522 Hard Drive problems

[Hall]

L1.69 is possible.... Definitely not with L1.68 though. We only had 1.69 for a short time before L2.01.

 

[kwajr]

It's totally understandable. Just like your computer's HD, the DVR needs to 'defrag' once every so often. I've never seen it either, but it is a fairly new box. I just couldn't see it deleting anything you hadn't protected. It should just be cleaning up all the fragments from shows deleted a long time ago - basically just freeing up more space.
I bet Jameskris records and deletes programs a lot...?

i saw it once i believe it does a check and if needs defrag does it

 

[kwajr]

Has anyone noticed that this started occuring after the update to L201 ?? I'm 99% sure that's when mine started doing it....

Looks like they messed something up in this rev where it kicks in the HDD diagnostics *instead* of a guide update. We've replicated this TWO TIMES: Set an update to take place in a few minutes (if it's 8:10pm, set it for 8:15pm). At 8:15, you'll get a prompt about it needing to do a program update and you have Yes, No, Cancel options. Pick "Yes". The HDD diagnostics kick in...

If you're seeing this behavior, CALL DISH AND REPORT IT. The last rep I spoke to took my receiver ID, smart card ID, s/w version, and bootstrap version. I also told him that all of a sudden a bunch of people here are seeing the same thing.

mine did it as soon as it got 1.69

 

[cheezwiz]

Defragging???
My understanding is that this box runs some form of Linux... If true, then no defragging is necessary! Fragmentation is primarily a M$ FAT and NTFS problem...
(Can also happen on Vax systems, sorta...)


As for Auto-Housecleaning causing this behavior, not on my end... I am guessing this happens when data fails crc checks or there are read/write errors to the hard drive.

Hard disks are really made cheap these days. We see at least a 1 in 10 failure rate with all new Dells we order. Manufacturer does not seem to matter anymore. The warranties from the big three have dropped from 3 to 1 year for that reason. I am guessing this is an attempt to delay total system crashes for as long as possible, perhaps to move the complete failure of the system beyond the warranty dates...

CW

 

[Hall]

It's not running a defrag, though it could be doing that even since it's running Linux. It's doing the equivalent to "fsck" (similar to 'chkdsk' in DOS, but for 'ext2' filesystems). I think I read that the 522's hard drives are formatted in XFS format... Hmmm, maybe that's not the case though as this page, http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/, mentions "Welcome to a fsck-free world!".