Counters Info

[charlesrshell]

Does anyone know of a chart or Dish site that explains what all the Counter (menu 6-3) information is? If not, how about what the following dates/times are? Last Connect date, Status Scheduled date & time NT NA, Last Status Update and time, and the last one, Fsck: 0 : date & time.

 

[RandallA]

Charles,

http://www.satelliteguys.us/dish-network-technical-discussions/215962-how-read-values-6-1-3-a.html

 

[charlesrshell]

Charles,

http://www.satelliteguys.us/dish-network-technical-discussions/215962-how-read-values-6-1-3-a.html

Good info RandallA, I didn't know that about the values. But, I also would like to know what all the counter info is in menu 6-3-Counters. I know some of them like the temps and and have a guess for the four dates, but not the rest of them.

 

[RandallA]

Good info RandallA, I didn't know that about the values. But, I also would like to know what all the counter info is in menu 6-3-Counters. I know some of them like the temps and and have a guess for the four dates, but not the rest of them.

I've never found info on what all the counters mean but that's a good start, at least for troubleshooting purposes.

 

[charlesrshell]

I've never found info on what all the counters mean but that's a good start, at least for troubleshooting purposes.

Do you know what the four dates mean that are in the counter info?

 

[StanUbankit]

Do you know what the four dates mean that are in the counter info?

I don't know what the dates mean but here's my guess: I have a 622 (only receiver) that's not hooked up to a phone line or broadband continuously, (I force a call out about once a month) by hooking a phone line up to it (don't have a phone jack in the room or area the 622 is in). I believe the last connect date is when the receiver contacted Dish (I'm not looking at a tv screen so I'm just going from memory) the last time. In my case, it would be when I did a "call out" (hook the phone line up, go to menu 6-3-call out). I think the status scheduled date & last status update have to do with the diagnostic part "check hdmi" and "hard drive disk test" (going from memory so not sure if the wording is correct). Think there is a "send results" option on that sub-menu and I did the hdmi test (it brings up several info screens which didn't mean anything to me for the most part), I believe the hard disk drive button was greyed out
(not active). After I hooked the phone line up, performed the check hdmi option, then clicked on send results, it changed the date & time of the status test to when I did the test. The next status schedule became 3 days later, at 9:19 pm; so I'm thinking it sends some info approx twice a week? (my last status update has stayed at the date/time I "send results", prior to this the last status sent date was early part of 2009, don't remember the month or day.) My guess is Fsck means F***
Stupid Courts Kangaroo-Judge; I have no idea what that actually stands for, "FS check" means nothing to my semi-computer-literate mind.

 

[charlesrshell]

I don't know what the dates mean but here's my guess: I have a 622 (only receiver) that's not hooked up to a phone line or broadband continuously, (I force a call out about once a month) by hooking a phone line up to it (don't have a phone jack in the room or area the 622 is in). I believe the last connect date is when the receiver contacted Dish (I'm not looking at a tv screen so I'm just going from memory) the last time. In my case, it would be when I did a "call out" (hook the phone line up, go to menu 6-3-call out). I think the status scheduled date & last status update have to do with the diagnostic part "check hdmi" and "hard drive disk test" (going from memory so not sure if the wording is correct). Think there is a "send results" option on that sub-menu and I did the hdmi test (it brings up several info screens which didn't mean anything to me for the most part), I believe the hard disk drive button was greyed out
(not active). After I hooked the phone line up, performed the check hdmi option, then clicked on send results, it changed the date & time of the status test to when I did the test. The next status schedule became 3 days later, at 9:19 pm; so I'm thinking it sends some info approx twice a week? (my last status update has stayed at the date/time I "send results", prior to this the last status sent date was early part of 2009, don't remember the month or day.) My guess is Fsck means F***
Stupid Courts Kangaroo-Judge; I have no idea what that actually stands for, "FS check" means nothing to my semi-computer-literate mind.

LOL, thanks StanUbankit. Your guess for what Fsck means might be correct! I don't have a clue what it means. But, I think it is the date and time when the receiver does a check for updates, the guide gets updated, etc. at what ever time the receiver is set to update. I have noticed the date and time is always a few minutes past the update time setting I have set in the receiver. I have all four of my DVRs set to update at 2:30AM everyday. When I check the Fsck date and time occasionally it is usually a little past 2:30AM or within a couple of hours later. I wish the Dish Gods had it in their web site a description of the counter info values.

 

[StanUbankit]

LOL, thanks StanUbankit. Your guess for what Fsck means might be correct! I don't have a clue what it means. But, I think it is the date and time when the receiver does a check for updates, the guide gets updated, etc. at what ever time the receiver is set to update. I have noticed the date and time is always a few minutes past the update time setting I have set in the receiver. I have all four of my DVRs set to update at 2:30AM everyday. When I check the Fsck date and time occasionally it is usually a little past 2:30AM or within a couple of hours later. I wish the Dish Gods had it in their web site a description of the counter info values.

I'll look at the diagnostic screen tonite and "refresh" my memory, I've got the daily update time set at 03:10 am. (I shouldn't try to recall from memory because I've been know to confuse things before)

 

[KKlare]

Fsck is File System ChecK, a Unix/Linux utility that is suppose to check the integrity of the directories and hard-disk storage. It is done on a complete reboot and sometimes seems to be skipped if recovering with the output waiting or recording pending, my guess. The rest is about right by observation.

Wish the EHD would have a better file system so that it could handle file fragments when you are pushing the storage limit--as is, the entire file must be copied as one piece and I don't know what it does about disk errors except to reject the transfer. It needs a de-frag program. Near full, I try to be careful which order I delete and add recordings (need a list in storage order not just date to do it better), but the only "garbage" collection seems to be to copy the disk to another dragging the recordings thru the internal. This works best with 2 recorders to keep both drives busy. So this is really meant for one-time archiving and not daily save and delete. Normally a percent or two is lost to fragments but it might be possible to lose 1/2 of the space to them and, in the extreme, you could have most of the drive "available" and still not be able to store a new large recording. It is also possible to "lose" large parts of the disk to crash-corrupted record availability tables, don't know if this applies to this file system. This is the price of a "simple" file system and no utilities. What happens on the 211 with no internal to copy thru?
-Ken