I have just bought a Kenwood Music Keg off of eBay. It's a C710 and came with a 10Gb DMS cartridge and an ISD USB1.1 cradle.
The catridge seemd to be completely borked... it took windows about 25 minutes just to mount the drive into the file system. I eventually gave up on that drive and swapped it for a 12Gb Fujitsu drive I happened to have spare.
I have used the latest PhatHack DMS Tools (v2.9) and have used it to set-up the new drive. I used the create new DMS option, chose Kenwood Firmware v13.01. I also ticked the "Refflash box with firmware" and "Install SSA/VIOT" check boxes. It possibly makes no difference but using PMM v3.9.2, I set the "no of Kenwood Digits" value to "1" and set the "Display 250 tracks" value to "off". The "Installed Firmware" properties dialog in PMM Tools also reports that "The PhatNoise DMS is not currently set-up for any head unit." I am able to look at all directories and files in the PHTSYS and PHTDATA partitions. PMM3.9.2 quite happily uploads new MP3's onto the DMS.
In my car, the C710 is connected to the Hide-away receiver portion of my KVT-920DVD via the supplied cable to the "TO 5L I/F" socket (which rather strangely mutes the radio reception!!).
Upon inserting the DMS, and without switching the stereo on, on the C710 unit the lights come on intially, then go off after about 5 secs, then they flash on/off quickly and repeatedly. If I then switch on the 920DVD head unit, upon entering the setup menu I can not find any options for a connected CD changer... the only possible option seems to be the "Aux" input, but there are no options to set for this item.
Can anyone give me some kind of idea what's going wrong? Am I doing one of the steps wrong? Or is my C710 main unit possibly borked? I have dome a search through the forum posts, but couldn't seem to find any posts with the same set-up and problem. Any solutions or pointers would be greatfully received.
Dave.
