hard drive

Hello, i really can't understand what your doing, because if you have mounted your drive, media/hdd then you don't need to change recording path's or anything.
Mount the drive media/hdd then use ftp and make a folder /movie and everything should work, you must have a movie folder for the red button to work correctly.

The default paths are what you see, but you have to mount the drive media/hdd for it to work, then using ftp go to media/hdd then make a folder and name it movie, then it will work off the red button. Timeshift works directly in media/hdd but you need the movie folder to record. DON'T TRY TO CHANGE THE DEFAULT PATHS. Try what i say.

hdd/movie is just media/hdd/movie
So as al1968 says, just add the movie folder to hdd and the paths will be correct.

Daveangel, is this a new hard drive or has it been used in a windows pc before you put it in the 800? For it to work correctly it'll need all partitions removing and formatting in ext3.

Hi dave, what did you do to get it working as ext3?
I've installed a HDD but get "Timeshift is not possible"!
I'm using an old Windows HDD

The problem wasn't the path's. It was the partition on the hard drive.
I used an old windows HDD which initialised but didn't work. I think it initialised with left over non partitioned space which was next to nothing.
I put it in my pc and removed the partition, but had many options when creating a new one. I tried an MBR main partition but it failed to initialise in the DM800.
I tried a secondary partition which worked :-)
Timeshift is working now.

Have you tried the permanent timeshift plugin? So you can rewind anytime?

If you are using your drive Fat32? i would advise you to format it ext3, for using on a dreambox, if you dont you will possibly get problems with your recordings.

You dont actually format it at all. Thats what the DM does when initialising it.

Yeah maybe your's has done it straight off, but if you look all over the internet, theres pages and pages of people having trouble with hard drives on Dm's and if you format a big drive on your pc in a coulple of minutes, then you just have to mount the drive, you have obviously been lucky if your dm formatted the drive.

It did take me a few goes to get it right.
It all depends on the type of partition.

Quote from Ten Below

I found the easiest way to format as ext3 was using a linux live disk, i had to do this for my usb stick before the DM would reconise it.

Yeah that's what i would reccomend doing.

Depends on the partition??? what about if it's a brand new drive with out partitions??? You have been lucky, plenty people have not, i battled for six days solid to get a drive to work on one box, and my other box the drive worked instantly.

Even with a new disk you can create a partition from Windows Control Panel.
It just depends what settings you choose to get it to work.

Quote from al1968

Yeah that's what i would reccomend doing.

Depends on the partition??? what about if it's a brand new drive with out partitions??? You have been lucky, plenty people have not, i battled for six days solid to get a drive to work on one box, and my other box the drive worked instantly.

Yea I plugged a virgin 500g western digital in and away it went.

Quote from ddaddy

Even with a new disk you can create a partition from Windows Control Panel.
It just depends what settings you choose to get it to work.

You are totally missing the point here, you bought a new box and your hard drive worked!! great!! there is people all over the place can't get hard drives to work, or stuggle to get them to work in there dm800's, My dm would not format/ initialize the disk, it most certainly does'nt just depend on the settings you use, you have been lucky, but because you never had a problem with the drive you seem to think no one else does!