TM800 Internal Hard Drive Question

[forrest1066]

Off to buy myself an internal hard drive today, i noticed the box came with a sata cable will i need to buy as sata power cable or it that internal inside the TM800??

 

[digidude]

the sata power cable is already wired internally to the receivers PSU, you only need to buy a drive m8

 

[forrest1066]

cheers dude :Clap: helpful as always roud:

 

[mjamil]

Hi which image for hard drive support i appriciate for ur help

 

[digidude]

there is ony one image at the moment, UR, daqted 15-07-10 for limited hdd support

 

[witchy]

Is there such a plug-in that will allow us to format the HDD properly whilst installed in the TM800?

 

[fdlsys]

Have a look at Jimux' PPanel toolkit - I think that the (correct) format routine is there.
If not, the command to use directly from Telnet is "mke2fs".

Quoting jimux:
"mkfs.ext3 is installed but causes IO errors when processing a partition. mke2fs works quickly and accurately on whole disks. Once formatted disks read and write accurately, are detected on power on and mounted to /media/disk. "

 

[witchy]

Have a look at Jimux' PPanel toolkit - I think that the (correct) format routine is there.
If not, the command to use directly from Telnet is "mke2fs".

I love you.

Will the disc be correctly mounted as sda?

 

[fdlsys]

Thank you... Pretty little wart there; on your nose

Re. HDD - haven't tried it myself, but I trust Jimux, and he says yes. Simple logic would imply that the built-in devices would be mounted first, and only then the removable ones. I'm sure you'll be fine.

 

[conchobair]

uummm if you only have a HDD installed then you're good to go .. this will be seen as media/disk and sda,

if you have a USB stick installed aswell as a HDD then they will be installed as follows

USB media/disk (sda)
HDD media/disk-1 (sdb)

 

[witchy]

I'm getting an error telling me that sda1 is in use by the system. :err:

I'm typing...

mke2fs -b 4096 /dev/sda1

Is this the correct useage?

 

[witchy]

I got it to work by adding the -F switch.

 

[digidude]

I got it to work by adding the -F switch.

what did you type alltogether m8, so others can copy

 

[witchy]

This is what I typed, I dunno if it is correct but it seems to have worked.

mke2fs -b 4096 -F /dev/sda1

The -F must be capitalised as -f is a different command entirely.

The -F switch forces the action even if it is reported as in use.

 

[digidude]

TM800@/]# mke2fs -b 4096 -F /dev/sda1
mke2fs 1.38 (30-Jun-2005)
/dev/sda1 is apparently in use by the system; mke2fs forced anyway.
Filesystem label=
OS type: Linux
Block size=4096 (log=2)
Fragment size=4096 (log=2)
14663680 inodes, 29304568 blocks
1465228 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user
First data block=0
895 block groups
32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group
16384 inodes per group
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208,
4096000, 7962624, 11239424, 20480000, 23887872

Writing inode tables: 225/895

 

[witchy]

It's an 80Gb drive I have.

I'm now showing 79552MB free space, whereas before the drive was reporting that it was full - even though there was feck all on it.

 

[digidude]

mines half way through, 120G

it used to report -1Mb free space

hopefully thisll make it more stable

 

[digidude]

TM800@/]# mke2fs -b 4096 -F /dev/sda1
mke2fs 1.38 (30-Jun-2005)
/dev/sda1 is apparently in use by the system; mke2fs forced anyway.
Filesystem label=
OS type: Linux
Block size=4096 (log=2)
Fragment size=4096 (log=2)
14663680 inodes, 29304568 blocks
1465228 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user
First data block=0
895 block groups
32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group
16384 inodes per group
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208,
4096000, 7962624, 11239424, 20480000, 23887872

Writing inode tables: done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done

This filesystem will be automatically checked every 25 mounts or
180 days, whichever comes first. Use tune2fs -c or -i to override.
TM800@/]#


now reporting 119099Mb free sapce

 

[witchy]

I've got loads of free space now, but I still can't record, lol

If I try to initialise the drive I get an error 'Create Partition Failed'.

 

[fdlsys]

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.