not recognizing harddisk

[ma4am]

can any one help i first tried installing 2tb disk but it wouldnt initialize, reading through forums other people had same problem, so i have now installed my 1tb out of my ipbox it says (model ata samsung hd103uj capacity 1000.204 gb bus interanl) so it is recognising it as it did with the other one and when i initialize it after 5 mins it says unable to initialize harddisk error: mount failed please can some one help this doing my nut in :angelsad2:

[A]

load latest original firmware and try

[ma4am]

im in process of just doing i will let you know thanks

[canthackit]

Try this i posted it on another forum.

How To Format/Mount HDD on Dream Elite

Hi
I found this post on the Dream Elite site in the DB 800 section it's a post by dimmie.
And it works on the VU+ DUO tested by meClick here to enlarge
If you dont have a text editor i always use Crimson Editor it's free just google it.
Finally just doing a restart didn't work fo me so pull the power.


Workaround / fix for harddisk formatting error in Dream Elite Image

After a lot of testing, I found out that the dream-elite team has deactivated a line in fstab which causes error when you want to format a new harddisk in your dreambox.
If you get an error while formatting the harddisk in your dreambox you can do the following trick to get your harddisk formatted:



1 .Open the file fstab with a linux-compatible editor (i used textpad).
fstab can be found in "/etc"

2. When you have opened it you will see something like this:

rootfs / auto defaults 1 1
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs defaults 0 0
/dev/mtdblock2 /boot jffs2 ro 0 0
tmpfs /var tmpfs defaults 0 0
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0
#/dev/sda1 /media/hdd auto defaults 0 0

3. Now remove the '#' so that it will be:

rootfs / auto defaults 1 1
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs defaults 0 0
/dev/mtdblock2 /boot jffs2 ro 0 0
tmpfs /var tmpfs defaults 0 0
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/sda1 /media/hdd auto defaults 0 0

4. Put the edited fstab file back in /etc, give it rights 644 and restart your box.

5. After the restart, format your harddisk, it will format without errors.

6. Play some channel and do some time-shifting (pause/play etc)

7. I noticed that the mapping option in Dreamelite image doesn't work anymore when you remove the '#" so now change the fstab file back to original, give it rights 644 and put the # in front of that line again.

8. Restart your box again.

9. Map your harddisk.


Tested on a DM800 and a DM8000.


I hope dream-elite team will make a workaround for this in the next image release.

Bye !

Dimmie

Regards: canthackit

[ford]

Try this i posted it on another forum.

How To Format/Mount HDD on Dream Elite

Hi
I found this post on the Dream Elite site in the DB 800 section it's a post by dimmie.
And it works on the VU+ DUO tested by meClick here to enlarge
If you dont have a text editor i always use Crimson Editor it's free just google it.
Finally just doing a restart didn't work fo me so pull the power.


Workaround / fix for harddisk formatting error in Dream Elite Image

After a lot of testing, I found out that the dream-elite team has deactivated a line in fstab which causes error when you want to format a new harddisk in your dreambox.
If you get an error while formatting the harddisk in your dreambox you can do the following trick to get your harddisk formatted:



1 .Open the file fstab with a linux-compatible editor (i used textpad).
fstab can be found in "/etc"

2. When you have opened it you will see something like this:

rootfs / auto defaults 1 1
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs defaults 0 0
/dev/mtdblock2 /boot jffs2 ro 0 0
tmpfs /var tmpfs defaults 0 0
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0
#/dev/sda1 /media/hdd auto defaults 0 0

3. Now remove the '#' so that it will be:

rootfs / auto defaults 1 1
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs defaults 0 0
/dev/mtdblock2 /boot jffs2 ro 0 0
tmpfs /var tmpfs defaults 0 0
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/sda1 /media/hdd auto defaults 0 0

4. Put the edited fstab file back in /etc, give it rights 644 and restart your box.

5. After the restart, format your harddisk, it will format without errors.

6. Play some channel and do some time-shifting (pause/play etc)

7. I noticed that the mapping option in Dreamelite image doesn't work anymore when you remove the '#" so now change the fstab file back to original, give it rights 644 and put the # in front of that line again.

8. Restart your box again.

9. Map your harddisk.


Tested on a DM800 and a DM8000.


I hope dream-elite team will make a workaround for this in the next image release.

Bye !

Dimmie

Regards: canthackit

You rock mate.

Thought I would have to remove the drive to formatt to FA**2.

Did exactly what you said.
Never thought I would play with the Crimson editor again:drool5:
Can't thank you enough.

Respect to you:respect-059::respect-059::cup-006::cup-006:
A star:respect-049::respect-049:

[canthackit]

Glad you got it sorted mate.

regards: canthackit