difficulties in external hdd initiation

[alrufayyig]

hello to all.....

i recently had my solo and first time to deal with it , could you help and provide me with clear steps to mount my old external hdd.
i tried to format in ntsf and also by fat32 and delete partitions without good results

when i tried to initiate from remote this message appear ( creating partitions failed )

when i asked to check file system by remote ( fsci problem )

i connected via telnet and tried to follow your steps in other post i have this message ( invalid argument)

what should i do ? and thanks in advance ....

[hansham]

Is it a network HDD on ethernet or a USB drive plugged in the USB port?

I saw this on another forum:
... although i formatted the whole hard drive, ie sda,... i had to format individual partition too to get it mount.. sda2...
To save time to those having similar problems.... i did the following with telnet:

1) format hard drive: mkfs.ext2 /dev/sda

2) create 2 partitions with fdisk: fdisk /dev/sda
press m to see help, (google to see how to use fdisk)
w to save and exit

3) to check if u created the partitions correctly : fdisk -l

4) format partition sda2 : mkfs.ext2 /dev/sda2

5) mount /dev/sda2 /hdd

that should be it !

[stash36]

I've not bought a drive yet for my solo but will do soon.

Quick question. Does anyone know if you can use the media player (for example, to watch an mkv file on a memory stick - which works great btw) whilst you are recording a channel to the hard drive?

[stash36]

I have my drive now and have tried this, and it works!
Loving my Solo!