exfat package on HDR-FOX T2 customised firmware

[paultry]

Hi, I've just installed the HDR_FOX_T2_1.03.12_mod_3.13 (horizontal tuner sockets), then the full web interface, then the exfat package. I formatted a 3GB flash drive as exFAT (32kB units i.e. default) on Windows 10 and copied a video file on it whilst on Windows 10. It's read by Windows 10, and by Linux Mint. When I plug it into the HDR-FOX T2 I can see it via the Web-IF in 'browse media files', but if I go to the official interface it isn't there. It's had a full turn off/on with the switch at the back after putting it in standby. This seems wrong, surely the exFAT package is supposed to make it read/write in the official interface? Any help much appreciated, I'm new to Humax custom firmware.

 

[Black Hole]

From the relevant thread:

Note that this package does not add exFAT support to your system, only provides a simple method for you to do it yourself. This is because there are licence and patent issues around exFAT and if we were to make the compiled exFAT code available in the repository then we would be in violation of at least some of them.

There are two main methods for finding information about any particular package: the wiki (link at the top of the page), and my Index (pinned at the top of the CF forum). Obviously, the discussion thread is more verbose but more likely to reflect the current state, and you can add a question.

Update: Belay that. That's the old exfat-builder package. Checking the discussion mentions there is a subsequent exfat package which just does it, but there are comments towards the end of the aforementioned thread which might be applicable.

More relevant discussion here: https://hummy.tv/forum/threads/is-there-a-way-to-read-exfat-sd-usb-cards.10726/

However, personally, I would settle for NTFS (ntfs-3g package).

 

[paultry]

From the relevant thread:



There are two main methods for finding information about any particular package: the wiki (link at the top of the page), and my Index (pinned at the top of the CF forum). Obviously, the discussion thread is more verbose but more likely to reflect the current state, and you can add a question.

Update: Belay that. That's the old exfat-builder package. Checking the discussion mentions there is a subsequent exfat package which just does it, but there are comments towards the end of the aforementioned thread which might be applicable.

More relevant discussion here: https://hummy.tv/forum/threads/is-there-a-way-to-read-exfat-sd-usb-cards.10726/

However, personally, I would settle for NTFS (ntfs-3g package).

Thanks for the info, I had read through it all previously, but now re-read it. I took the advice re partitions from https://hummy.tv/forum/threads/exfat-builder-helps-add-exfat-support-to-the-humax.3242/post-92279 and in my ignorance tried various combos in Linux (Gparted and/or Disks) and Windows 10 (Windows Explorer right click format/Disk Management). At one stage it was working, but it didn't survive a switch off-on of the HDR-FOX T2. I can't replicate that. I even used telnet, which for me really took some doing:

humax# /mod/sbin/mkexfatfs /dev/sda1
mkexfatfs 1.2.6
Creating... done.
Flushing... done.
File system created successfully

and it still didn't show up in Web-IF or the UI. Each time I did a back-switch-reboot (ensuring the internal HDD was parked each time). I did some of this with both a 3GB flash drive and a 250GB HDD in a USB enclosure, so it doesn't seem to be the devices. I really don't know what's going wrong and am not learned enough in these specifics to think more time spent would be rewarded.

I originally chose exFAT because of it's alleged compatability with Windows, MAC and now Linux (the [exfat-builder] thread was before Microshifty published the exFAT stanadard AFAIK). There was no reason to suppose the exfat package wouldn't work for me and that the ntfs-3g package would. Especially as NTFS is still a closed specification.

I've switched to NTFS with ntfs-3g package and it's working well so far. Thank God and The Hummy Devs. Thanks again for the steer.

 

[Black Hole]

I've switched to NTFS with ntfs-3g package and it's working well so far.

Yes, we've never had any trouble with NTFS. The HDR-FOX can read (not write) NTFS without CF.