Can zgemma h7 recognise large usb drive

Hello,

I am using an Amiko Alien2 since 2013. It still works ok. For the last few years I have made TV recordings from the Alien2 to an attached 1TB external USB drive. Recently I bought a 4TB usb external drive. I have tried many things but the Alien2 won't recognise it and it's because its PKT Hyperion image is based on the Linux/GNU Kernel 2.6.32.59 which has no EFI/GPT partition support. When I run the #fdisk -l command with the drive connected to the Alien2 I get the message: "fdisk - device has more than 2^32 sectors, can't use all of them" and then i can't mount the drive.

I see the zgemma boxes comes with at least Linux Kernel 4.1.

Question:

Can anyone please test if a zgemma h7 running an enigma2 image such as OpenATV will recognise an attached USB 4TB hard drive? As long as the drive is bigger than 2TiB and formatted with a GPT partition type that's all I need to know. I suppose you could test with an internal drive and that would be the same.

You could run the command # fdisk -l or # fdisk /dev/sdb (or whatever your drive is attached at)

Here is my 4TB drive attached to a Raspberry Pi showing the drive size 3.7TiB and gpt partition type.

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Thank you,

Flex

Thanks Gorski,

You have a fuseblk file system on that big usb drive and I can't see what is the partition type.

I want to put an EXT4 file system on a GPT partition. This is the set up I need. I would really like to confirm if the Linux OS in the zgemma h7s has compiled support for that partition type. That information could be confirmed with a setting like: CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION=y

There might be a config file in the boot directory and you could use a command something like:

# cat /boot/config-2.6.37-8-generic | grep "CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION"

Or there may be a compressed archive file in the proc directory and you could use a command something like:

# sudo zcat /proc/config.gz > Kconfig

.. and then open the file and search for CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION.

Grateful for your help!

Flex

Hi again,

Sorry to bother you about this!

Did you get any time to try those commands above? I asked someone else who has a H7S and a 4TB usb drive ext4 formatted. When they connected their 4TB drive to the H7S it saw the drive but would not mount it. Now I'm thinking maybe I shouldn't get the H7S after all. If I could confirm that it has CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION support in its kernel would give me confidence to buy it. It's because I need to use the GPT partition type with ext4 filesystem.

Cheers,

Flex

Gorski, that was soo sound of you. Thanks for going to the trouble. I'm going to buy a Zgemma h7s now :)

Flex