Set up hdd on zgemma h2s help

[Craigs dad]

Doe! A second page��

[Craigs dad]

Got it working ���� many thanks to happy_highlander for for his time and information. No doubt I'll be be back with the next problem��

[tykeboy]

Hi, I'm new here and I've got a problem with an external HDD. My H2S doesn't seem to have an option to setup the disk so I set it up myself as follows. The disk is a Toshiba 320Gb 2.5" in a USB caddy.

I partitioned the disk into 270Gb and 50Gb partitions.
The 270Gb is FAT32 and the 50Gb is EXT4.
I used the setup menu to select the locations for recording and timeshift. The 270Gb partition usually shows up as sdb1 and the 50Gb as sdb2. I select the appropriate devices and everything seems to work ok, recordings record and pause/rewind works.
The next day I find that neither work and the sdba/2 devices have disappeared. A reboot and wading through the menus again gets it all working again. Sometimes the 2 partitions show up as something like MQ01ABD032 (partition 2).

What's going on here?

System info:-
Zgemma H.2S
Chipset 7362
CPU BCM7362A0 (751 MHz)
Cores 2
Version 5.3
Build 0
Kernel 4.0.1
Drivers 2016-12-30
GStreamer 1.9.0 (GIT)
Python 2.7.11
Installed 2016-10-02
Last update 2017-01-02

Any help much appreciated.

[happy_highlander]

Single partition or mount the big partition /media/hdd and the small one /media/USB you might still get mount errors with two partitions though regardless of Mount settings

Sent from my SM-G935F using Tapatalk

[tykeboy]

Hi mate, thanks for the reply. Should it just be one big EXT4 partition for both recording and timeshift? It will only accept a range of formats for timeshift (including EXT4 but excluding FAT32).

How do you go about mounting the disk as /media/hdd? I can't see any options in the menus to do that, do you have to get to the command line somehow?

By the way I'm a software developer with quite a bit of UNIX experience so the command line doesn't frighten me.....

[happy_highlander]

Go through the disk initialisation wizard and choose ext4 then hdd if it asks. Most images nowadays will mount a single partition to /media/hdd by default

Sent from my SM-G935F using Tapatalk

[tykeboy]

I'll give it a go tonight, but I've not seen Disk Initialisation Wizard anywhere in the menus. How do I get to it?

[tykeboy]

and as stated earlier, if you dont tell people enough information like image and version being used nobody can advise you

Sorry but I'm new to this machine and software etc.
Where would I find the information you're asking for? What is the "image" you mentioned?
When the machine reboots it says it's Wooshbuild something or other, is that what you mean?
My original post gave all the information under the "About" option in the menus. See below.

System info:-
Zgemma H.2S
Chipset 7362
CPU BCM7362A0 (751 MHz)
Cores 2
Version 5.3
Build 0
Kernel 4.0.1
Drivers 2016-12-30
GStreamer 1.9.0 (GIT)
Python 2.7.11
Installed 2016-10-02
Last update 2017-01-02

[happy_highlander]

I'll give it a go tonight, but I've not seen Disk Initialisation Wizard anywhere in the menus. How do I get to it?

Never used whooshbuild but on open atv you get it by pressing the blue button, that brings up a new menu and you'll find it in there. Not saying it will be under the blue button but try the coloured buttons to see what they do

Sent from my SM-G935F using Tapatalk

[tykeboy]

Hi happy_highlander, I found the mount menu under the blue button. I've deleted the small partition and created a full disk EXT3 partition and set it as hdd as you suggested. It seems to be working so far, I expect I'll find out tomorrow. Many thanks for your help, if you lived locally I'd buy you a pint.

[tykeboy]

Hi, everything seems to be working fine now. Many thanks folks.