Seagate Skyhawk, 4TB, Video Internal Hard Drive, 3.5
My brother has just bought the above for his FVP500, any comments regarding its suitability woud be appreciated,
Boyd
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| Wed 18 Aug 2021 19:44:30 #41 |
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mactoshb - 2 hours ago »
Seagate Skyhawk, 4TB, Video Internal Hard Drive, 3.5
My brother has just bought the above for his FVP500, any comments regarding its suitability woud be appreciated,Seagate Skyhawks are suitable for PVR usage; I am not sure whether the FVP-5000T will allow a drive bigger than 2TB to be formatted to its full capacity. Interested to hear how he gets on.
| Wed 18 Aug 2021 22:26:00 #42 | -
Sorry to bore every one by returning to this. I have just received a new Seagate 2Tb Skyhawk NOT bought on Ebay and the date of manufacture is printed on the label and is FEB 2021 and have just put it in my FVp4000 and it behaves exactly as all the drives I have tried, the new one was formatted by the machine, when I did a factory reset with format the HD, once again it went on to the next stage very quickly and I wonder if it did the format. I get the same result as before, It seems to accept the command to record and the recordings show in the recordings list, but when I try to play I get the message seen in the attached file number 1 "cannot support this video file due to invalid file format".
You will see in the snip of original working drive the Minitools Partition Manager readout says that the that the readout for the original Drive format is listed as hmx_int_stor_ext4 and if you look at the readout from Minitools on the new drive (After formatting in FVP4000.) is unallocated. I don’t doubt that is something to do with my problem, I need to find out how to get it formatted correctly. The formatting in the machine does not seem to have happened.
Incidentally the original drive on being reinserted to the FVP 4000 carries on working as if it was never out.
I did notice that telling the machine to format during setup it warned me that all recordings and settings including scheduled recording would be deleted and from previous posts it seems that the schedule is not on the H/D but in the NVRAM (Just mentioning that as I have no idea if that can be anything to do with anything.)
As I say I am sorry too bring this up again, but not only have I got an expensive drive that is effectively useless to me but my brother has exactly the same problem as I told him to get a 2TB also as a result of the forums saying there was no problem.
I will attach the photos and send now and hope someone has a lightbulb moment and can answer my problemI have also attached the photo of the label on the new drive and the date of manufacture is printed in clear on the bottom right hand
Boyd (mactoshb)Attachments
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SEATOOLS__New_2_TB_NOT_working_drive.jpg (50.7 KB, 2 downloads) 3 years old - minitools_snip_new_2TB_drive.jpg (99.1 KB, 7 downloads) 3 years old
- Original_working_Drive_Minitools_snip[.jpg (83.2 KB, 5 downloads) 3 years old
- Result_of_trying_to_play_recording.JPG (376.1 KB, 1 downloads) 3 years old
| Wed 1 Sep 2021 11:01:24 #43 | -
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I think the image you have posted demonstrates quite clearly the Skyhawk isn't formatted. I don't have any idea why. If you have partitioning tools, then one way to format it in the correct way would be to clone the original drive to the Skyhawk and then increase the size of the largest partition to fill the extra space.
| Wed 1 Sep 2021 20:46:48 #44 | -
If you put the original drive back in and perform a hdd format, does it complete and work?
If you then reformat that drive in another device, can you then put it back in the Humax and reformat successfully?
Have you tried reinstalling the Humax firmware just in case it has become corrupt?| Thu 2 Sep 2021 10:55:27 #45 | -
If it helps, just plugging a 2tb USB drive in and swapping files over when the internal is full, is possibly going to be the solution if the original internal hdd is fully functional.
| Thu 2 Sep 2021 12:47:15 #46 | -
In relation to larger hard drive.
One of the machines I tried to fit bigger drive in and it failed to format. I had the bright idea of seeing if it would format a spare drive of the same size, so I fitted one this morning and set it to record 4 programs at once and took the dog for a walk and on my return the machine had recorded all the prorams and it also played all 4 (Unlike when I fitted larger drives)
So is it possible that Humax has set the FVp machines to only format drives of the size the machine comes with?
I have e-mailed Humax support regarding it and will post the reply in due course
I have seen various posts by people who have fitted larger drives but none has mentioned the formatting being restricted to the original, nor any workaroundThanks, Boyd
| Mon 6 Sep 2021 8:52:55 #47 | -
I've just taken my FPV apart and removed the Seagate Skyhawk 2TB drive which has worked from the start. I put it in my PC and it shows the image below in disk management. Its Disk 2 , there's no mention of hmx_int_stor. Doesn't seem to be any format at all yet it works.
The image you showed of the recording is a broken recording try a scheduled recording.| Thu 16 Sep 2021 14:21:17 #48 | -
I've just taken my FPV apart and removed the Seagate Skyhawk 2TB drive which has worked from the start. I put it in my PC and it shows the image below in disk management. Its Disk 2 , there's no mention of hmx_int_stor. Doesn't seem to be any format at all yet it works.
The image you showed of the recording is a broken recording try a scheduled recording.| Thu 16 Sep 2021 14:21:47 #49 | -
I've just taken my FPV apart and removed the Seagate Skyhawk 2TB drive which has worked from the start. I put it in my PC and it shows the image below in disk management. Its Disk 2 , there's no mention of hmx_int_stor. Doesn't seem to be any format at all yet it works.
The image you showed of the recording is a broken recording try a scheduled recording.| Thu 16 Sep 2021 14:23:11 #50 |
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