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[gregoire]

Hello,

I have set up a DM8k for my parent in which I put a 3Tb hard disc before I knew about the restriction with OE1.6 so I installed an OE2 image but they lack proper EPG support.

I wasn't able to find information whether there is a limitation in disc size or not within OpenPLi ?

My parent HD is already GPT's partioned with one ext3 partition : will this work if I update to OpenPLi (which version is then recommended) ?

Thank you very much !!!

[pieterg]

it should probably work, with 3.0

[gregoire]

Thank you very much for the information, so I'll first change on my DM8k (only a 2Tb HD) and see how all goes prior to change my parent's DM8k :-)

[gregoire]

I tested it today on my parent DM8k and all works just tremendous !!!
(I didn't format the disc on the DM but on my PC)

[FredFrin]

I've been trying to connect a 3TB Western Digital HDD in a docking station to DM8000 via USB.,
but this does not seem to want to auto- mount.

I also installed OpenPli 3.0 as I had read I need the 3.2 kernel.

The disk does mount on my Ubuntu PC - so I know it's not a prob with the dock Station.

Any ideas?

[gregoire]

Just to be certain : which fs/partition is on the hd ?

[FredFrin]

Sorry - should have included that: GPT ext3 created with gparted.

Edited by FredFrin, 4 October 2012 - 15:26.

[gregoire]

Well, with that combination I don't see what could be the problem :-(

Is your box able to mount any usb storage (like an usb key) ?
Could you connect to your box (telnet/ssh) and plug the usb's HD and see what's in dmesg ?
Also before the plug, do a
ls -al /dev/sd*
and same after the plug to see if there is a difference.
(One could use dmesg -c before the plug to clean it output).

[FredFrin]

[color=#333333][b]usb 1-1.1: new high-speed USB device number 12 using ehci-brcm[/b][/color]
[color=#333333][b]hub 1-1.1:1.0: USB hub found[/b][/color]
[color=#333333][b]hub 1-1.1:1.0: 4 ports detected[/b][/color]
[color=#333333][b]usb 1-1.1.2: new high-speed USB device number 13 using ehci-brcm[/b][/color]
[color=#333333][b]scsi3 : usb-storage 1-1.1.2:1.0[/b][/color]
[color=#333333][b]scsi 3:0:0:0: Direct-Access	 Generic  External		 2.10 PQ: 0 ANSI: 4[/b][/color]
[color=#333333][b]sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] 1565565872 512-byte logical blocks: (801 GB/746 GiB)[/b][/color]
[color=#333333][b]sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off[/b][/color]
[color=#333333][b]sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 21 00 00 00[/b][/color]
[color=#333333][b]sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page present[/b][/color]
[color=#333333][b]sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through[/b][/color]
[color=#333333][b]sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page present[/b][/color]
[color=#333333][b]sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through[/b][/color]
[color=#333333][b]sdb: unknown partition table[/b][/color]
[color=#333333][b]sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page present[/b][/color]
[color=#333333][b]sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through[/b][/color]
[color=#333333][b]sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk[/b][/color]
[color=#333333][b]uncorrectable error :[/b][/color]

So it does not seem to recognise the GPT partition table. Is there perhaps
a kernel module needed?

Edited by FredFrin, 5 October 2012 - 09:18.

[pieterg]

Is there perhaps
a kernel module needed?

Or a magnifying glass

[pieterg]

in the dm8000 defconfig (openpli 3.0) :

CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION=y

I believe that's all that's needed for GPT support?

[FredFrin]

Was just editing to improve the readability ... then yr post prevented further editing

Anyway - I'm gonna have to admit: I don't know where this file is.
I've searched the entire image - there is no file named 'defconfig',
and I have grep'ed "*config*" on the whole image & not found this
parameter. No access to the MMI @ work

Could you guide me to the config?

Edited by FredFrin, 5 October 2012 - 10:25.

[pieterg]

the defconfig is used while compiling the kernel binary.
So what I was saying, 'the kernel has the right config'

[FredFrin]

On my PC I was mounting the disk via a Docking Station via eSATA, which worked.
At the Dreambox end I was using an identical docking station, but via USB.

I tried at the PC via USB & see the same failure - so the cause seems to be
a limitation in the USB functionality of the docking Station. Looking at the
manufacturers site seems to confirm this.

[gregoire]

Good to know.

[sjlouis]

Hello,

I have the same problems with a WD 3 TO. It's in an USB box and I have found that the box have credibly a limit to 2 TO. As I have a Windows XP, I have some problems to access it in internal and get the 3 TO. I'm seeking solutions.