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[spacebiscuit]

Hi,

 

I am having problem adding my USB drive to my VU+ Solo box. I have read similar problem experienced by other users on the forum. In my case I select to initialise the drive via the main menu and after about 30 seconds I get a timeout error message. The drive worked on a previous satellite box which was also running Enigma 2.

 

I tried updating the image on my box to the latest but because it's a clone the box then would not boot - black screen. To repair the box I had to re-load a clone safe image (v 3.0 August 2012).

 

On one occasion I was able to initilalise the box via a different menu (I think it was via a plug-in) but I have searched and searched but cannot find the option. On this occasion although the drive was successfully added and I was able to record to it, when I tried to record a few days later the box reported that no hard drive was connected!

 

Any ideas?

 

Thanks.

[dirocca]

that is one of the reasons we don´t support clone boxes(see forum rules)

solution; buy a genuine box

 

grtz Philip

[spacebiscuit]

Apologies, I was not aware that 'clone' boxes were not supported. I presume my box is a clone due to the lower cost, is there a definitive way to confirm?

 

Thank you.

 

Bob.

[spacebiscuit]

I have read the forum rules and see that cloned boxes are not supported here.

 

May I ask a related question, is there a plugin I can use to attempt the disk initialisation? Like I said I am sure there an option, perhaps via one of the buttons (blue) on the image that was shipped with the box which isn't there now since I updated the image.

 

Thank you in advance.

 

Bob.

[mattiL]

You could always takeout the disk, connect it to a computer and format it using Linux (for example a bootable Live CD).

 

If the disk is detected by Linux kernel in your box, you could probably format it from a telnet session (telnet against your box), see

http://www.tldp.org/...formatting.html  for details on formatting.

Edited by mattiL, 16 October 2013 - 17:11.

[Pr2]

Not enough power supply output on the USB port so the HDD cannot work properly. Try to insert an externally power USB HUB between your STB and your HDD and give it a another try. In that case it will be the USB HUB that will power the HDD and no longer the STB.

[spacebiscuit]

Actually the drive I am having problems is already has an external power supply, it is a Seagate. So I don't think the problem is power from the USB.

 

Perhaps I should try a USB pen drive to test?

 

Also there is an option converting ext3 to ext4.... should I do this?

 

Thanks,

 

Bob.

[MiLo]

If you format from the settopbox menu, the disk will be formatted in the best way possible for your system. Usually, this will yield better performance than formatting it in a PC (which will assume you'll be using the disk for a desktop instead of a PVR). In all cases, it will be ext4 already.

The convert to ext4 will convert an ext2 or ext3 disk to ext4 (but not fully) without erasing its contents. It does no harm - other than wasting time and energy - to disks already formatted as ext4, nor will it downgrade disks with more advanced ext4 settings.