Hello,
There exist Sharkoon bay and other vendors HHD bay's based on ASMEDIA "asm1051" chip.
If your Sharkoon bay have this one then go to:
http://station-drivers.com/page/asmedia.htm and get flasher and firmware for asm1051:
(Note: archives are ".exe" so be sure to scan against viruses first!)
Link for flasher:
http://station-drivers.com/telechargement/asmedia/1051/MPTools_1.07.1v(www.station-drivers.com).exeRun to unpack.
Now get firmware for 1051 "Support 3TB HDD".
Link for firmware:
http://station-drivers.com/telechargement/asmedia/1051/firmware_alls(www.station-drivers.com).exeRun to unpack and use "101026_00_68_00.bin"
Run flasher MPtool.exe , click on "Unlock MP tool" and type "asmedia" (without "").
Connect your HDD bay and if everything is ok there will be some data for VID, PID, firmware version, etc.
On "Device Function" window be sure that ONLY "Update FW" ARE CHECKED!!!
Now in "Device Firmware" window click on "FW Brows" and find "101026_00_68_00.bin" file.
Now press "Start" button and wait for end of flashing.
When it is done, remove usb cable and unplug HDD bay from power. Plug again to power and usb. And if everything OK
your HDD bay will be recognized.
But this special firmware change sector size of your >2TB hdd from 512 bytes to 4Kb and have to be initialized.
For that, best solution is to get "GPARTED live linux image". Burn to CD and reboot your PC.
Once started, select you HDD in HDD bay. Initialize drive using "GPT"!!! Now format that partition with "NTFS", set some label and that is it!!!. Also you can use Windows 7 to do same (Find on net how to create GPT drive on win7).
It is tested with amp r8 oplay version with WD30EZRX.
Good is that it will work on OPLAY, Linux, Win 7(vista?) and it works on XP!!! without any GPT driver!!!
Bad is if you remove HDD from that HDD bay and try to directly connect via sata to PC or to use in other HDD bay that
not have firmware which convert 512b to 4k size sector, hard will not be usable unless you reformat it.
Dex