Thanks a lot MiLo! Will try this today.
Yes, manually format it. For the ET boxes, the best settings are:
mkfs.ext4 -O bigalloc,sparse_super,dir_index -C 262144 -T largefile -N 262144 -m0 /dev/sda2
Assuming that /dev/sda2 is the second partition on the disk.
Thanks Milo... this worked fine!!