Fitting Seagate 1TB drive

[Bogbody]

Today I fitted a new hard drive to my Foxsat_HDR.
This hard drive: .....

Seagate SkyHawk 1TB SATA III 3.5" HDD - ST1000VX005

Enormous 1TB HDD Drive Capacity. Perfect 5900RPM Disk Speed for Storing Music, Mfg Code: ST1000VX005

www.cclonline.com

Fitted Ok, booted up, formatted via the Humax menu and so far is working fine. Its quiet!
Did a custom firmware re-install and discovered that Nowsters settop patch is no longer available - whoops - who should have cloned the drive!

The 320 gig Seagate pipeline drive originally fitted, was also a model that auto-senses the interface speed, so the new 1TB just worked.

I'm currently copying various films back onto the new hard drive.

Now, what about settop patch?

 

[MartinLiddle]

Now, what about settop patch?

Try https://hummy.tv/forum/threads/useful-links-for-the-foxsat-hdr-customised-firmware.3330/

 

[Bogbody]

Ah -- alas, it's not listed there. :-(

 

[Luke]

Ah -- alas, it's not listed there. :-(

Settop Patch 4.0.9utc is listed there. Which settop patch are you after?

 

[MartinLiddle]

Ah -- alas, it's not listed there. :-(

Try again. For me it is listed after Media & File Server Bundle Part 6.

 

[Bogbody]

So it is .. . How the f£%& did I miss that!!!

 

[MartinLiddle]

So it is .. . How the f£%& did I miss that!!!

No worries. We all make mistakes, me more than most these days.

 

[Black Hole]

Just out of curiosity:

• Isn't Nowster's Patch a firmware patch?
  
  
• If so, why would you need to apply it again?

 

[Bogbody]

Well, just put it down to another Glorious Bogbody Screw Up (GBSU). I'm good at them.
Basicaly the Foxsat got stuck in a loop and kept asking to instal the full UI. It all started to work again after a reinstall of the CF from USB - so (in my obviously mistaken) belief needing Nowsters settop patch.

Yes..... I was wrong, wrong.... wrong

 

[prpr]

Isn't Nowster's Patch a firmware patch?

No. It's a patch that gets applied to a copy of the Humax settop executable which is originally in ROM, but obviously gets created on the hard disk when patched. The disk version is then run instead of the ROM version.

so (in my obviously mistaken) belief needing Nowsters settop patch.

You may have needed it, depending on whether the CF stuff got deleted from the hard disk or not.

 

[Black Hole]

The disk version is then run instead of the ROM version.

That's neat, I wonder how they managed to do that pre-CF (or wasn't it pre-CF - I'm hazy on the chronology).

 

[Bogbody]

No. It's a patch that gets applied to a copy of the Humax settop executable which is originally in ROM, but obviously gets created on the hard disk when patched. The disk version is then run instead of the ROM version.

You may have needed it, depending on whether the CF stuff got deleted from the hard disk or not.

I fitted a new, blank hard drive --- so I did need it.

 

[prpr]

I wonder how they managed to do that pre-CF (or wasn't it pre-CF - I'm hazy on the chronology).

They didn't. It's post-CF.