[Error Code] Konica Minolta C1060L, error code: C-DOE1 (3)

[Luke Laupheimer]

So I tried booting it up just now and it threw this error. Apparently it has something to do with the HDD. But the thing is, I didn't swap the HDD out. So

1) What can I do to fix this?
2) If I have to replace the HDD, how do I do so? Is this simple?

[Ziggy]

found this online. If you aren't a technician I highly advice calling one. You can cost yourself a lot of money if you aren't careful
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[Luke Laupheimer]

found this online. If you aren't a technician I highly advice calling one. You can cost yourself a lot of money if you aren't careful
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I just looked at the service manual and you're right; it looks like a real pain. I think I have the aptitude to learn how to do this, but it also looks like it requires a lot of due diligence and you need to really take this machine apart. I'll likely call the technician today. Out of curiosity, how many hours do you estimate this should take an experienced technician who is charging full hourly rate + parts?

[wjurls]

I just looked at the service manual and you're right; it looks like a real pain. I think I have the aptitude to learn how to do this, but it also looks like it requires a lot of due diligence and you need to really take this machine apart. I'll likely call the technician today. Out of curiosity, how many hours do you estimate this should take an experienced technician who is charging full hourly rate + parts?

There can be up to 4 hard drives involved. Hard to estimate for another tech to come out. We all charge different labor rates and parts mark ups.

I would allow about 2 hours labor to replace the drives and get them all formatted.

[Ziggy]

There can be up to 4 hard drives involved. Hard to estimate for another tech to come out. We all charge different labor rates and parts mark ups.

I would allow about 2 hours labor to replace the drives and get them all formatted.

Agree

[Luke Laupheimer]

There can be up to 4 hard drives involved. Hard to estimate for another tech to come out. We all charge different labor rates and parts mark ups.

I would allow about 2 hours labor to replace the drives and get them all formatted.

That sounds like a reasonable estimate, and I can swing what they charge. I guess I'd like to make a follow-up: I'm looking up the hard disk prices and I'm seeing some really ridiculous prices, often at around $300/ea. These aren't huge hard disks, they're like 320GB each. Is there anything actually special about these drives, or can I just replace them with any reliable low-RPM SATA (or IDE) drive? Is the provide-my-own-drives game one I can play to keep repair costs down?

[wjurls]

That sounds like a reasonable estimate, and I can swing what they charge. I guess I'd like to make a follow-up: I'm looking up the hard disk prices and I'm seeing some really ridiculous prices, often at around $300/ea. These aren't huge hard disks, they're like 320GB each. Is there anything actually special about these drives, or can I just replace them with any reliable low-RPM SATA (or IDE) drive? Is the provide-my-own-drives game one I can play to keep repair costs down?

Small 320 GB drives are actually a lot more expensive than newer 1 or 2 TB drives are. They are a lot rarer these days than the big drives. There isn't anything special about them.
Sometimes you can get away with a larger or smaller drive, sometimes not. I prefer to stick with whatever it originally came with.

[Luke Laupheimer]

Small 320 GB drives are actually a lot more expensive than newer 1 or 2 TB drives are. They are a lot rarer these days than the big drives. There isn't anything special about them.
Sometimes you can get away with a larger or smaller drive, sometimes not. I prefer to stick with whatever it originally came with.

Yeah I noticed that after posting this. I get the desire to keep with OME stuff, completely, because of how reliable it is, but times are tough now, and I know for a fact that these companies pile on the markup, in layers. So there's a limit to "just always use OME" and I'm trying to suss out if the HDD issue is one of them. I'm definitely persuaded that the pro technician argument holds water in the case of the C1060L because of how elaborate the deconstruction of the machine is to get at the HDDs, but I want to stress that it varies by model. The entire C200 series of Konicas looks really simple to do this, and I'd be comfortable doing that on my own.

So really, to loop back to this, I'm trying to figure out if there's really an argument to care about if the HDD is from the right manufacturer in the case of the C1060L or not. If the machine is really anal about this I'm going to just suck it up and replace them but if it's not then I'm going to try to replace the drives with cheaper ones that come from a manufacturer with a reputation for reliability.

[Synthohol]

gotta be 4 good WD drives in this lot or even 4 seagates.

how about 50 of them for 120 dollars?
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266993035504?var=0&mkevt=1&mkcid=1&mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&toolid=10050&campid=CAMPAIGNID&customid=CUSTOM ID

[wjurls]

gotta be 4 good WD drives in this lot or even 4 seagates.

how about 50 of them for 120 dollars?
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266993035504?var=0&mkevt=1&mkcid=1&mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&toolid=10050&campid=CAMPAIGNID&customid=CUSTOM ID

That's a tempting deal.
I typically use Western Digital drives when I replace them. OEM is almost always Toshiba for some reason.