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If like me you've never thought about or even knowingly touched an SD card or CF card and haven't a clue what they do, read on.
I forked out £35 for an SD card intending to install barry allen on it to enable multibooting or multi-images. I had posted a question wondering whether it was a good idea. Problem is with posts, if you ask more than one question per post, you probably won't get an answer to more than the first - and often you'll get an answer to a question you didn't know you'd asked.
So it was - after waiting a day and a half for an answer, I opened the plastic container and inserted the SD card into the Dreambox slot.
A couple of hours later (following various unsuccessful attempts to install barry allen on the card, an answer appeared saying 'you can't use an SD card for barry allen. You need a CF card'. That particular SD card ended up in my daughter's new camera.
More head-scratching. Off to a local branch of Clas Ohlsson where I got hold of a Sandisk CF card (might add that the shop assistants didn't know what a CF card was either) for about £12 - 4GB of space.
Back home I jammed it into the CF card slot. The dreambox was on, but I didn't know any better. Since the dreambox didn't seem to react or ask whether I wanted to format the card, I started turning the machine on and off at the mains, removing and inserting the card in between every other boot cycle.
By then I'd discovered (five days too late) that one shouldn't insert or remove CF cards while the Dreambox is on. That explained something. But had I even shoved the card into the Dreambox right way round? Obviously the end with the holes in it had to point inwards, but should the Sandisk sticker uppermost, or underneath? Anybody's guess I suppose. At the moment its nestling inside its slot with the Sandisk sticker underneath.
I expect by now though that I've buggered up the whole machine.
I went ahead yesterday and starting deleting anything reminiscent of barry allen in the Dreambox's own flash. That's probably buggered everything up as well. It's certainly deleted everything on the hard drive (only a week's worth of concerts and films etc. - last time it was about twelve months' worth).
Back to resetting the machine to the factory
I forked out £35 for an SD card intending to install barry allen on it to enable multibooting or multi-images. I had posted a question wondering whether it was a good idea. Problem is with posts, if you ask more than one question per post, you probably won't get an answer to more than the first - and often you'll get an answer to a question you didn't know you'd asked.
So it was - after waiting a day and a half for an answer, I opened the plastic container and inserted the SD card into the Dreambox slot.
A couple of hours later (following various unsuccessful attempts to install barry allen on the card, an answer appeared saying 'you can't use an SD card for barry allen. You need a CF card'. That particular SD card ended up in my daughter's new camera.
More head-scratching. Off to a local branch of Clas Ohlsson where I got hold of a Sandisk CF card (might add that the shop assistants didn't know what a CF card was either) for about £12 - 4GB of space.
Back home I jammed it into the CF card slot. The dreambox was on, but I didn't know any better. Since the dreambox didn't seem to react or ask whether I wanted to format the card, I started turning the machine on and off at the mains, removing and inserting the card in between every other boot cycle.
By then I'd discovered (five days too late) that one shouldn't insert or remove CF cards while the Dreambox is on. That explained something. But had I even shoved the card into the Dreambox right way round? Obviously the end with the holes in it had to point inwards, but should the Sandisk sticker uppermost, or underneath? Anybody's guess I suppose. At the moment its nestling inside its slot with the Sandisk sticker underneath.
I expect by now though that I've buggered up the whole machine.
I went ahead yesterday and starting deleting anything reminiscent of barry allen in the Dreambox's own flash. That's probably buggered everything up as well. It's certainly deleted everything on the hard drive (only a week's worth of concerts and films etc. - last time it was about twelve months' worth).
Back to resetting the machine to the factory