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    HDD and USB muddled up when box powered on

    When my Zgemma H7S is powered on quite often the USB stick and the hdd are muddled up. To solve this problem I quite often have to remove the stick, reboot the box and then plug the stick in again when Vix has started.

    Is there a way that I can permanently avoid this problem perhaps by changing fstab?

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    Why you have an external HDD & USB flash drive? Can’t you just make do with the HDD?


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    Quote Originally Posted by Andy_Hazza View Post
    Why you have an external HDD & USB flash drive? Can’t you just make do with the HDD?
    Thanks for all the replies.

    The HDD is internal. I have a theory that when power is applied to the box it finds the USB stick first and makes that /media/hdd regardless of anything I do. If I stop using a USB flash drive where would I keep my epg.dat and picons?

    I could only add network drives with mount manager.

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    On other boxes i used usb stick for epg and hdd for movies.Stick up a screenshot of storage devices to make sure they are named and sized correctly.
    Are you powering off the box completely or just using remote to send to standby?

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    Mount the hdd and the stick in fstab. In this way box allways found this devices on same place.

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    Mount the hdd and the stick in fstab with UUID. In this way box allways found this devices on same place.

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    As post 3 above, Blue button > ViX > Mount manager.
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    Quote Originally Posted by machare View Post
    Thanks for all the replies.

    The HDD is internal. I have a theory that when power is applied to the box it finds the USB stick first and makes that /media/hdd regardless of anything I do. If I stop using a USB flash drive where would I keep my epg.dat and picons?

    I could only add network drives with mount manager.
    Personally I would store your epg.dat to your internal HDD and store your picons to your internal flash as this receiver has plenty of flash storage.


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    Quote Originally Posted by machare View Post
    The HDD is internal. I have a theory that when power is applied to the box it finds the USB stick first and makes that /media/hdd regardless of anything I do.
    All of the I/O buses are queried in parallel and the resulting device file names depend on the order of replies, which isn't necessarily constant. (I have a box with an internal M.2 drive and an external USB drive and it's roughly 50/50 as to which way round they show up on a reboot).
    As has been noted, use MountManager to mount them. This will mount them using UUID and then the actually ordering of device file names won't matter.
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    as Andy says .I do this for years now on my duo2 and working fine. No need for extra usb sticks
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    Quote Originally Posted by zeini View Post
    Mount the hdd and the stick in fstab with UUID. In this way box allways found this devices on same place.
    Now I know a use for UUIDs! That works fine. Thank you very much.

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    Quote Originally Posted by machare View Post
    Now I know a use for UUIDs! That works fine. Thank you very much.
    Of course you could always have used the ViX MountManager! Far simpler for most people.
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    Fine, if this is working.
    But I also think, on Zgemma H7 you don't need an USB-stick for epg and so on. Your box have 4GB Flash memory. And this is more than enough, even with 4 images on the box.

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    Quote Originally Posted by zeini View Post
    Fine, if this is working.
    But I also think, on Zgemma H7 you don't need an USB-stick for epg and so on. Your box have 4GB Flash memory. And this is more than enough, even with 4 images on the box.
    Not advisable to store epg.dat to the flash on any receiver.


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    Vu+ Solo 2 with 1TB HDD 'White Edition', 2x DVB-S2 tuners
    Mut@nt HD2400 with 1TB HDD, 4x DVB-S2 tuners
    Fixed 28.2E Technomate 65cm Mesh Satellite Dish with Inverto Unicable II/JESS LNB and Inverto Unicable Splitter
    Fixed 28.2E Sky Zone 1 45cm Satellite Dish with Octo LNB
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