External HDD in DM800SE

[skronk]

Hi all,

I have fitted an old 500gb Hdd from my SkyHD box in external enclosure to my 800se.Formatted NTFS.
It has its own power supply. I switch this off at night. I noticed when switched on the next day, the drive needs initialized again as the 800se can't find it. Do I have to leave the drive on permanently or what ?

Thanks

[cactikid]

not 100% sure but some drives i have are on all the time even if box is powered off,if you are not powering off box also it may not see the drive,or if box is rebooted it may see it then,it may be a scenario to try different ways,i am told by powering on and off hard drive is when most faults occur.

[skronk]

not 100% sure but some drives i have are on all the time even if box is powered off,if you are not powering off box also it may not see the drive,or if box is rebooted it may see it then,it may be a scenario to try different ways,i am told by powering on and off hard drive is when most faults occur.

A bit of a nightmare.

Yesterday I record 2 movies (after having to initialize again). Record the movies no problem.

Today, I can watch the movies but cannot record.

In timer I can see what I want to record but status says "waiting"

The recording should have started 1 hour ago !

If I didn't live in a bungalow I would throw this thing out the window

[micflair]

A bit of a nightmare.

Yesterday I record 2 movies (after having to initialize again). Record the movies no problem.

Today, I can watch the movies but cannot record.

In timer I can see what I want to record but status says "waiting"

The recording should have started 1 hour ago !

If I didn't live in a bungalow I would throw this thing out the window

Must be dark in your bungalow with no windows!

Did you try the following combo:

1) Get out of bed.
2) Turn off DM800se.
3) Turn on HD
4) Turn on DM800se.

And see if it then recognises it.

Imagine unplugging your hard drive from your PC while its still on (an internal one). It would go mental. I think its something similar going on here, the dm800se is expecting it to be there and when you turn it off it gets upset. I dont think it treats it as a PC would treat an external drive as such.

[skronk]

Must be dark in your bungalow with no windows!

Did you try the following combo:

1) Get out of bed.
2) Turn off DM800se.
3) Turn on HD
4) Turn on DM800se.

And see if it then recognises it.

Imagine unplugging your hard drive from your PC while its still on (an internal one). It would go mental. I think its something similar going on here, the dm800se is expecting it to be there and when you turn it off it gets upset. I dont think it treats it as a PC would treat an external drive as such.

Will give it a try...!
Not enough height from window to ground to do the damage this ~~~~in' hdd deserves...

[cactikid]

or if its an old drive it may be worn out

[khurshid ali]

[skronk]

or if its an old drive it may be worn out

Only used 2 weeks then removed from Sly box to accomodate larger drive, so effectively brand new !!!!!

Thank ~~~~ for drink......

[skronk]

Trying to format/initialize new hdd using TSPanel

Get message Mkfs failed.DM800se and Dreamboxuk image.

Help ?

[davvo]

put both of these lines in var/etc/fstab
reboot
then initialize

#/dev/sda1            /media/hdd           auto       defaults              0 0
/dev/sdb1            /media/hdd           auto       defaults              0 0

make sure you have a folder called movie in media/hdd

if not telnet the command below

mkdir /media/hdd/movie

[dibble]

Trying to format/initialize new hdd using TSPanel

Get message Mkfs failed.DM800se and Dreamboxuk image.

Help ?

I got a bogus failure message when I did this on my external HDD using a Newnigma2 image . If yours is similar try telneting to the box and do the following as root: (what you type is in blue)

[COLOR=RoyalBlue]fdisk /dev/sda[/COLOR]
The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 243201.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
   (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)

Command (m for help):[COLOR=RoyalBlue] p[/COLOR]

Disk /dev/sda: 2000.4 GB, 2000398934016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 243201 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xbd83c23f

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1      243201  1953512028+  83  Linux

Command (m for help):[COLOR=RoyalBlue] q[/COLOR]

That's what a successfully format disk should look like. If that didn't work, run mkfs /dev/sda1 by hand and see what error it returns.
After that make sure you have a directory called /mount/hdd and that the following is in your /etc/fstab file:

/dev/sda1            /media/hdd           auto       defaults              0 0

[skronk]

put both of these lines in var/etc/fstab
reboot
then initialize

#/dev/sda1            /media/hdd           auto       defaults              0 0
/dev/sdb1            /media/hdd           auto       defaults              0 0

make sure you have a folder called movie in media/hdd

if not telnet the command below

mkdir /media/hdd/movie

Not sure how to telnet. Can you please explain the procedure ?

Thanks

[davvo]

start dreambox control center and click telnet

or on pc
in run box
type cmd press enter on keyboard
type telnet 192.168.x..x <-----------your dm ip
press enter on keyboard
login with root (enter on kb)
dm password (enter on kb)