I suspect if you get a reply they will tell you to reformat the hard disk.
I had corruption of the buffer a long time ago - all buffer functions lost but no error message.
A reformat fixed it - so it was a corrupt structure rather than a disk faulty block.
grahamlthompson - 3 days ago »
Other than deleting your recording schedule a factory reset does not affect your existing recordings. Photograph the schedule first using a digital camera.
The recording partition is apparently encrypted so you can't access it on a PC which itself needs to be booted into Linux.
Not true - the recordings partition *can* be accessed in Linux.
See http://www.burningimage.net/humaxusb
You can quite easily copy all your recordings off the box onto another drive, then format the box and copy your recordings back on. Or, try and find the faulty timeshift buffer file and delete that such that the box recreates it.
Thanks for that, Andy.
I have exactly the same issue with the time shift buffer and are not in a position to delete all the content on the drive.
If this type of corruption is possible it would seem sensible to include an overnight housekeeping job to check and reformat as necessary.
I'm happy to pull the disk out and run up a LINUX to investigate but I do feel sorry for those who are less tech savvy and are stuck with difficult choices.
For anyone interested in booting their Windows PC into Linux, here's a couple of links....
I remembered I had a spare 2TB AV HD that became available a couple of months ago when I upgraded something else. So I've stuck that in the Humax and, having formatted it, it is now pausing live broadcasts.
Currently, I'm backing up everything I recorded on the original HD and will copy them to the new disk.
I found I couldn't mount the old disk using a Linux virtual machine, something to do with USB3 I think. So I booted to Linux Mint from a USB stick and all is well.
HELP! I'm trying to copy the recordings to the new disk, but it says permission denied. When I look closer it tells me I'm not the owner. Does formatting with the latest firmware make the HD unwritable outside the box?
wiggers - 2 minutes ago »
HELP! I'm trying to copy the recordings to the new disk, but it says permission denied. When I look closer it tells me I'm not the owner. Does formatting with the latest firmware make the HD unwritable outside the box?
Guessing you need to use Sudo to get write permissions. It's been a while since I played with Linux.
Ah yes, of course. Only problem now is that following an update to Linux Mint I now can't boot it!
Finally, after rebuilding my Linux disk, I've managed to copy the old recordings onto the new disk. Turns out that in Linux Mint you simply right-click the folder and select Open as Root. Pausing live still works too, bonus!
Thanks for all your help chaps.
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