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kallestorp
13-01-13, 10:07
Hi

I own a ultimo and I want to upgrade my harddisk to a 3 Tb WD AV-GP. Is this okay to do? Vill this size be recognised by vix and ultimo? Thanks in forehand for your reply!
kallestorp
16-01-13, 11:09
Nobody knows?. Okay I am gonna try today. Let you guys know
Larry-G
16-01-13, 16:53
Like most things in this hobby, you will only know if you try.

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kallestorp
16-01-13, 17:30
It recognises the harddisk in initial setup. I mean it's visible. It lets you initialize the harddisk but if you go to mounting it sees only a 750 Gb harddisk istead of 3Tb (one of the four disks I assume).
It does not let me to take a backup. So bottom line: It does not work (yet). I have an ultimo with the vix image 3.0 flashed on it. It made a log when trying to mount which is send to Andy. Any suggestions? Anybody?

I looked at openpli and they suggested you have to upgrade to 3.0 their as well. So is it a future feature (and I have to wait), is it a bug or did I do something wrong here
machare
16-01-13, 18:14
The underlying Linux OS needs to have GPT support added. It would take a while to watch 3TB of recordings!
kallestorp
16-01-13, 19:15
thank you for your answer.
I dont know what it is or how I get GPT support in the linux os but it rules out the bug and the doing something wrong.I agree that 3Tb is a lot but the prices arent that steep anymore So I thought why not.
Clabs
16-01-13, 19:24
Looks like 3TB may need to be partitioned into 2 smaller partitions.

See here: http://www.world-of-satellite.com/showthread.php?15267-3tb-hard-drive
Rob van der Does
16-01-13, 19:29
I think the old kernels of the VU's don't support >2TB.
On ET's this might be fine.
kallestorp
16-01-13, 19:49
Bit of a bummer. I mean VU ultimo has not exactly been around very long. So partitioning it is I suppose. Thanks for your replies. At least I know how to go forward
Clabs
16-01-13, 20:01
Let us know how you get on mate.
kallestorp
16-01-13, 21:01
Question for Rob. Do kernels get updated or is this somehow hardware related:confused:
Rob van der Does
16-01-13, 21:13
Updating the kernel must be done by the manufacturer, as the drivers must be compiled against that kernel version (and the drivers are closed source, so we can't do that).
kallestorp
17-01-13, 00:11
Duidelijk.Dan zal ik daar eens vragen. thanks again