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Why does Dreambox think an empty hard disk is full?
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<blockquote data-quote="Dog's dinner" data-source="post: 783706" data-attributes="member: 362627"><p>Update: I removed the hard drive from the Dreambox and installed it on a computer. Apart from not having a drive name (letter) Windows disk manager gave it a clean bill of health. Installed back into the Dreambox, clicked on Hard disk in setup/system, and the green screen of "I'm giving up again" appeared. Removed said hard drive and replaced with a velociraptor - only 300 GBs against the previous 1.5TBs, but useful for the purposes of the test.</p><p></p><p>This time the Dreambox didn't go potty. It recognized the hard drive and successfully "initialised" it. I'm constantly asked during these initialisation rituals if I want to have a mount point. I have absolutely no preference one way or the other. So I choose yes and no alternately. </p><p></p><p>There's one remaining problem (not strictly true, but who's arguing?), and that's telling the Dreambox what the default recording location is, At the moment it thinks it's on the onboard flash, at a place called [onboad flash]/hdd/. Now there's an option to choose the default recording path in the setup/system menu. Unfortunately, it doesn't allow you to input anything, such as a location path. You can delete a bookmark (if you've got one), you can say OK to what you've already got (i.e. in my case the wrong path), and of course you can cancel the whole operation. It doesn't matter what you do, the option is useless. Perhaps one needs a keyboard or something. </p><p></p><p>At present I'm trying to see whether it can be done via the eupemistically called dreambox control centre (which I'm beginning to like, believe it or not). Anyone know what the telnet command is to install the latest dreambox update? I'm still pretty sure that some of the problems lie with a faulty factory reset file. </p><p></p><p>If this hard drive test hadn't worked, the Dreambox would have been on its way back to the shop in Denmark for an overhaul. </p><p></p><p>It just struck me that the problem with the hard drive may have been Barry Allen's attempt to install itself there. The installation log reported failure, but since it wiped out all the recordings in the process of failing, I suppose the mess it left was something the Dreambox software couldn't fix.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dog's dinner, post: 783706, member: 362627"] Update: I removed the hard drive from the Dreambox and installed it on a computer. Apart from not having a drive name (letter) Windows disk manager gave it a clean bill of health. Installed back into the Dreambox, clicked on Hard disk in setup/system, and the green screen of "I'm giving up again" appeared. Removed said hard drive and replaced with a velociraptor - only 300 GBs against the previous 1.5TBs, but useful for the purposes of the test. This time the Dreambox didn't go potty. It recognized the hard drive and successfully "initialised" it. I'm constantly asked during these initialisation rituals if I want to have a mount point. I have absolutely no preference one way or the other. So I choose yes and no alternately. There's one remaining problem (not strictly true, but who's arguing?), and that's telling the Dreambox what the default recording location is, At the moment it thinks it's on the onboard flash, at a place called [onboad flash]/hdd/. Now there's an option to choose the default recording path in the setup/system menu. Unfortunately, it doesn't allow you to input anything, such as a location path. You can delete a bookmark (if you've got one), you can say OK to what you've already got (i.e. in my case the wrong path), and of course you can cancel the whole operation. It doesn't matter what you do, the option is useless. Perhaps one needs a keyboard or something. At present I'm trying to see whether it can be done via the eupemistically called dreambox control centre (which I'm beginning to like, believe it or not). Anyone know what the telnet command is to install the latest dreambox update? I'm still pretty sure that some of the problems lie with a faulty factory reset file. If this hard drive test hadn't worked, the Dreambox would have been on its way back to the shop in Denmark for an overhaul. It just struck me that the problem with the hard drive may have been Barry Allen's attempt to install itself there. The installation log reported failure, but since it wiped out all the recordings in the process of failing, I suppose the mess it left was something the Dreambox software couldn't fix. [/QUOTE]
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