Recent content by John1212

Yes I assumed people would understand that 'external' meant via the USB interface. Via the internal SATA interface either the hardware or system must be detecting the disk as Gen1 and not revealing the disk to the user interface for formatting when it is only Gen1 capable, hence the quotes...

Old thread but I have just come up against the same issue. My HDRFOX-T2 disk started giving errors and I had an old (seemingly identical) ST3500312CS 500Gbyte drive which I thought I would use. The drive worked fine in Windows and also as an external USB drive on the Humax but refused to be...

P.S. As the steady state for the circuit is for the transistor to be turned off, if you cut the link as a temporary test that should restore the "HDD 12V supply" if the FET is OK as its Gate will no longer be grounded. (Cut the wire link with the power off to avoid shorting anything)

(See an earlier post in this thread showing the schematic for this circuit) I think I can see what they have done comparing to my Hummy. When they removed the old cap they have moved the cap up the board and reattached it to the ground plane which is 0 (zero) volts and not where the cap should...

Indeed I have looked in the past and have a number installed including as I said SYSMON which is not standard and fix-disk, disable-ota, disable-dso, zeroconf etc etc. However, I probably fall into the category of people who only look in depth to find a solution to a problem they have. (My quote...

Ah, OK thanks. It was line 190 - the newer disks do not have this line so perhaps won't get reported? I assumed wrongly it was getting this from smartctl. (i.e. 194 Temperature_Celsius -O---K 33 100 100 000

This is sort of linked but let me know if you would prefer a new thread. I am starting to notice things I may have already known but subconsciously ignored. My machines had the faulty 4u7 caps causing one to constantly reboot. This and another machine both had failing hard drives which seem to...

Thank you all for the above advice and information. It had never occured to me that the copied file was actually intact with it's encryption (I just had never tried copying an encrypted file and then decrypting it) - I had just assumed it was gibberish. Understand about keeping the 4 files...

Initially I was assuming that the Linux I was using was not completely compatible with the Humax disk layout as I was having problems running smartctl, fsck etc but I now think it was because the disk is so messed up. What I did see is that the files are all still there on the My Video partition...

Thank you all for your write up on this issue. I have three of these boxes. Box 1. Doing a retune of the machine on reboot it kept cycling as you describe. Unfortunately at this point I had not seen this thread. Being unable to boot the box I removed the HDD and put it in a Linux machine and...

Time permitting I'll take a closer look at the units to see if I can spot any obvious physical differences / part number changes.

It is possible no-one will have it but I thought it worth asking the question here in case someone in the past had managed to acquire a copy from Humax and still has it around. I have asked the question of humax support and just noticed I had an email back and the person responding says :-...

Hi, Does anyone have a copy of firmware v1.00.27 (loader a4.40) that they could let me have a copy of. I stupidly overwrote one of my boxes with ver1.00.26 and now it is not possible to tune any channels on it. I kicked myself round the room a few times and then searched for the right version...

Final part of the replacement hard disk story. Seagate have replaced the drive with a "Certified Repaired HDD" - not new - but it does have an almost 2 year warranty until 27-Mar-2016. Same model as the old one - ST1000VM002-1CT162. Have installed it in my spare HDR-FOX T2 - CF disk diagnostics...

Oops hadn't really intended to - more haste less speed. Offending gibberish removed.