wullboy
19-03-12, 20:26
This is quote from digidude from another site.....he made this post on the 1st March 2010........WELL i`m not going to hold my breath waiting on the guy`s from TECHNOMATE....... there technical services are shite.......and i believe there will never ever be fix from them.....hopefully somebody else might, CHEERS....
" o " and by the way, i have the latest image installed on the box...
Re: tm600 hard drive problem
i personally think its down to a hardware/software mismatch within enigma itself
enigma assumes the hard drive is an IDE connection, so can control drive speed, spindown etc etc, the TM receivers use USB, which then also utilise USB-IDE (or SATA in most cases) adaptors, with their own on board drivers
enigma tells the spin down commands to locations such as /hdd or /media, but the TM uses /mnt/usb so the commands may be being sent to the wrong places to control the drives
while it is possible to modify your hardware to manually switch off the drive, this means you need to remember to also switch it back on, the usb - IDE (or sata) adaptor is constantly powered by the usb socket, so constantly powers the drive as well
as enigma issues drive commands, and not commands to control power to the drives, this in my opinion, is why drives dont spin down on the TM's
i have emailed information (numerous times) to the UR team detailing hdd and usb information, that will solve a lot of other issues, and possibly this one as well (now i think about it, im 90% sure it would, dependant on the adaptor)
i think its one of those things that will eventually be sorted
" o " and by the way, i have the latest image installed on the box...
Re: tm600 hard drive problem
i personally think its down to a hardware/software mismatch within enigma itself
enigma assumes the hard drive is an IDE connection, so can control drive speed, spindown etc etc, the TM receivers use USB, which then also utilise USB-IDE (or SATA in most cases) adaptors, with their own on board drivers
enigma tells the spin down commands to locations such as /hdd or /media, but the TM uses /mnt/usb so the commands may be being sent to the wrong places to control the drives
while it is possible to modify your hardware to manually switch off the drive, this means you need to remember to also switch it back on, the usb - IDE (or sata) adaptor is constantly powered by the usb socket, so constantly powers the drive as well
as enigma issues drive commands, and not commands to control power to the drives, this in my opinion, is why drives dont spin down on the TM's
i have emailed information (numerous times) to the UR team detailing hdd and usb information, that will solve a lot of other issues, and possibly this one as well (now i think about it, im 90% sure it would, dependant on the adaptor)
i think its one of those things that will eventually be sorted