Hard Drive - Cannot record fast enough

[any-mgzt]

I have fitted a hard drive and run C12 gone through the setups all good but when I come to record it starts and then stiops error message states cannot record fast enough, so I changed the drive for a new Samsung 160Gb, formatted and setup through the C12 menu, again same error.

Can anyone help me out here please?

[LraiZer]

maybe try the new UltraPhat image now in dbox2 downloads, this has a new ide-hdd built into the image. try with different 2mb..4mb ringbuffer and O_SYNC on/off recording settings and try with swap file and no swap file?

[any-mgzt]

Thanks, tried it still says can't mount drive not correct file system, image looks good though, will evaluate:wink:

[LraiZer]

on UltraPhat image, can you select your drive in hda(Master) setting and then delete all partitions currently on the drive. then select XFS filesystem when you add a new partition.

[PaphosAL]

Can't see why you can't get the hdd to work in C12. LraiZer tested this in beta phase and reported that XFS all worked fine.

He even tidied up the mess I'd made of the IDE-HDD shell menu, LOL!

Cheers- AL :)

ps: Oi, LraiZer- There's still some German lingering in your new HDD menu in UltraPhat, m8 ;)

[LraiZer]

Danke PaphosAL, ich werde es das n?chste Mal fix! :sheep:

internal hallenberg ide-hdd interface tested as working fine in C12 with the following optimal settings:

no swap file
xfs filesystem
2mb ringbuffer
O_SYNC on
ucode_14

try experimenting in C12 with XFS filesystem only and a smaller/bigger ringbuffer and also with O_SYNC on/off

[PaphosAL]

XFS is the only IDE-HDD option available in C12, LraiZer. We dropped EXT2 support on your advice, remember? :)

IDE-HDD support is now only for the recommended XFS format
IDE-HDD Menu given a serious (tested) makeover by LraiZer

(from the C12 release notes)


:stupido3:

[any-mgzt]

Trying UltraPhat looks good the HDD support looks good also, just 1 question, how long do you think it should take to format a 160Gb disk, 3 hours so far and still going??? XFS FORMAT

[LraiZer]

id try setting up your drive again from scratch with a clean set of partitions. to make things simple id recommend running hdd initialize in the commado12 hdd menu as everything is automated in the background and should only take a few mins. once you have done this, you can then install ultraphat image and as soon as you apply ide-interface to active with default IRQ and select yes to mount the new drive, the new partitions you created in Commando12 should be auto detected and mounted ready for recording. dont forget you will still need to set direct(file) in settings/recoding menu and /hdd as your recording directory in the top 0: /hdd list in direct recording settings menu too!

[any-mgzt]

Thanks for that change the drive from 160gb to 20gb as format takes so long in Ultraphat. Anyhow now records without errors but on playback only getting blank screen??

[LraiZer]

is that happening using ucode_14 instead of ucode_001A?

blue button/extras menu/ucode menu/green button

ucode_14 kicks in quicker than ucode_001A when start recording is initialized so helps with black screen recording issues.

[any-mgzt]

Yes ucode_14 is set on

[tomsmith]

update the usb drivers

[LraiZer]

last resort, try turning on use spts mode and use spts mode fix AVIA500 in driver and boot settings. then reboot box.

normal viewing will be muxed in a single stream already so there is no switch between video/audio pes stream viewing and the single muxed ts stream recording.

160gb drive should only take about 1-2 mins to format, so there may be something wrong somewhere with the data throughput bottlenecking and slowing things down with the ide-interface connection and your box?

try monitoring the com port output of the box with nullmodem cable and DBoxII BootManager while attempting to record to see what is happening. there should be no buffer overflow errors.

[PaphosAL]

update the usb drivers

What, on a dBox2? :rolleyes:

[any-mgzt]

Thanks again, the spts mode and use spts mode fix AVIA500are on.

The 20gb drive took 2 hours to format, now I find on reboot it is not mounting the partionns at all.

Will remove IDE interface and check all connections are clean, box was full of dust when I bought it.

[any-mgzt]

I am about to give up on this I have checked all connections and they are good removed Interface and cleaned all connectors etc, refitted. Pre formatted hard drive to XFS format using gparted in ubuntu, fitted hard drive in dbox, using C12 followed all directions given above, still get error message cannot record to mounted partion. This is after the now 3 hours for C12 to format and check file system (20gb drive).