External HDD on DM500 HD

**luis** · 03-06-2011, 06:13 PM

I´m satisfied with my DM8000, however I´d only need one more item on it: the e-SATA connector to play back the recorded movies from external enclosures. Have tried to connect the enclosure from its e-SATA interface to the free SATA connector on DM8000 motherboard, but the receiver doesn´t seem to recognize the external HDD.

That´s the main reason I´m going to buy a DM500 HD to use it as an external HDDs playback device in the first place.

Now can somebody tell me the following. All HDDs were recorded as internal disks on DM8000 in OE1.5 images. Formatting the HDDs in DM500 HD again in an OE1.6 image is out of question since I´ll lose all the recorded material that way. So, prior to buying a DM500 HD, I´d like to know the following: can these HDDs be played back in DM500 HD (from enclosure via e-SATA) in OE1.6images?

In case they can´t, I should probably load an OE1.5 image to DM500 HD to make it possible, but I can´t find an OE1.5 image for DM500 HD anywhere. Do they exist at all?

I´ll be grateful for your answers.

**passete** · 03-06-2011, 10:14 PM

Maybe the easier way, is to put the hdd on pc, share it, and then acess from both dm's with mount manager !

Just my 2 cents, don't know if it will work, but maybe giving a try.

**paddyboy** · 06-06-2011, 03:56 PM

Hi was wondering if theres a how to do somewhere.
i have just purchased an original d500hd box and would
like to use the 100gb sata hard drive i have to record
i believe its got to be used as an external drive but
dont have a clue how to go about installing it any
help be obliged.

paddyboy

**mjamil** · 06-06-2011, 07:28 PM

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**passete** · 06-06-2011, 07:42 PM

Originally Posted by paddyboy

Hi was wondering if theres a how to do somewhere.
i have just purchased an original d500hd box and would
like to use the 100gb sata hard drive i have to record
i believe its got to be used as an external drive but
dont have a clue how to go about installing it any
help be obliged.

paddyboy

Connect your esata drive on rear, reboot box and go to menu > setup > system > HDD
From there, first Format the drive and you should be able to use it.

**oldfart** · 06-06-2011, 10:38 PM

Louis
The image makes no difference.
The box will auto mount, but only when the drive is formatted in Linux.
To see if the HDD really is there, from telnet
fdisk -l (lowercase L)

**luis** · 08-06-2011, 05:56 PM

Right oldfart m8. Have already got the new DM500 HD which CAN play back the external disks from enclosure (installed Nemesis 2.2).

**oldfart** · 08-06-2011, 10:27 PM

Originally Posted by luis

Right oldfart m8. Have already got the new DM500 HD which CAN play back the external disks from enclosure (installed Nemesis 2.2).

so .. problem solved??

**luis** · 09-06-2011, 09:07 AM

Regarding the playback, the problem is solved. Playback works. However, when I try recording, the DM500 HD crashes. It´s strange. Do you have a hint? Would it help if I formatted the disk (which was formatted in DM8000) in DM500 HD? Of course not the recorded one but a new one. Somebody told me it might help if I renamed the "movie" folder in hdd to "Movie" (capital letter). I´ll try that when I switch back to DM500 HD, I´m using DM8000 now. As a matter of fact, I use the DM500 HD for playback in the first place, but it should record too, it´s supposed to.

***sonic1*** · 09-06-2011, 09:51 AM

@ luis have you got an external power supply to your HDD ?
I have mine powered from a USB hub and I never have a problem.

**luis** · 09-06-2011, 12:02 PM

Of course I have the external power supply. The enclosure is powered from the adaptor.

**luis** · 11-06-2011, 10:47 AM

Something else is wrong also. Giving DM500 HD the recording command a well known green screen appears: "We are really sorry! The receiver encountered a serious software problem and has to be restarted....." Then it restarts enigma. The same thing happens when I´m normally restarting the receiver (from the main menu). Restarting the receiver functioned normally at the beginning (a few restarts) though. The error started when I started to meddle with the hard disk.
Would reinstalling the image again help? I have the "Nemesis2.2-dm500hd-e2-OE(1.6)-SVN(083).nfi " of 9.5.2011 in now. Should I rather install "Nemesis2.2-dm500hd-e2-OE(1.6)-SVN(081).nfi" of 3.5.2011 or "Nemesis2.2-dm500hd-e2-OE(1.6)_25-2-2011-18-45.nfi". Has anyone one of these installed which works well?

**Quailman** · 11-06-2011, 01:46 PM

Originally Posted by luis

Something else is wrong also. Giving DM500 HD the recording command a well known green screen appears: "We are really sorry! The receiver encountered a serious software problem and has to be restarted....." Then it restarts enigma. The same thing happens when I´m normally restarting the receiver (from the main menu). Restarting the receiver functioned normally at the beginning (a few restarts) though. The error started when I started to meddle with the hard disk.
Would reinstalling the image again help? I have the "Nemesis2.2-dm500hd-e2-OE(1.6)-SVN(083).nfi " of 9.5.2011 in now. Should I rather install "Nemesis2.2-dm500hd-e2-OE(1.6)-SVN(081).nfi" of 3.5.2011 or "Nemesis2.2-dm500hd-e2-OE(1.6)_25-2-2011-18-45.nfi". Has anyone one of these installed which works well?

As you said you get the green screen this also means you get a crash log. Please post the crash log.

**Quailman** · 11-06-2011, 04:40 PM

IOError: [Errno 28] No space left on device: '/etc/enigma2/timers.xml'

Is your flash memory full, have you setup a swap file?

**luis** · 12-06-2011, 02:31 PM

Thank you for your hint Quailman. You were right. Yes, the flash memory seems to be full. The recording path was not set right (not onto hdd), so the recording filled the flash memory. I´m going to correct it. Thanks a lot again.

**luis** · 25-06-2011, 10:25 AM

As a matter of fact the recording path was set right, however the flash was full, hence the crashes. It was not filled up with recordings, but with subtitle files I have put in the tuxbox folder (about 400 files, approx. 60 kB each). I record a lot of movies and add my own subtitles using Drtic subtitler which takes the subtitles files from the tuxbox, where they have to be put for Drtic to work. Emptying the tit folder in the tuxbox folder solved everything.

Now, there´s a disadvantage of ftp-ing a subtitle file into the tuxbox every time I watch a recorded movie. I would like to have the whole archive of files in the DM500 HD already (as it´s the case in DM8000). Is it possible to enlarge the memory of tuxbox somehow? Would setting up a swap file solve the problem? How do I do it, have never done it before?

The flash memory of my DM500 HD is 60 MB and is 79 % full now (with empty tit folder in the tuxbox).

**oldfart** · 25-06-2011, 11:51 AM

here
_http://satpimps.co.uk/showthread.php?t=148953

**luis** · 25-06-2011, 01:48 PM

The .sh file probably goes to usr/script folder. Anything else to be done afterwards? Attributes 755?

**oldfart** · 25-06-2011, 05:53 PM

correct.
I'm surprised one isn't available from your plugins menu.

**luis** · 25-06-2011, 07:05 PM

There´s nothing like that in Plugins. I use the newest Nemesis 2.3 version 0.87.
Oldfart, would you tell me what to do after ftp-ing the .sh file into script folder?