The WD I mentioned is a BLACK and it does say recommended for PVR, I have been reading through past posts and it seems there was was a reason not to have the model with 'auto head parking' but that seems to not be on the models for some years. Maybe I'll just get what is best offer.
Asking around on Hardware forums .... been advised that buying a WD HDD is much better (on all fronts) that a Seagate.
Better reliability, 3 yr warranty to quote " WD20EURX AV-GP Specifically built to last in high temperature always-on streaming digital audio/video environments such as...
Just a simple (novice Q)
I understood you can put a new HDD into PVR (running CF) and it takes care of all formatting & setup.
Why the need to change partition .... keen to know
Is that procedure documented somewhere ? ..... done plenty of HDD swap out & re-partitioning on PC's but do not have an understanding of HDD on the Humax boxes..
Well that was quick & simple - that worked Web i/f now working.
Thanks for that.
I finally managed to get to SMART Diagnostics it shows :
There are potential hardware problems with the internal hard disk on this device.
Disk realloc sector count is: 221
Disk pending sector count is: 96
Disk...
Sorry missed that ... I just run and it did reinstall:
humax# ( PATH=/bin; opkg list-installed | /bin/cut -d' ' -f1| while read -r pkg; do echo opkg --force-reinstall "$pkg"; done )
opkg --force-reinstall anacron
opkg --force-reinstall at
opkg --force-reinstall auto-schedule-restore
opkg...
The list looks like 29 do not have matching control & list pairs
humax# ls /mod/var/opkg/info
anacron.conffiles lamemp3.control stripts.list
anacron.control lamemp3.list tcpfix.control
anacron.list libreadline.control...
The WD I mentioned is a BLACK and it does say recommended for PVR, I have been reading through past posts and it seems there was was a reason not to have the model with 'auto head parking' but that seems to not be on the models for some years. Maybe I'll just get what is best offer.
Asking around on Hardware forums .... been advised that buying a WD HDD is much better (on all fronts) that a Seagate.
Better reliability, 3 yr warranty to quote " WD20EURX AV-GP Specifically built to last in high temperature always-on streaming digital audio/video environments such as...
Just a simple (novice Q)
I understood you can put a new HDD into PVR (running CF) and it takes care of all formatting & setup.
Why the need to change partition .... keen to know
Is that procedure documented somewhere ? ..... done plenty of HDD swap out & re-partitioning on PC's but do not have an understanding of HDD on the Humax boxes..
Well that was quick & simple - that worked Web i/f now working.
Thanks for that.
I finally managed to get to SMART Diagnostics it shows :
There are potential hardware problems with the internal hard disk on this device.
Disk realloc sector count is: 221
Disk pending sector count is: 96
Disk...
Sorry missed that ... I just run and it did reinstall:
humax# ( PATH=/bin; opkg list-installed | /bin/cut -d' ' -f1| while read -r pkg; do echo opkg --force-reinstall "$pkg"; done )
opkg --force-reinstall anacron
opkg --force-reinstall at
opkg --force-reinstall auto-schedule-restore
opkg...
The list looks like 29 do not have matching control & list pairs
humax# ls /mod/var/opkg/info
anacron.conffiles lamemp3.control stripts.list
anacron.control lamemp3.list tcpfix.control
anacron.list libreadline.control...
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