External Hard Drive Archive Bug Thread
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It falls between what the current 211K's firmware reports and the purported increase in that limit to be pushed out by Dishnet. Question relates to when the latter is expected.
You'll find out about the firmware release when it starts happening if you keep an eye on this forum. DISH Network generally doesn't announce these updates.
After your serial number is enabled, you'll have to wait and see when your ViP211k actually gets the update.
After your serial number is enabled, you'll have to wait and see when your ViP211k actually gets the update.
It has to be a firmware issue with 22K. I just bought the 1.5 TB element and it works perfectly fine with my 722.
Thanks. I will watch the forum. Meanwhile I''ll go to plan B and use the 1.5T as a backup to the raid array in my PC.
Thanks. Then, that indeed seems to confirm what I suspected, that Dishnet has not yet rolled out the firmware update for my receiver.
Help, my External Hard Drive (500 GB WD) which has been working fine for over a year and has about 350GB of recordings on it, showed as not attached on Sunday. After rebooting both the drive and my ViP622, the DVR is now recognizing it - but as a new drive and wants to reformat it! I don't want to click OK and hence loose all the recoding.... any thoughts on this?
I had the same issue long ago. I simply connected the drive to my XP laptop, launched drive management, let XP find the drive, then I did NOTHING. I canceled out of everything and connected it back to the DISH receiver and it found it, along with all of my recordings, as usual. I then proceeded to copy everything over to the internal HDD of the receiver and then used a newer EHD. I have since been using the original EHD with Windows (after reformatting, of course) without any problems. The EHD in question is an older model WD Essentials with the amber ring.
I don't know why this works, but it did for me. It actually happened twice before I quit using the EHD as a DISH EHD.
Am I correct in thinking that Dish DVR's require a USB EHD and DirecTV requires a esata EHD? What are the advantages of one over the other please?
Yes. eSATA is typically more expensive (which makes little sense) and ideally quite a bit faster (though these devices probably don't challenge the capability). Finding the right combination can be very tricky. eSATA supports hot swapping but DIRECTV doesn't.
USB is everywhere and usually the cheapest. Many have claimed success using USB switches to choose between active drives. Hot swapping is a routine occurrence.
The differences come in the DVR integration and that's completely different; almost entirely in DISH Network's favor.
Here we go again.
Don't anyone say WD Essentials. He won't believe you.
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No, not here we go again. The Essentials requires too much preparation to make it work. I don't want to have to disable "smartware" You say it's great and plenty of others say it's the worst EHD they have ever used. There are other threads on other sites discussing this question. Can I buy the Essentials 1.5 and just plug it in and use it?Here we go again.
Well,
I have one of the older models purchased last year Western Digital My Book Essentials and it works fine, (didn't have to disable any software).
When I go to buy another one I am going to get another WD Essentials and do whatever has to be done to disable the software, from what I have read during this entire thread it doesn't seem to be that difficult?
I have one of the older models purchased last year Western Digital My Book Essentials and it works fine, (didn't have to disable any software).
When I go to buy another one I am going to get another WD Essentials and do whatever has to be done to disable the software, from what I have read during this entire thread it doesn't seem to be that difficult?
The WD Elements 1TB arrived yesterday and everything went smoothly. Recognized, called the automated Dish number to turn it on, and in less than a minute was able to format it, and check out the settings for pause, future program recording, etc.
I have two WD 500G My DVR Expanders and they work great. Have never had any problems with them for a couple of years or so.
