The program planner on my Sky Plus box had not been showing future schedules for a few days so I decided to power-cycle to force the listings to be downloaded. Alarmingly, after the power cycle the box would not reboot. Trying not to panic I checked this article and decided to do the force reset. This took a few minutes but it did work and Sky was back and the recorded programs were still there. Phew.
I've heard that replacement hard-disks can be a problem if they do not spin up fast enough. I'm wondering if the replacement Western Digital WD800BB-75DKA0 doesn't boot fast enough but forcing a firmware download makes the firmware come up after the disk is already spinning. Just a theory but enough for me to avoid Western Digital if I was changing the disk again.
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