DM800C HDD

[loady]

Hi,

Put a 320gb hdd into my dm800C but i cant seem to see it anywhere in settings, i can hear it whirring away just seems the box is not seeing it...do i need to do something to it before i install it into the box ?

[Bonesy]

I had same problem in an 800, the hard was powering and spinning etc..but the box wouldnt see it and due to that could not format it. I ended up sending back the box itself and got a replacment which worked first time seeing the harddrive.

Also make sure the hardware make/model is usible in dm800

[loady]

wasnt aware of specific drives being unusable, it is a fujitsu and is from dell for use in there laptops. is there a list of known non working models ?

[gezz]

What image you using? You know you have to initialise (format) the drive, which will be in your setup somewhere.

[loady]

The latest gemini, its not in the setup at all, the HDD is brand new so i am going to format it in an external first though i thought being a linux box i shouldnt need to do this

[loady]

Well i have managed to get it initialised, the option for it it is listed under devices in the setup/systemmenu but i had also put it in a pc and formatted it with NTFS without drive letter...the box has initialised it also but when i try to start recording it comes up with

'disk size to small <100mb'

In devices it lists the correct model of drive and also the correct size.

[caveman_nige]

did you NTFS the disk after the DM initialised it? Or did you fdisk it afterwards and put in into the DM with with no partitions then then initialise it?

[loady]

No, the drive was brand new so i put it in PC and NTFS it but i told it not to allocate a drive letter, THEN i put it in the 800 and initialised it, it does spout some shit about the not being able to boot the MBR and is ok for LILO.

[caveman_nige]

i installed my HDD in my 600 with no partitions or anything on it... Just initialised it in the DM as it needs to format it with a linux partition like Ext3 or similar (am not at home to check right now).

[loady]

Took the drive out and delted the aprtitions on it then put it back in, its not recognised now....whats the best way to format this in a pc...i can only seem to format to NTFS

[caveman_nige]

If i needed to format them with something different i would boot up on a Hiren Boot CD and use Partition Magic or Acronis as they will format a disk in over 20 different formats for different OS... I used a western digital HDD and it went in with no issues..

Just out of curiosity is this DM800 a clone?

Link to Hiren Boot CD download http://www.digital-kaos.co.uk/forums/f90/hirens-bootcd-v10-0-keyboard-patch-sep-01-2009-a-53409/

[loady]

Yes it's a clone, when I had it out of the unit the dm800 seems to reference to 20.5mb of the flash memory when the drive is ntfs'd in my pc and I put it back in dm800 it is recognized and seems to let me initialize it but it's still referencing to this flash memory which I think is giving the disk to small error message

[loady]

Problem solved..i installed black holev12 image and it found it straight away and got it all going

[saayinla]

I had same problem in an 800, the hard was powering and spinning etc..but the box wouldnt see it and due to that could not format it. I ended up sending back the box itself and got a replacment which worked first time seeing the harddrive.

Also make sure the hardware make/model is usible in dm800

I am running your image but unable to record, i have initialized the disc successfully... but still unable to record