Recent content by pomwombat

@MontysEvilTwin Thanks. I didn't recall it taking very long when I first got the Humax. A recent mkfs on a standard Linux box, for a 2TB disk, was IIRC a 20-30 minute job. @prpr I agree that the badblocks program reported lots of bad blocks, but I'm pretty sure that there aren't actually...

@prpr If those were the two options, then your logic is sound. There is also the option that the disk isn't toast, but it acts toasty within the Humax, and the Humax doesn't have the tools to un-toast it. If it could be recovered outside the box, *and* the Humax could happily host a new disk...

BTW... When I choose the option to "Test disk" from the Humax on-screen menus, the system reboots. I haven't yet asked it to reformat, as I still hold out hope that I can save the recordings. However, if I want to return it, I guess I'm going to have to perform that step. Even though I...

You both hit the conundrum there. If it were outside warranty, the disk would have already been in the PC. But it is inside warranty, so ought to go back. But there are two little gotchas: - The recordings are a "nice to have" but by no means essential; some of them are still being...

Ta. I tried that this evening: It looks like it starts listing every block number, until it gets to 29311179, and then ends "Killed". I didn't kill it though. I tried a second time. It has reached 29343710 so far, but stopped outputting anything. Now it gives the appearance of having crashed...

Oh, and should this thread be moved over to the CF forum now? I guess I've moved a little away from the standard firmware.

I've done an extra bit of tracing, by looking at the fix-disk script. It looks like the system believes /dev/sda exists as a disk - it is present in /sys/block, and /dev/block/sda includes entries for sda1, sda2 and sda3; all with reasonable size and start values. It thinks it is a PCI device...

Ta. I've been in with the CLI, and taken a look. The whole system behaves *almost* like /dev/sda doesn't exist. The disk does power up, and spin up. - "fdisk -l /dev/sda" returns an error: humax# fdisk -l /dev/sda fdisk: can't open '/dev/sda': Input/output error - e2fsck returns errors...

Hmmm. That didn't go too well, for a first effort: Running /bin/fix-disk Custom firmware version 2.22 Checking disk sda Unmounted /dev/sda1 Partition /dev/sda2 is already unmounted Partition /dev/sda3 is already unmounted /bin/fix-disk: line 511: arithmetic syntax error Press return to...

Thanks guys. I'll see how it goes over the next couple of days...

Hi all, I'm new here, gradually evolving the family PVR environment from a Toppy with MyStuff over to a Fox T2 with customised firmware, but I'm only partly into the process... Our HDR Fox T2 was running a little strangely last night... playback was suddenly very jerky, and the box was...