Footie Fan
10-15-2008, 05:23 PM
I am beginning to think this STB I have is jinxed. Finally three weeks after I first set this box up and after many hours of trying I actually got it to deliver some programming. I then thought it would be time to tackle setting up the PVR. I bought a 250GB Western Digital SATA II, 7200RPM hard drive in an external case.
I set it up according to instructions I had received on the site. I go into the main menu. Go to PVR. USB Drives. OK. The box recognises the hard drive as there. I press the green button to format the drive. I then get the parental lock pop up. I do 0000 I am then told, all data will be destroyed+yes. I click OK. I then select EXT2 file system (for recording) then down one arrow to, Format start. I press OK. It says Format begins then it pops up "format failed" with an OK and check mark. I then try to go through the process again and it says "No device connected" I disconnected then re-connected everything but it stayed the same. I checked all three USB ports with a memory stick and they are all read fine. I connect the hard drive to my computer and my computer does not see it either. I took the hard drive back to where I bought it and the guy there re-set it for me to FAT 32. I brought it home and tried to format it again for PVR and exactly the same thing happened. The main reason I bought this machine was for it's so called "superior" PVR capabilities. If this is superior performance then god save us from inferior ones. It would seem, given the other posts I have read in here I am not the only one having problems with this make and model STB.
I set it up according to instructions I had received on the site. I go into the main menu. Go to PVR. USB Drives. OK. The box recognises the hard drive as there. I press the green button to format the drive. I then get the parental lock pop up. I do 0000 I am then told, all data will be destroyed+yes. I click OK. I then select EXT2 file system (for recording) then down one arrow to, Format start. I press OK. It says Format begins then it pops up "format failed" with an OK and check mark. I then try to go through the process again and it says "No device connected" I disconnected then re-connected everything but it stayed the same. I checked all three USB ports with a memory stick and they are all read fine. I connect the hard drive to my computer and my computer does not see it either. I took the hard drive back to where I bought it and the guy there re-set it for me to FAT 32. I brought it home and tried to format it again for PVR and exactly the same thing happened. The main reason I bought this machine was for it's so called "superior" PVR capabilities. If this is superior performance then god save us from inferior ones. It would seem, given the other posts I have read in here I am not the only one having problems with this make and model STB.