Stuttering recordings (sometimes)

[ChrisRed]

Hi, just lately I've been having a few problems with my HDR. I can watch SD recordings over the net just fine, but I am having trouble watching recently recorded shows. Often, the thing will drop out every few seconds - it looks just like bad freeview reception recorded - but if I reboot the HDR, the same recording will play back perfectly. I'm running the custom firmware, so its possible I could have something running in the background. I have auto-unprotect running, but I wouldn't expect that to take very long.

Has anyone had this and fixed it? I initially suspected that the drive was on the way out or needing reformatting, but since it gets fixed by a reboot I'm not so sure. I don't record a lot, so I haven't been playing anything while another recording is going on, but chase play is working fine. It might be related to HD content, since I normally record the HD versions if possible. I suppose it could be some kind of database index or file system scan going on in the background.

Any help will be gratefully appreciated.

 

[Ezra Pound]

It's unlikely to be a problem caused by any of the custom firmware packages, although some users have stopped running the Sysmon package. I understand your saying you don't think it is a HDD problem but I would still run Fix-disk from Maintenance mode If I were you

 

[Black Hole]

I strongly suspect this is indeed a disk problem. Make sure you have the latest CF (2.16/1.02.32 or 2.16/1.02.20), access the Telnet menu (see Wiki HERE - click, the pass code is your Humax PIN - 0000 by default), use the menu to reboot to maintenance mode, re-access Telnet and run fix-disk.

 

[ChrisRed]

Thanks, I will have a go this evening and report back

 

[ChrisRed]

Ok, that's all done. No errors mentioned, but the FS was modified in both instances. Fingers crossed

1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate POSR-- 30007682 111 099 006 Pre-fail Always -
3 Spin_Up_Time PO---- 0 097 097 000 Pre-fail Always -
4 Start_Stop_Count -O--CK 5366 095 095 020 Old_age Always -
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct PO--CK 0 100 100 036 Pre-fail Always -
7 Seek_Error_Rate POSR-- 77920754 078 060 030 Pre-fail Always -
9 Power_On_Hours -O--CK 6325 093 093 000 Old_age Always -
10 Spin_Retry_Count PO--C- 0 100 100 097 Pre-fail Always -
12 Power_Cycle_Count -O--CK 2683 098 098 020 Old_age Always -
184 End-to-End_Error -O--CK 0 100 100 099 Old_age Always -
187 Reported_Uncorrect -O--CK 0 100 100 000 Old_age Always -
188 Command_Timeout -O--CK 0 100 100 000 Old_age Always -
189 High_Fly_Writes -O-RCK 0 100 100 000 Old_age Always -
190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel -O---K 49 051 044 045 Old_age Always In_the_past
194 Temperature_Celsius -O---K 49 049 056 000 Old_age Always -
195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered -O-RC- 30007682 051 038 000 Old_age Always -
197 Current_Pending_Sector -O--C- 0 100 100 000 Old_age Always -
198 Offline_Uncorrectable ----C- 0 100 100 000 Old_age Offline -
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count -OSRCK 0 200 200 000 Old_age Always -

SMART data looks ok, self check completed without errors.