I installed a 1TB Hitachi hdd in my cuberevo twin pvr running enigma2 0.50. Upon first run I ran hdd initialisation and it seemed to go through fine.
Upon reboot when i tried to record a stream it threw the error no hdd or not not initialised. So upon trying to reformat I got the "mkfs failed to format"
Using telnet I tried to manually format using:
fdisk -l (to view installed media and partitions)
hdd showed up as /dev/sda
so i created a single partition spanning 1000GB. by
fdisk /dev/sda
then type "n" to create new partition. "p" to create primary then press "1" for partition number. Finally allocate a size to the partition, I just pressed enter here to allow maximum size and then "w" to commit changes.
Next typed in
mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda1
threw an error saying "Memory allocation failed while setting up superblock"
Key is to create a swap partition as the box runs out of ram to allocate for formatting blocks.
So using above method create two partitions
fdisk /dev/sda
press "d" to delete current partition
then "n" to create new partition following above procedure. When you get to setting size of the partition you can use "+ 'whateversize' GB" e.g. I used +990GB
similarly create partition 2 and you can press enter when it comes to allocating size as it will use remainder of disk space.
to create the swap file:
mke2fs /dev/sda2
mkswap /dev/sda2
swapon /dev/sda2
Somebody did mention that you can use a spare usb to create the swapfile on. Process would be the same for creating sda2. Hopefully should save you a few MB's on your hdd.
Once it's completed creating the swap you can now format the main partition using
mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda1
Alternatively you can try formatting from enigma2 menu.
Hope it comes in handy to somebody.
Credits go to Ulyss62 from Asusforum.net
Upon reboot when i tried to record a stream it threw the error no hdd or not not initialised. So upon trying to reformat I got the "mkfs failed to format"
Using telnet I tried to manually format using:
fdisk -l (to view installed media and partitions)
hdd showed up as /dev/sda
so i created a single partition spanning 1000GB. by
fdisk /dev/sda
then type "n" to create new partition. "p" to create primary then press "1" for partition number. Finally allocate a size to the partition, I just pressed enter here to allow maximum size and then "w" to commit changes.
Next typed in
mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda1
threw an error saying "Memory allocation failed while setting up superblock"
Key is to create a swap partition as the box runs out of ram to allocate for formatting blocks.
So using above method create two partitions
fdisk /dev/sda
press "d" to delete current partition
then "n" to create new partition following above procedure. When you get to setting size of the partition you can use "+ 'whateversize' GB" e.g. I used +990GB
similarly create partition 2 and you can press enter when it comes to allocating size as it will use remainder of disk space.
to create the swap file:
mke2fs /dev/sda2
mkswap /dev/sda2
swapon /dev/sda2
Somebody did mention that you can use a spare usb to create the swapfile on. Process would be the same for creating sda2. Hopefully should save you a few MB's on your hdd.
Once it's completed creating the swap you can now format the main partition using
mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda1
Alternatively you can try formatting from enigma2 menu.
Hope it comes in handy to somebody.
Credits go to Ulyss62 from Asusforum.net