v+ultimo hard drive disappeard

[thfccambs]

For some reason my hard drive has gone as in not showing at all on my v+ultimo?

Was fine today as ive been watching some recordings on it.

When i go into settings it says no HDD showing?

Any ideas how to get it back showing, hopefully without losing everything.

Image im using is Blackhole at the moment.

Thanks

[judge]

Sorry, no idea about BH, but chances are you haven't lost anyting on the HDD unless you formatted it/initialised it/deleted stuff yourself.
Sounds more like it's just lost its mount point for what ever reason.
Did you mount any other drive/usb stick today? Tried rebooting the box since?
How was the drive originally mounted?
I'd guess a fresh flash would bring it back if you're not into editing & figuring out mount points & options in text files on the box.

[thfccambs]

Judge thanks for the reply.

Tried reboot and nothing different has been changed, its a weird one.

Just says No HDD found or HDD not initialized.

Dont want to lose everything on it.

[Larry-G]

as judge says the data is likely still there just the mount point has gone, so try a reflash and see if that brings it back in.

[Rob van der Does]

And don't initialise the HDD; that would definitely wipe your recordings.

[pooface]

if you telnet in to the box, try issuing this command:


ls -lh /dev/sd*

You should get similar output:


root@vuultimo:~# ls -lh /dev/sd*
brw-rw-r-- 1 root root 8, 0 Jan 1 1970 /dev/sda
brw-rw-r-- 1 root root 8, 1 Jan 1 1970 /dev/sda1
brw-rw-r-- 1 root root 8, 16 Jan 1 1970 /dev/sdb
brw-rw-r-- 1 root root 8, 17 Jan 1 1970 /dev/sdb1

Now, try issuing mount command:


root@vuultimo:~# mount
rootfs on / type rootfs (rw)
ubi0:rootfs on / type ubifs (rw,sync,relatime)
devtmpfs on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,relatime,size=137556k,nr_inodes=34389,mode=755 )
proc on /proc type proc (rw,relatime)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,relatime)
tmpfs on /media type tmpfs (rw,relatime,size=64k)
/dev/sda1 on /media/hdd type ext4 (rw,relatime,barrier=1,data=ordered)
/dev/sdb1 on /media/usb type ext4 (rw,relatime,barrier=1,data=ordered)
tmpfs on /var/volatile type tmpfs (rw,relatime)
usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw,relatime)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,relatime,gid=5,mode=620)
nfsd on /proc/fs/nfsd type nfsd (rw,relatime)

As you can see, I have the hdd and usb both mounted. You can see sda1 is the hdd (partition 1, sda is the whole disk), and sdb1 is the usb partition...

List your outputs so we can see...

[thfccambs]

Pooface thanks for reply but i'd already stuck a new image (vix) on.

HD is al back and haven't lost a thing, thanks for all the replys.

[thfccambs]

Had the same problem, HDD was just gone, reflashed and did what Pooface said.


root@vuultimo:~# ls -lh /dev/sd*
brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 0 Jan 1 1970 /dev/sda
brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 1 Jan 1 1970 /dev/sda1
root@vuultimo:~# mount
rootfs on / type rootfs (rw)
ubi0:rootfs on / type ubifs (rw,sync,relatime)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,relatime)
tmpfs on /var/volatile type tmpfs (rw,relatime,mode=755)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,relatime)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,relatime,size=2048k,mode=755)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,relatime,gid=5,mode=620)
usbdevfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw,relatime)
/dev/mtdblock2 on /boot type jffs2 (rw,relatime)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,relatime,mode=777)
/dev/sda1 on /media/hdd type ext3 (rw,relatime,errors=continue,barrier=1,data=w
iteback)
automount(pid2146) on /autofs type autofs (rw,relatime,fd=4,pgrp=2146,timeout=5
minproto=2,maxproto=4,indirect)
nfsd on /proc/fs/nfsd type nfsd (rw,relatime)
root@vuultimo:~#