Hard Disc Initialise

[filmman]

Hello,

I am trying to initialise an external USB 2.5inch Seagate 320gb portable drive. When I try to initialise it an error comes up after a few moments stating "Unable to initialize harddisk Error: Create movie folder failed". Have booted pc into gparted and formatted the disc in Ext3 but the same thing happens when I return it to the Solo. Am using VTI Vu+ Solo image and wondering what is wrong. Any help would be much appreciated.

Thank you
filmman

[SLOTH]

Hi mate have you tried formatting in Fat32 or ntfs ?
cheers
sloth

[filmman]

Thanks for quick reply, originally tried it in fat32 and got same thing, not tried ntfs as I thought it wasn't recognised by this system.
filmman.

[SLOTH]

Hi again .
ha its just come to me ...have you tried formatting etc before fitting it ...i read some were this is needed with some hard drives .
Sloth

[filmman]

Yes have formatted it before fitting Fat32. Ext3 and now ntfs - the latter messed the box up but manged to restore from back-up thankfully..

[SLOTH]

Hi mate ...have you looked in here "http://www.vuplus-support.co.uk/showthread.php?860-Please-post-your-working-brand-of-internal-SATA-HDD-and-size" to see if its known to work or to be a problem ?
cheers
Sloth
was it working before you tried to fit it to the Vu + ?

[filmman]

Yes the drive was working with a Technomate before - the link you gave was for internal drives in the Duo however I did look through and my external drive is not mentioned - thanks for your help.
filmman

[SLOTH]

Sorry i couldnt be more help mate
Sloth

[Sicilian]

Try initialising with the latest official image 4.9, then re-flash with VTI image.

[filmman]

Hi Sicilian, thank you for your advice - tried your suggestion but when back to VTI and try to record it asks to initialize again and I eventually get the message "Unable to initialize harddisk Error: Mount failed.

Any other suggestions?

Thanks in advance
filmman.

[filmman]

Hello again, have somehow managed to get the drive formatted now and changed the path of default movie location to the usb drive and it is recording to there. At the moment timeshift wont work and in the path section cannot change the location of time shift from hdd which I assume is the internal flash. This is obviously not large enough for timeshift to work, is there a way to change this to the usb drive?
Thanks
filmman.

[paul362]

Have you tried deleting all the partitions on the drive and also don,t give it a name via the pc, then plug it into the VU and see if it picks it up then if it does try to initialize it then.

[filmman]

Hello paul362,

Thank you for your suggestion, I now have the drive working ok on the Solo but not certain how I did it - still cannot get timeshift to work though....

regards,

filmman

[Sicilian]

@ fileman have you checked the 'Recording paths' settings?

[filmman]

Yes Sicilian the paths are correct for default movie, instant record etc (/media/usb/movie/) but the path for Timeshift is set at /media/hdd/ which I assume is the internal flash, is this the correct path as it cannot be changed. When I press yellow on remote I get Timeshift not possible - annoying fault.

Regards
filmman