zekepliskin
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Hello everyone,
Longtime user of Humax kit here. I had a Foxsat HDR years ago and had the custom firmware installed, and now after moving out of the place into one where there's no satellite but a nice stable aerial on the room have dipped into using the HDR Fox T2.
Internal harddrive is already upgraded to 2TB, no issues to do that with the 1.03.12 firmware that came with the box. Already running 3.13 custom firmware, impressive piece of work that is, even more so than what was possible on the Foxsat HDR.
Now I notice that plugging in GPT drives with large capacities no longer cause the Humax to crash or boot loop if using the rear USB port now it's running custom firmware (I got it hang at the splash screen if using the front one). Specifically what I'm using at the moment is a 4TB drive with GPT, formatted with one NTFS partition, connected up by a fairly basic USB2 enclosure. Works perfectly on any other PC or Mac I choose to plug it into. However it will not mount on the Humax in any usable way, with the exception of the webif seeing gpt-drive1 and gpt-drive2 as 0 byte shares.
My first question would be, can this drive be reformatted in, say EXT3 as a single 4TB partition in GPT so the Humax can see it and use it and also mount it as a network share? If so how might I go about this?
The Very Large Hard Drive hummy.tv webpage states that using Maintenance Mode via telnet that drives over 2TB can be prepped and supported fairly easily. Elsewhere I read there's a potential maximum 16TB drive limit, which is plenty. We now have consumer 10TB drives on the market readily available from Amazon, such as a 10TB Seagate IronWolf model which although not a dedicated media type drive raises my next question. Could this 10TB drive be fitted to the HDR Fox T2, prepped in Maintenance Mode and used? Obviously I'd then want to put the drive into a PC and copy several TBs of stored content to it (stuff already recorded from my Foxsat HDR, stuff recorded by the HDR Fox T2 and things it won't play like my Blu-ray MKV backups which other streaming LAN devices could access and play) then reinsert it into the box, using it as an always on media server because copying TBs of data over USB2 would be painfully slow.
Any input here would be greatly appreciated before I start backing things up and reformatting etc in a trial an error attempt to get the box to do what I want.
As ever, a big thumbs up to everyone involved in the custom firmware project. Worth installing for so many reasons, including NFS support for streaming recorded TV shows.
Longtime user of Humax kit here. I had a Foxsat HDR years ago and had the custom firmware installed, and now after moving out of the place into one where there's no satellite but a nice stable aerial on the room have dipped into using the HDR Fox T2.
Internal harddrive is already upgraded to 2TB, no issues to do that with the 1.03.12 firmware that came with the box. Already running 3.13 custom firmware, impressive piece of work that is, even more so than what was possible on the Foxsat HDR.
Now I notice that plugging in GPT drives with large capacities no longer cause the Humax to crash or boot loop if using the rear USB port now it's running custom firmware (I got it hang at the splash screen if using the front one). Specifically what I'm using at the moment is a 4TB drive with GPT, formatted with one NTFS partition, connected up by a fairly basic USB2 enclosure. Works perfectly on any other PC or Mac I choose to plug it into. However it will not mount on the Humax in any usable way, with the exception of the webif seeing gpt-drive1 and gpt-drive2 as 0 byte shares.
My first question would be, can this drive be reformatted in, say EXT3 as a single 4TB partition in GPT so the Humax can see it and use it and also mount it as a network share? If so how might I go about this?
The Very Large Hard Drive hummy.tv webpage states that using Maintenance Mode via telnet that drives over 2TB can be prepped and supported fairly easily. Elsewhere I read there's a potential maximum 16TB drive limit, which is plenty. We now have consumer 10TB drives on the market readily available from Amazon, such as a 10TB Seagate IronWolf model which although not a dedicated media type drive raises my next question. Could this 10TB drive be fitted to the HDR Fox T2, prepped in Maintenance Mode and used? Obviously I'd then want to put the drive into a PC and copy several TBs of stored content to it (stuff already recorded from my Foxsat HDR, stuff recorded by the HDR Fox T2 and things it won't play like my Blu-ray MKV backups which other streaming LAN devices could access and play) then reinsert it into the box, using it as an always on media server because copying TBs of data over USB2 would be painfully slow.
Any input here would be greatly appreciated before I start backing things up and reformatting etc in a trial an error attempt to get the box to do what I want.
As ever, a big thumbs up to everyone involved in the custom firmware project. Worth installing for so many reasons, including NFS support for streaming recorded TV shows.
