No it is something about the WD drives. I have a Maxtor that works on both receivers and two WD drives. One of the WD drives I use with my PC and I verified it works, and connected it to the 622. It gave me the same "feature not currently supported" message. It did not ask to format the drive or anything.
External Hard Drive Archive Bug Thread
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You use the problematic drive with your PC? Did you just connect it to verify that your PC could "see" it? The two file systems (Dish's Linux variant, and Window's) aren't compatible in the least.
I have two of the WDElements drives. One I used for the DVR, the second was for my PC. I took the second one and connected it to the DVR and it did not ask to format it. It gave me the same "not supported" message.
I then put it back on my PC and it was still working fine. My point here is that there is nothing wrong with WD drive I was using on the DVR but for some reason the 622 software has a problem with all similar WD drives.
I downloaded PCLinuxOS and tried to look at the DVR formatted drive. All I saw was a directory called "DiskArc" with no files in it. Was I supposed to see file names?
How can I use Linux to move the stuff on this drive to a supported drive?
I then put it back on my PC and it was still working fine. My point here is that there is nothing wrong with WD drive I was using on the DVR but for some reason the 622 software has a problem with all similar WD drives.
I downloaded PCLinuxOS and tried to look at the DVR formatted drive. All I saw was a directory called "DiskArc" with no files in it. Was I supposed to see file names?
How can I use Linux to move the stuff on this drive to a supported drive?
Sounds like your dvr is not recognising The format of the hard drive.
I just installed a new Wd drive and had the same problem. It also Recognized my other drive. I formatted the drive with my computer (NTFS). Moved drive to DVR,
then it was recognized and formated, now it works fine.
Good Luck.
Train99, were you getting the "feature not supported" message too with your WD drive? Are you running L621?
I have another WD drive that was formatted with FAT32 and I put it on the DVR and still got the "feature not supported" message. Does it make a difference between NTFS and FAT32?
I have another WD drive that was formatted with FAT32 and I put it on the DVR and still got the "feature not supported" message. Does it make a difference between NTFS and FAT32?
Using L621 WD drive formated as Fat32
Feature not Supported
Formated as NTFS on Computer
When I put it back on 722, message Drive nees to be formated, replyed yes
After 722 restarted all OK
This is probably a failing USB port on the receiver itself (given the track record of some of the 622's). While it may not be aesthetically pleasing, you can try connecting it to the front USB port (assuming you're currently using the rear port) to see if it resolves your issue. Not that you have to live with that, though. It'll just be a way of isolating the issue. If it turns out to be the case, you can probably get your receiver swapped out by DISH (maybe even upgraded to a 722).
If that doesn't resolve the issue, try using a new USB cable.
I followed Train99's advice and reformatted my fat32 drive as NTFS and to my surprise, the 622 DVR did ask for it to be formatted and it worked! Thanks!
So after I sent a DVR event to the drive, I put it back on my PC on looked at it suing PCLinux. There were 3 partitions, two (500 and 212 GB) of which had a DishArc directory but only one that had something in a DishArc directory. This was the biggest partition, 500 GB.
Then I looked at my problem drive and the there is one partition with an empty DishArc (212 GB), one partition with no DishArc, and one partition I can not mount. Attempting to mount gives the following error:
[root@localhost media]# mount -t ext3 /dev/sdc2 /media/dvr
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdc2,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so
[root@localhost media]#
So it looks like all my saved recording were in this partition and I can not read them. Anybody know anyway to recover this data?
So after I sent a DVR event to the drive, I put it back on my PC on looked at it suing PCLinux. There were 3 partitions, two (500 and 212 GB) of which had a DishArc directory but only one that had something in a DishArc directory. This was the biggest partition, 500 GB.
Then I looked at my problem drive and the there is one partition with an empty DishArc (212 GB), one partition with no DishArc, and one partition I can not mount. Attempting to mount gives the following error:
[root@localhost media]# mount -t ext3 /dev/sdc2 /media/dvr
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdc2,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so
[root@localhost media]#
So it looks like all my saved recording were in this partition and I can not read them. Anybody know anyway to recover this data?
Under lunux, try running "sudo e2fsck /dev/sdxxx" on all partitions of the problem drive (you need to be a super user/administrator).
http://www.satelliteguys.us/dish-ne...-drive-archive-bug-thread-53.html#post1797427
I'm using PC LinuxOS v9.0. It does recognize the ext3. The other two partitions on this drive are ext3. This problem partition, it just doesn't know what to do with it.
It was formatted by the VIP 622 several months ago and within the last couple of weeks, became unusable.
Sadly, sounds like something became corrupted on that drive. It may need a complete reformat with Windows, then connect to your 622 and let it reformat it again...
I was getting the same superblock error message & was able to use TestDisk to find the backup location to use e2fsck to repair it with. TestDisk Step By Step - CGSecurity
if you're running ubuntu you can install testdisk with 'sudo aptget install testdisk'
if you're running ubuntu you can install testdisk with 'sudo aptget install testdisk'
Here's the link with info on finding the backup superblock
Advanced Find ext2 ext3 Backup SuperBlock - CGSecurity
Advanced Find ext2 ext3 Backup SuperBlock - CGSecurity
Thanks for the info on finding the SuperBlock (this is beyone my skill level). I too, had a Superblock problem, but the e2fsck (Unbuntu 8 release) was able to recover it.
It's good to have additional ways to recover from this error.
It's good to have additional ways to recover from this error.
