialization:

 

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‎09-20-2021 05:08 AM

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Yes, I did, as described in the service manual. No change, startup is still stuck in stage "4/6".

 

What time für the inital disk setup should I expect? I have done a disk init before (on a LJ 4200 with J6054B (20 GB ATA). Disk init took some minutes, but not hours, as here.

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Stefan
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‎09-20-2021 05:11 AM

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Minute or two, you might have a defective HDD




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‎09-20-2021 05:20 AM

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To test that i made a disk dump (with dd). Could read the complete disk without errors.

 

As I'm not so deep in this topic: Could I swap the disk with any other small SATA-Disk up to 80 GB?

I presume that I need to do a disk init then, right?

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Stefan
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‎09-20-2021 05:34 AM

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You can install a small capacity disk for testing purposes and the initialization must be run to make it work.




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‎09-20-2021 11:45 AM

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Swapped the disk to a Toshiba 80GB SATA (before: Fujitsu 80 GB SATA), installed the EIO module in the printer and performed a disk init.

Startup continued until stage "5/6" - "B/F". LED cycle runs, HP logo is animated.

Let it run the whole afternoon but no change.

(The new disk had been overwritten with dd before, no errors.)

 

I`m trying to get another EIO disk module for testing.

Kind regards,
Stefan
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‎09-20-2021 03:27 PM

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Repeated disk init two more times. Startup always continued until "5/6" "D/F" and stayed at this stage.

 

Does anyone know what is done at this point?

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Stefan
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‎09-20-2021 05:28 PM

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There is an old archive thread about the same problem. Would work with very old firmware but the newer ones. There was no resolution on that post.

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