Hard drive

[nesbittchat]

dm500hd trying to get external hard drive activated but will not recognise it. Searched for formatting and a lot says format to ext 3. Does any one know of any software to do this or any other method? My image is nemesis 2.6.

cheers

[nesbittchat]

Anyone??? Please!!

[mo.p]

Anyone??? Please!!

hi m8 u need to mount your hdd first menu/setup/system/setup devices/ select(3)manually select a muntpoint save it reboot

[nesbittchat]

Have tried that mate but my box is not even recognising it. I have set up a USB with no probs. does my hard drive need to be a certain format for it to recognise my hard drive? Have used it in my spiderbox with no faults.

Cheers

[IAmATeaf]

What type of external HDD is it? And is it powered or does it get all its power from the eSATS connector? Wondering if it's a power related issue.

[nesbittchat]

To be honest mate it is a cheap one, but I have used on spiderbox and as a wii hard drive and no probs. it's USB connected. Do you or anyone know of compatable hard drive for the dm 800hd?

Cheers for reply pal!!

[IAmATeaf]

If it's USB connected and the drive isn't externally powered then it could be a power issue, have you tried it all the USB ports?

[nesbittchat]

yes tryed in all ports. formatted to ext3 and ext2 and still nothing...doing my head in now!!

[IAmATeaf]

So is the drive wholly powered via USB? If it is then and you have a 2 headed USB cable so that the cable plugs into 2 USB ports so that the 2nd USB connection also provides power.

Apart from that can't think of much else.