Still thinking about the ET8500 - now the UV+ Solo SE is 169 which is better

[Sicilian]

Mutant tuner modules are single tuners. Input and output connections.

[irishbiker]

Mutant tuner modules are single tuners. Input and output connections.

Thanks, OK it adds an additional 30 quid

[Rob van der Does]

At least I initialised the new hdd to EXT4 on my PC, so that saved time.

Meaning the HDD hasn't been optimised for PVR use, which would be the case if the box initialised it.

[twol]

Meaning the HDD hasn't been optimised for PVR use, which would be the case if the box initialised it.

Tell me more, thought it just formatted the disk partition as ext4? or are you saying it uses a special format?
E2 sets up the folders.

[Rob van der Does]

E2 uses indeed specific parameters for the initialisation of a HDD/stick. It has to do with the difference in using a device: a PC handles (mostly) many small files, and must be as quick as possible in (random) reading them, while PVR-usage is basically about large files.

For your information: this is what the bo does (Harddisk.py) when initialising an HDD:

mkfs.ext4 -C 65536 -T largefile -m0 -O sparse_super,bigalloc,dir_index /dev/sda

[twol]

Thanks Rob, you learn a little more every day

[Rob van der Does]

Thanks Rob, you learn a little more every day

Yeah, same here. Tiring and no idea when that ends