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    Black Hole replied to the thread Failed recordings - and more!.
    It really doesn't matter to me, it only matters to you. You don't need excuses, you are your own boss. Life is more important than TV.
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    Black Hole replied to the thread Failed recordings - and more!.
    I realise you seemed to be happy with the outcome of the fixdisk, but I don't understand how the file system can be intact after an...
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    Black Hole replied to the thread Failed recordings - and more!.
    If that's a Platinum P41, the 1,200 TBW* spec makes it suitable as a PVR drive with reservations – with a M.2 to SATA to M.2 adapter...
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    Black Hole replied to the thread Failed recordings - and more!.
    There is no evidence the HDD is failing, just the file system has been grossly corrupted (or badly formatted in the first place). File...
  • Black Hole
    Black Hole replied to the thread Failed recordings - and more!.
    It takes about 2 minutes just to load into xed! I have bad news: the HDD might look healthy from a hardware point of view (although the...
  • Black Hole
    Black Hole replied to the thread Failed recordings - and more!.
    You seem to expect things to be instant. When moving large amounts of data around, one needs to be patient. As you uploaded the raw...
  • Black Hole
    Assume? I did say "by some miracle", but until you conduct the experiment you don't know for sure. Nope. Would that be NOR or NAND...
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    Black Hole replied to the thread Failed recordings - and more!.
    What you were seeing there was the internal workings of a web download, not the actual file (or file set). You were trying to do things...
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    Black Hole replied to the thread Failed recordings - and more!.
    It should be three times – there are three partitions on the HDD, each is dealt with in turn. The last (and largest) one is the...
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    Yes, at least in the short to medium term. Attempts to resurrect the failed unit will be a long and detailed process of...
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    Black Hole replied to the thread Failed recordings - and more!.
    I suppose all that's really needed is the summary report in the last couple of dozen lines, but my logs are only a few kB each. That...
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    Black Hole replied to the thread Failed recordings - and more!.
    Why? Ah, do they have .0.log, .1.log, .2.log? Attaching files allows .txt and zip. You can either rename the log file to .txt, or you...
  • Black Hole
    Black Hole replied to the thread Failed recordings - and more!.
    That's just the WebIF alerting you of a change in the reallocated sector count since last acknowledged, so I wouldn't worry about that...
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    Black Hole replied to the thread Replacement HDD not detected.
    That's what I'm quibbling about. If a SATA controller isn't "gen1" compatible, it's not a case of detection – it simply won't fall back...
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    Black Hole replied to the thread Replacement HDD not detected.
    External drives?? As an external drive, you would be operating it via a USB to SATA interface. The Humax hardware/firmware is...
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