Recent content by rodp

Hi All, Firstly, I confess I am a little paranoid. but... How can I tell if my HDD is checking itself regularly? The table in the Disk Diagnostics section appears to be all offline / manual stuff but should it show up other more regular tests that the HDD does itself? (I could have sworn that...

Stats are back and working now. :) Current stats below. 120 hours of error free running - let's hope it will continue now. However I think it is time to see what dual drive NAS drives are going for a good price this Black Friday! Let me ask a quesiton about that in a different post...

Hmmm, I thought I had updated it but maybe not (I assume you are talking about Webif). Let me update that! :) Is there an easy way to find out the difference between the two version?

Thanks /df, that's great, understand that now.

In the command window I do: smartctl -t short \dev\sdb then a wait a minute and then check the log to check it's run smartctl -H /dev/sdb...

doh! found this: https://myhumax.org/forum/topic/hdd-test So this method to test the HDD can't be used for a 1 / 2 TB HDD. PItty. I have put it into standy and powered up again What is the process to execute the Smart test in the webif command line / diagnostics menu whilst the unit is...

Hi All, Just picking up methods to initiate a HDD test... I was curious to try this method out to test the HDD without doing webif / telnet stuff. I assumed it would do a short test but it's now more than an hour and seems to be stuck at about 95% (it reached this wihtin a couple of minutes)...

Do you always have to enter maintenace mode to run fixdisk to sort problems out? For the time being I've turned off timeslip / tsr thing as wanted to ensure that area was fully checked too.

Checking finally done and various points in the log i am not familiar with such as: 1, Reconciling multiply-claimed blocks (There are 7 inodes containing multiply-claimed blocks.) 2, has 7 multiply-claimed block(s), shared with 1 file(s): 3, Pass 5: Checking group summary information Block...

I came across the below thread about skyhawk hdd back from 2020 so thought i would reply... 4 years down the line after buying a 2tb skyhawk around sept 2020, I've just got my first group of bad sectors. However my humax seems to be very hung up about it as the whole system was unresponsive...

Have now run Fix-flash-packages and so will see if reinstalling things (which I believe this command does?) improves things

Hi All, I've had occasional crashes/reboots, the latest was tonight half was through recording radio (bbc radio 1). This time I was on channel 250 (red button) about to turn the tv off and noticed that it rebooted / restarted. Webif showed up a message saying that it had crashed. So I chose...

Just been reading around, would i / could I use rsync? Is there any UI i can use or is this just command prompt for the humax? Not entirely sure how I would write the command in order to point to the usb drive. Thanks

Thanks for the replies. The recordings are all sd quality and pre decoded. So i would have thought it would simply be just doing a transfer process, ie more than 2mb/s transfer speed. I hear your point about 0.5mb/s rate but I'm just wondering if there is a way to transfer files faster, eg via...

Hi All, I'm unable to download various .ts files without experiencing some form of drop out along the way due to my location and signal strength on occasions. I'm aware some ftp servers can resume downloads meaning i might then be able to down the files (eventually) without having to keep on...