TM800 Internal Hard Drive Question

[digidude]

after doping this, i get a message when trying to record, and nothing happens

it says that its switched to record mode or sommat, then does nowt

via ftp, my old recordings are still there, but on pressing the rec list button, it shows empty

 

[witchy]

Same here Digi. :err:

And if I try to close the box down I get a warning that I am currently recording, but it's not.

 

[witchy]

What do you mean by "initialise"? The drive is now formated and available - all that needs to be done is to mount it, as /media/hdd, or /media/disk, etc. You should also be able to simply reboot and the drive should automount at (both?) of these mount-points.

The firmware has an option to 'initialise' the HDD, not exactly sure what it's supposed to do, but now it just gives us an error.

I reckon it's all to do with the UR image - it's fooked.

 

[fdlsys]

"Initialise" from the menu is the same as format, which is what you have already done with mke2fs (except that the command used by the image is the slow and unreliable one).
Once the drive is "initialised", it should appear in the list when you issue "df" command, and it should show you the size and display the mount point for that drive, if one has been attached automatically by "automount".

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If not, you could manually create a mount-point, for example:

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or

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etc.

Then you could manually mount the drive that you can see in "df", lets say it was the /dev/sdb1:

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That should do it.

Alternatively, just reboot and this should all happen automatically.
Automount script does the "mkdir" and the "mount" for you for every drive it finds in the "df".

 

[fdlsys]

Forgot to mention - you are not going to get far with recording anyway. It only records video+audio on FTA channels, and even worse, the playback locks up after 1-2 minutes.
On non-FTA channels, it only records audio.
So, current PVR functionality is there for "show" only.
More patience...

 

[witchy]

I've had the HDD working before mate and I agree, it's crap just now anyway.

But my problem is that now my box isn't seeing my HD at all, sometimes it will see it but most of the time it doesn't.

Look at this...

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Spot anything missing?

 

[conchobair]

what happens if you do a fdisk -l or sfdisk -l

 

[conchobair]

also you could try the following;

if you have a usb stick installed then replace sda with sdb

mount /dev/sda1 /media/disk; df | grep sda

 

[witchy]

what happens if you do a fdisk -l or sfdisk -l

fdisk -l No change.
sfdisk -l No change.

After each fdisk command I typed df and nothing had changed.

I don't have a usb stick installed mate.

[edit]

I grabbed a usb stick and plugged it in just for the sake of it.

I typed .. mount /dev/sda1 /media/disk; df | grep sda

...and got the following......

TM800@/]# mount /dev/sda1 /media/disk; df | grep sda

mount: mounting /dev/sda1 on /media/disk failed: No such file or directory

 

[conchobair]

the fdisk or sfdisk command only shows what is currently installed or mounted..

Try the mount command i posted and see what it does

mount /dev/sda1 /media/disk; df | grep sda

 

[witchy]

See above mate.

I edited my post.

I rebooted the box and let it boot with the stick plugged into the front usb slot, the usb stick has been sucessfully mounted and I can record to it, but the HDD is still MIA.

lol

TM800@/]# df
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
rootfs 54528 49288 5240 90% /
/dev/root 54528 49288 5240 90% /
sda1 7861204 7044604 816600 90% /media/disk
/dev/sda1 7861204 7044604 816600 90% /media/usb
TM800@/]#

 

[conchobair]

See above mate.

I edited my post.

I rebooted the box and let it boot with the stick plugged into the front usb slot, the usb stick has been sucessfully mounted and I can record to it, but the HDD is still MIA.

lol

TM800@/]# df
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
rootfs 54528 49288 5240 90% /
/dev/root 54528 49288 5240 90% /
sda1 7861204 7044604 816600 90% /media/disk
/dev/sda1 7861204 7044604 816600 90% /media/usb
TM800@/]#

This is mine
TM800@/]# df
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
rootfs 54528 48916 5612 90% /
/dev/root 54528 48916 5612 90% /
sda 1973984 58656 1915328 3% /media/disk
sdb1 307663832 356984 291678416 0% /media/disk-1


sda is USB
sdb1 is HDD

The bit i highlighted is interesting (well to me anyway) .... but not worry about that at the moment.

Try these following commands and see what happens

umount /media/disk-1

mount | grep sdb

sfdisk /dev/sdb
at this point just press enter .. about 4 times or so

then you should see
Do you want to write this to disk? [ynq] y

once that is completed then do the command

mke2fs /dev/sdb1

to finish off
mount /dev/sdb1 /media/hdd

in all this leave the USB stick in place ...