pooface
10-08-10, 10:34
Hi guys.
Just wondered if anyone has had a hdd of greater than 1tb, and have actually used 1tb worth of the storage yet?!
I'm just asking, because I've read a few reports previously (can't remember where now though), that there are problems with the vu duo of having a hdd greater than 1tb, when more than 1tb is actually used.
I say this, because last night, I finally reached the 1tb limit (well, just over 1000gb, but a bit weird it's just at this size)... Anyway, this morning, I had a recording set. When I went to check on the recording, it wasn't recording. Tried going to the movie list to see whether it had tried or whatever, and the box seemed to be frozen. So, opened telnet, because I've changed back to the DE image, I typed the command "Delitecmd reboot". Came up with message on screen that there is a recording, are you sure you want to reboot. Remote was working again, and could click no. Tried looking at my movie list again, came blank, not frozen.
Opened telnet again, "cd /hdd/" and did an "ls", and got an empty drive. Weird I thought. So, anyway, did a "mounts", and it said that the hdd was mounted correctly. "df -h", and get the information for my hdd "/dev/sdb1 1.4T 10004.9G 293.0G 72% /media/hdd". So, it was definately my 1.5tb drive, with just over 1tb used, and mounted correctly...
Anyway, did a reboot (even though it complained of a recording which should be recording but wasn't. When it started back, it came up with an error message. Think the exact message that came up was: "No displayable files on this medium found". However, I checked the recorded files, and it showed them. There were the 2 recordings meant to happen this morning that weren't there (1 at 7.20, 1 at 7.50), but there was a recording there from 6.25 (although I didn't check it actually works). Doing a telnet, I can see the list on /media/hdd. Not had time to do further testing tho, as had to head off to work...
So, I am just wondering whether this is a problem with the image, or whether it's the problem that I've read before about the 1tb issue...
Hopefully there are some other users out there that have had such an issue before?! Or users who have more than 1tb of stuff on their hdd... Also, would it be worth emailing alex at vuplus, or should I not bother, since I never had any responses to my problems before...
If it is an issue with the 1tb hdd used, then I think I'd be able to get away with it by formatting the partitions, and setting up links to the downloaded movies I've stored on the hdd (or the kids movies) and move them to a 500gb partition, and have a 1tb partition for the recordings... Does the vu duo handle partitioned hdds? If so, how about symlinks and suomipoeka plugin?
Thanks again guys, and hope we can get some useful insight from this...
Just wondered if anyone has had a hdd of greater than 1tb, and have actually used 1tb worth of the storage yet?!
I'm just asking, because I've read a few reports previously (can't remember where now though), that there are problems with the vu duo of having a hdd greater than 1tb, when more than 1tb is actually used.
I say this, because last night, I finally reached the 1tb limit (well, just over 1000gb, but a bit weird it's just at this size)... Anyway, this morning, I had a recording set. When I went to check on the recording, it wasn't recording. Tried going to the movie list to see whether it had tried or whatever, and the box seemed to be frozen. So, opened telnet, because I've changed back to the DE image, I typed the command "Delitecmd reboot". Came up with message on screen that there is a recording, are you sure you want to reboot. Remote was working again, and could click no. Tried looking at my movie list again, came blank, not frozen.
Opened telnet again, "cd /hdd/" and did an "ls", and got an empty drive. Weird I thought. So, anyway, did a "mounts", and it said that the hdd was mounted correctly. "df -h", and get the information for my hdd "/dev/sdb1 1.4T 10004.9G 293.0G 72% /media/hdd". So, it was definately my 1.5tb drive, with just over 1tb used, and mounted correctly...
Anyway, did a reboot (even though it complained of a recording which should be recording but wasn't. When it started back, it came up with an error message. Think the exact message that came up was: "No displayable files on this medium found". However, I checked the recorded files, and it showed them. There were the 2 recordings meant to happen this morning that weren't there (1 at 7.20, 1 at 7.50), but there was a recording there from 6.25 (although I didn't check it actually works). Doing a telnet, I can see the list on /media/hdd. Not had time to do further testing tho, as had to head off to work...
So, I am just wondering whether this is a problem with the image, or whether it's the problem that I've read before about the 1tb issue...
Hopefully there are some other users out there that have had such an issue before?! Or users who have more than 1tb of stuff on their hdd... Also, would it be worth emailing alex at vuplus, or should I not bother, since I never had any responses to my problems before...
If it is an issue with the 1tb hdd used, then I think I'd be able to get away with it by formatting the partitions, and setting up links to the downloaded movies I've stored on the hdd (or the kids movies) and move them to a 500gb partition, and have a 1tb partition for the recordings... Does the vu duo handle partitioned hdds? If so, how about symlinks and suomipoeka plugin?
Thanks again guys, and hope we can get some useful insight from this...