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Thanks for the link with helpful info Black Hole. I'll do that.

Thanks all. Black Hole and Trev - yes, after rebooting the router it started working again with the old cable in the same router port. Very strange that swapping to another cable also worked *before* the reboot. Thanks for the suggestions about cable termination etc. Given my lack of manual...

Thanks for your replies Trev, Mymsman and Black Hole. When it wasn't working I couldn't connect via WebIf either, though I didn't try telnet. Everything else that's connected to the same router is fine. I think there must be an intermittent fault with the Ethernet cable. When I tried using a...

When I press the TV Portal button, I'm now getting the above message (which I first started getting a couple of years or so ago). In Settings > System > Internet Setting > Configure LAN, it just says "Network disconnected". I was able to use the TV Portal fine and to connect via WebIF right...

MartinLiddle, thanks very much - that's good to know, I have 1.03.12. prpr - yes indeed, that's why I've ordered the 2TB Seagate. Fingers crossed that the current drive will last until I can replace it. Thank you all again for your help.

Thanks af123 and MontysEvilTwin for the suggestions on drives and Black Hole for feeding the experiences back. Sounds like Seagate is more straightforward. My hard drive is definitely dying, after the fixdisk when I connected to it via a browser, I got the message: "There appear to be some...

The fixdisk finally finished. No more constant rebooting with aerial reconnected! Old recordings still intact. Have scheduled a test recording for tomorrow morning just to see. Fingers crossed it'll last a few more days. I'll follow prpr's advice and am getting a new 2 TB disk (Seagate...

Thanks Trev. I prefer a good PVR. Not everything's available on catchup. I considered YouView but the continued unavailability of padding is a killer for me (I appreciate you can just record the next thing too, but I only want a few minutes' overrun, not a whole programme's worth). I've decided...

Interesting, I've had both Seagate and WD drives (external) die on me, but the Seagate died a few months after I bought it while the WD had lasted for years. I suppose everyone's experience is different. I'll look for the WD equivalent and have a think about which (price will probably be a...

Thank you prpr, I'll let it run. My device has a large hard disk (500GB or possibly even 1TB I think) so we'll see how long it takes! I've already installed Putty but thanks for the tip about Webshell, which I'll note for the future. I was following the instructions in...

I tried N and got the following, I'm not pressing anything further, it seems to be going "y" by itself (after I tried Y to attempt to repair the partition table). It's sequentially working its way through "Error reading block [N]" Ignore error? yes Force rewrite? yes Then going to N+1, then N+2...

Hmm. It fixed an error at LBA 262696. However, it's now saying "Error at LBA 0", I keep pressing Y, it says "re-writing sector 0: succeeded", but after the short self-test it keeps going back to "Error at LBA 0". So now I'm stuck in another loop, of "Error at LBA 0"! I was going to press N to...

Fix-disk is running now. Thank you very much to whoever wrote the Telnet page on the wiki. One small observation, it may need updating as it no longer shows "#humax" but a more detailed menu, I typed "maint" to put it into maintenance mode. Didn't know the options available so I chose None and...

I've installed the full web interface and on connecting to my device via my PC web browser, got this message: !! WARNING !! There appear to be some hardware problems with the internal hard disk on this device. Disk realloc sector count is: 1160 Disk pending sector count is: 27 Disk offline...

I'd retried the upgrade before your last reply Trev, and after reconnecting my network cable I have my TV Portal working again, when for ages it wasn't showing anything! The portal only shows BBC, YouTube etc (I guess 5, 4, etc aren't doing apps for this), but it's great to have iPlayer on...