flubber hard drive format failure

[tyvek]

since install flubber i no longer can format hard drives ,have tried diffrent types ,

message says initialised but uknown file system have put into pc and formatted but box still not format the drives,

can u help pliss dm7020.

think posted subject b4 but cano find answer in search

[robb]

Did you format it on the PC under Linux? Or Windows?

[tyvek]

format with windows only have i wrong done? no have linux

why dream box not t format when emerald format ok

sorry many question
thank for reply

[robb]

I have no idea why PLi would not format the disk (I am not going to format mine to test), but formatting under Windows is not going to be useful. At worst, some check function that tries to guard you against formatting an already formatted disk is going to be troubled by it. But I don't know if such a function is in PLi.

What you can always do is this:
- telnet to the dreambox and login
- type this command: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc bs=512 count=20

This will erase the partition table and other traces of the formatting.
Now, restart the dreambox and try to format again.

[Roodkapke]

Hi,

I'm shure something else must be wrong, like robb says.
I just had to format my disk with Flubber, works like it should.

Greetz,

Roodkapke

[RubbeRNL]

Hi, I had the same problem with dreambox 7020 Pli Flubber and a brand new harddisk. This telnet operation worked for me (and also had a reply it worked for at least 1 other person).

telnet to the dreambox:

umount /hdd
mkfs.ext3 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1
mount /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 /hdd
mkdir /hdd/movie

restart your dreambox

should work OK

[tyvek]

guys thanks for reply.

cannot format any hard drive , either new or old or one origainal use in emerald and formatted more than once,since flubber install ftp worked for 1 week about and no longer ftp dbox.have tried diifeernt hard drives all recognised today all format fail, will continue to try to make ftp work again and try the method of formatting suggested, all the settings are correct for ftp and addresses assigned can connect to net but still no ftp.

puzzled no understand why no able to format drive that was format in emerald ok. thanks to you all for helpings.

[krial2006]

I had the same problem after install and uninstall NFS-Server. After that I can't format HDD without reinstall image.

Sorry for my bad English

[robb]

Originally Posted by RubbeRNL

telnet to the dreambox:

umount /hdd
mkfs.ext3 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1
mount /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 /hdd
mkdir /hdd/movie

Yes that should work. Although you may need to do an fdisk before the mkfs.

Only it may be that a format from the image passes some more parameters to the mkfs.ext3 command.
The sources I have at hand here seem to use this:

mkfs.ext3 -T largefile -m0

This is reasonable. Without the -T largefile the filesystem will have a ridiculous number of inodes on large disks. However, that will still work fine.

[aqa]

any body found a way to format hdd ? i cant format after installing flubber image, tried all abouve method no joy. any ideas please