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    DM500HD cannot see my WD 1T HDD

    Hello Shumifan50, Thanks for the response. I have tried all images on my DM500HD that are out there and with every image it is the same issue! I have given up for now as it was affecting my love life :) I am asking around to see if i can get hold of a another eSATA HDD and eleminate the HDD...
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    DM500HD cannot see my WD 1T HDD

    sblinx, I tried what you suggested, but could not initialize! got a mkfs error :( Any ideas?
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    DM500HD cannot see my WD 1T HDD

    Okay, will try that. Just out of curiosity what Image you running? Gemini5.0?
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    DM500HD cannot see my WD 1T HDD

    Okay, so with a proper eSATA to eSATA cable dreambox could see the HDD, but i still have issues with properly recording on it. It is extremely flaky, in the sense that it would record sometime and then not at all. If it records fine, i cannot playback as dreambox just freezes! I have tried few...
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    DM500HD cannot see my WD 1T HDD

    Ta mate! Not sure how I would initialise a disk that i cannot see! I am waiting for an external HDD with eSATA and see if the issue lies with the hardware or just the DM does not like eSATA <--> usb cable! will keep posted!
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    DM500HD cannot see my WD 1T HDD

    Mates, I have a peculiar problem! My HDD drive (Western Digital - WDBAAF0010HBK) has just the mini USB, so I bought myself a eSATA <--> miniUSB cable (DeLock cabel eSATAp to eSATA/mini USB/DC-5V 1m). Now the external HDD is detected on my linux laptop as well as windows machine, but the...
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    Marrying DB500s with Sky card.

    Ok, so after leaving the card in the db for more than 3 days I now have C4, C5 and other stuffs but none subscribtion ones. I have a feeling that the guy who borrowed me the card has got the subsribtion cancelled though he claims otherwise. Thanks to you all for helping me out here. Cheers,
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    Marrying DB500s with Sky card.

    I was under the impression that the entitelments would get updated once a month so thought the date stamp to be ok. I did try it in the digibox around that date though and it worked in the digibox. I had borrowed the digibox from a mate who has left for UK since then.. so cant really test it...
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    Marrying DB500s with Sky card.

    hmm... so you reckon I should do a factory reset and start from the scratch? I have the latest image and yesterday upgraded my cccam to latest version too but still no luck.. And yes my db500s is an original box and not a clone. Cheers,
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    Marrying DB500s with Sky card.

    I have subscribtion for sky family+sports package and I cant see them on my db500s The entitlements dates as of yesterday were 11-04-2008
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    Marrying DB500s with Sky card.

    Hi mhku, Thanks for the link, I will try that but not sure if it is going to give me any more information than what I get when i go to http://my-db-ip:16001 I can see on the cccam server page that it is seeing the card and the type of encryption plus the provider bsykb! I will still try to...
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    Marrying DB500s with Sky card.

    Hello People, I have read the idiots guide and implemented the recommended solutions after doing lots of searches but still I am not able to marry my sky card with my dreambox 500s. The configuration is as follows. Location - Prague, CZ Satellite - 85cm dish, 3 LNBs. Sync with 3 satellites...
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