free disk-size to small !!! < 100MB

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yasirsh

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hi every one; i had installed Hitach HDD 500GB type ATA (Harddisk) /dev/sda
model : Hitachi HTS545050B9A300
size 465.8 GB (after initialize)
harddisk is sleeping

and when i press the red botton to record i got this message (free disk-size to small !!! <100MB)
"someone had told me that it works with some types of Hard disk only like Matrix "

any help please send to me
thank you in advanced
 
You may have to wait a few days for an answer yasirsh - most of the forum members will be getting having fun with the Christmas festivities and their families atm
 
Your drive is probably incorrectly formatted in NTFS which is why you only have a small drive < 100Mb reported. The dreambox can probably only see the small recovery partition written in FAT 32. You will probably need to re-format the whole drive to FAT32
 
Several things are not clear:
DM500s - where did you install the hard disk? As far as I know 500s cannot have a hard disk.
What image are you running?
Have you edited the recording path to point at your new hard disk?
 
thank you ... but to use FAT 32 the largest size is 30GB and i have 500 GB which is not good enough . . .
 
yasirsh said:
thank you ... but to use FAT 32 the largest size is 30GB and i have 500 GB which is not good enough . . .
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There's no problem formatting 500Gb in FAT32.
 
Go to setup/system/hard disk/initialise to format the hard disk - be aware it will take some time. Also ensure that your recording path is correct /hdd/movie
 
dear all; i have done all the above steps, fat32 dose not format more than 30GB, and i had initilaize the hard disk useing DM800 HD PVR and choose file system ext3 and ext2 and i had check the recording path it is /hdd/movie/
 
Using telnet do "df" and see what is displayed. Your hard disk should appear and it will also show you the mount point (last string) if it is mounted.
 
dear first thank you for your time ... i had do telengt for DM800 hd pvr and do df and this is what i get
 

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Your hard disk is not mounted at the correct mount point. I have no idea how you managed this.
telnet to box:
mount /dev/sda1 /media/hdd
and try again
 
Yah man . . . it works . .. . thank you alot . . . thanks for everyone ... thanks to tha Satellites . . .
 
Thank you, it works for me as well, but only as long as the dreambox is on, when I restart the dreambox, it dismount the hard desk again and I have to mount it again with same command!!!!

Any trick or command that keep the hd mounted even if I restart the dreambox?

Thank you.
 
Sadhan12 said:
Thank you, it works for me as well, but only as long as the dreambox is on, when I restart the dreambox, it dismount the hard desk again and I have to mount it again with same command!!!!

Any trick or command that keep the hd mounted even if I restart the dreambox?

Thank you.
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Can you not edit the file /etc/vfstab or /etc/fstab and include the drive to mount in the file, should then auto mount?
 
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