Recent content by James S

Reallocated sectors was 1431 and has now risen to 1768. We also had the first 'lock up' on playback.

Nice tip Black Hole! Just installed auto-unprotect having tried to test out watching something I'd just transferred and finding WMP won't play it.

Hi af123, thanks for the more detailed explanation of what I was seeing, I assumed I was in the bash shell as the up/down/left/right arrows work like in the typical bash shell! I'm learning more and more about this operating environment by the hour at the moment. With no usb stick inserted...

Thanks for that link Ezra Pound, I had tried a few commands that I'd normally expect to be in Unix and couldn't find them, having that Wiki page showing what is installed is perfect.

Just gone in via putty into the root shell and using top I can't see any obvious process which is the HDD process running. Its pretty fun actually having a look round this....never thought under the black shiney box I'd find a heavily customised Linux system running. Thanks to hummy.tv forum for...

I can't be sure but I think the HDD disk check is not completing. What seems to be happening the HDD disk check runs fairly quickly as normal then on one of the tests the progress bar stops moving at about 75% through and then only moves very slowly, in fact I can't see the bar move but the...

Hard disk check still running, every few minutes the little 'swirl' indicating progress moves round very slightly....I think I'll leave it running overnight to see if it completes or not.

Hi af123, haven't had a chance to test playback yet but have kicked off a quick hard disk test....which has hung about 75% through. I'll leave it for about another 10 minutes to see if it ever ends or not. I'm interested in your comment the "The output you posted earlier indicates that the...

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thanks Black Hole, I'll just wait until after Strictly Come Dancing before risking anything that might be disruptive or I may not live to get to use telnet on my hummy.....

lets try posting an image again...Hurrah! I can post a photo......any suggestions what I do now to see what the problem is :)

Have the custom firmware on and took at guess at running the Diagnostic for the HDD...

Thanks Af123, I was surpised when searching this forum and using google search I couldn't find the Error Code: 10....maybe I've got a 'special' Humax box! I will have a look at the custom firmware, thanks for the advice. James

Had exactly the same problems as the first post in this thread, suddenly new recordings were not playing back properly, picture freezing, so I've run the HDD Test program and I've got. "HDD Test Fail. You may recover the HDD through Format Storage. [Error code: 10]" Anyone know what the...