IPBox9000HD + Enigma2 - HDD cannot be initialized

[Domingus]

I successfully installed Enigma 2 (build 0.6.0 SIFteam) on my IPBox 9000 HD.
Everything seems to work perfectly, but I cannot use the recording/timeshift functions - I cannot initialize the HDD (Samsung HD103UJ - 1Terabyte)
The HDD is recognized and can be identified, but when I use
Menu/Settings/System/Harddrive/Initialize
I get the two spinning wheels and after 10sec the message "Mkfs failed"

When I start a filesystem check, I get the message "fsck failed".

Any idea whats wrong?
The HDD worked perfectly under DGS and NLB images

 

[xener]

go to telnet/ssh console, then erase first 512 bytes from beginning of the disk and then partition it with fdisk.

 

[Domingus]

"erase first 512 bytes from beginning of the disk"

How Do I do that ???

 

[Bacardi]

did you sort this m8? i have just put E2 my on usb stick, and have a samsung and i can not get it to initialize.

Just one more question regarding the harddrive if i have e2 on the usb can i still ftp over some xvid files? i have tried connecting by ftp however i cannot get access (i can get access when booting from flash i.e nlb)

 

[mercato_1]

i had the same problem then i did the followings:

- i am using sifteam image in addition to E2
- i boot the sifteam image then i download the script _HDD_
- i ran that script then reboot

after box stated up it is sense the HDD but I LOST ALL OLD DATA recorded before.

Regards

 

[jud1255]

mercato 1
can you explain in more detail how to do this .
thanks jud

 

[jamie-warez]

The problems with hdd on e2 are caused by the DGS Flash firmware DGS firmware will make 2 partisions.
One /dev/sda1 for sawp and one /dev/sda2 for /media
If you try and format the disk after DGS has formated setup the disk it will give an error. /dev/sda2 is your media recording partition. /sda1 is a swap partition and can be ignored.

On e2 it will by default try to mount your hdd as sda1 so you will need to change this so it mounts sda2 some images like PKT have a image mounting addon bult in some dont.
If your e2 image doesn't then just edit your /ect/fstab

so its looks something like below! your's may be different as some images vary!

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>               <dump>  <pass>
tmpfs   	/dev/shm        tmpfs   size=52m        		0 0
/dev/root       /               auto    defaults,errors=remount-ro      0 0
proc          /proc               proc    defaults                        0 0
tmpfs         /tmp                tmpfs   defaults                        0 0
/dev/sda1 	 none 		 swap 	 sw
/dev/sda2        /hdd            auto    defaults,errors=remount-ro,noatime,nodiratime      0 0