Originally Posted by
Orbitalzone:
“If you disconnect the hard drive from the MG35 circuit board, does the device then power up?
These devices can run without a hard drive and act as a media streamer, if it powers up ok without the hard drive then it might indicated the hard drive has failed.
Note that the Freecom MG35 is a rebadged MediaGate 35
Here's some sites that might help
http://www.airlinktek.com/english/at...=cs&class2=qna
http://mediagate.pbwiki.com/MG35Faq”
Yep, I have the Sweex 131, which is essentially the same one.
Mine would no longer read the hard drive.
I removed the hard drive and plugged it into a standard IDE port on my computer, and it worked perfectly.
The Sweex itself, also works perfectly without it's hard drive, in that it can access public folders on other computers.
I've currently "retired" it, as I have a P4/XP computer where it used to be now.
If I ever need to buy another IDE drive, or suddenly find myself with one from another retired machine I'll see if it still works with a different HD.
But there are upgraded/better versions now. The codecs in the MG35 are a little out of date so HD isn't available at all, and some video files need conversion if they're to play on it.
The NDAS client (which allow you to write to it from a computer over the network) is, and always has been, very clunky anyway. Not exactly unuseable, but it doesn't work over TCP/IP and needs a different, very slow, network protocol.
But it made an excellent host for my MP3 files.