Error Code 05 on DishScapes?

[zippyfrog]

I have never had this happen before - I just went to watch some previous Dish Scapes, and most of the Dish Scapes that I could watch previously now have an error code of 05. Attached are 3 examples - there are quite a few more that have them as well. I know I was able to watch them previously because I will watch them on a faster playback speed to make sure I see everything, but now when I go and watch them I can't. It is just the Dish Scapes - all my other recordings work fine.

I usually create a manual timer overnight on the first of the month and have them record for one hour. Any idea why all of a sudden just the Dish Scapes have this error? I went and did a recording of the current Dish Scape for about 10 minutes and it worked fine.

My receiver is a VIP211k

 

[brittanygarden]

00-01-02-03-04-05-06-07-08-09 are all error messages for corrupted recordings. There's no way to restore on the box. You'll need to delete and record again.

 

[Pepper]

00-01-02-03-04-05-06-07-08-09 are all error messages for corrupted recordings. There's no way to restore on the box. You'll need to delete and record again.

So if a user is seeing these, especially if there are a lot, and the recordings worked previously, that tells me the drive is failing.

Would this in itself be enough to warrant a receiver swap? Or does it have to fail completely first?

- note, after typing all that out, I did notice that OP's receiver is a 211k meaning the failing drive is his, not Dish's so that question would be more regarding the DVR receivers. Zippy, if the rest of the recordings on that drive are important to you, I'd look at cloning that drive because it's experiencing hardware failure which will likely eventually cause total loss.

 

[brittanygarden]

Not necessarily, Pepper - This error message is typically due to a file error, not the entire drive. If it's consistent on a DVR box, we can check the overall health of the box.

 

[zippyfrog]

So if a user is seeing these, especially if there are a lot, and the recordings worked previously, that tells me the drive is failing.

Would this in itself be enough to warrant a receiver swap? Or does it have to fail completely first?

- note, after typing all that out, I did notice that OP's receiver is a 211k meaning the failing drive is his, not Dish's so that question would be more regarding the DVR receivers. Zippy, if the rest of the recordings on that drive are important to you, I'd look at cloning that drive because it's experiencing hardware failure which will likely eventually cause total loss.

Thanks for this insight. I will double check. The drive is 10ish years old, maybe it is starting to fail. I am surprised that it is just the Dish Scapes that have the error. I thought maybe Dish someone protected them so they couldn't be recorded.

 

[Pepper]

Thanks for this insight. I will double check. The drive is 10ish years old, maybe it is starting to fail. I am surprised that it is just the Dish Scapes that have the error. I thought maybe Dish someone protected them so they couldn't be recorded.

Based on Brittany's reply, it could also be something in software that occasionally corrupts a file. At the very least you could connect it to a computer and run a SMART utility that might tell you whether failure is imminent.

 

[Jim5506]

Not necessarily, Pepper - This error message is typically due to a file error, not the entire drive. If it's consistent on a DVR box, we can check the overall health of the box.

Brittany, have you seen the reports of a problem with PTAT on H383?
If you watch a program on PTAT and then want to watch the next program on PTAT, you cannot skip forward through the end of program time barrier. You must exit to the PTAT program listing and select the next program to have the skip forward utility available. You can just play through the time barrier but if you try to skip forward it jumps to the end of the previous program. This is similar to the previous problem in that I believe it only occurs while PTAT is recording. The next day or after PTAT has shut down the problem does not present itself.

 

[zippyfrog]

So if a user is seeing these, especially if there are a lot, and the recordings worked previously, that tells me the drive is failing.

Would this in itself be enough to warrant a receiver swap? Or does it have to fail completely first?

- note, after typing all that out, I did notice that OP's receiver is a 211k meaning the failing drive is his, not Dish's so that question would be more regarding the DVR receivers. Zippy, if the rest of the recordings on that drive are important to you, I'd look at cloning that drive because it's experiencing hardware failure which will likely eventually cause total loss.

In the past week, it has gotten a lot worse - it is now no longer the Dishscapes, but now all my older recordings. The recordings from the past month are all fine. But anything older than about a month to a month and a half ago, as soon as I click to watch on it, I get the error code 05 - all shows I know I have watched before multiple times. Oh well... I should have noticed something was wrong where my hard drive said there is 190 hours of HD space available when it was it was down to 75 hours and I was thinking about what I should do.

 

[Pepper]

In the past week, it has gotten a lot worse - it is now no longer the Dishscapes, but now all my older recordings. The recordings from the past month are all fine. But anything older than about a month to a month and a half ago, as soon as I click to watch on it, I get the error code 05 - all shows I know I have watched before multiple times. Oh well... I should have noticed something was wrong where my hard drive said there is 190 hours of HD space available when it was it was down to 75 hours and I was thinking about what I should do.

I wonder, is this the same or similar to the issue navychop was having?

 

[Almighty1]

I have a Error Code 05 on recordings as well on a Hopper 3 with Hopper Plus setup but that's because the nightly reboot happened when I was transferring recordings from the internal HDD to external HDD when it rebooted.

 

[zippyfrog]

I am looking at this some more - Sunday morning I had space for 190 hours of HD recordings. Previously, it was space for 75 hours of HD recordings. I have my daily sports show being recorded for the past 2 days (2 hours each), and my space is increasing. I am now at 230 hours 46 minutes of HD recording available. It is almost as if all the recordings older than 4 weeks were deleted, but the file names are still listed, and when I go to open the file, the file can't be found. Very strange. I don't believe there is any setting on the VIP211k that has a setting to delete recordings after X number of days - I believe the only setting is the number of recordings to keep is for the "Maximum Recorded Events", which I have set to # for the unlimited recordings.

My oldest recording that works is from 10/21.