Just wanted to post an update here folks.
Back in January, I asked if there was a way to move recordings from one ERD/HDD to another (see thread here).
Well, it was a long process over this past week off and on (mostly due to my inexperience with Linux), but by using Knoppix I was able to get all the programs from the two Seagate FreeAgent 500 drives I have as ERD's to my confirmed working 1TB drive JBOD array. I'm using two WD 5000YS drives in this Vantec NexStar MX dual SATA case.
The Vantec case has an internal switch to set the JBOD mode off/on and it will support 1TB drives for a 2TB JBOD. It also has its own power switch. Once I had the JBOD set up, I hooked it to the 622 to allow the receiver to initialize the drives. The ERD's use the Linux EXT3 file system.
Once I got it back to my desktop, I used a program called Explore2fs in Windows to look at the partitions. There were two created on the Seagate 500's - one that was very small (~1MB) and the other used the remainder with the programs being stored in a directory named "DishArc". The New Vantec JBOD had three partitions - ~1MB, ~500GB, ~497GB, which had the same DishArc directory in both of them.
Where I had my trouble was getting all the permissions to work in Koppix. Anyone with Linux experience should have no trouble at all. Basically, the ERD's owner in Linux is "root" and the default in Knoppix is knoppix. I had to do a lot of searching in Google to get back to the KDE as root, but once I was there, I just had to mount the drives as read/write and start copying data. Once the first 500GB partition was full, I just started dumping to the 497GB.
After getting all the data copied over, I just went out to the 622 about 30 minutes ago and plugged it in. The receiver popped up a message about the ERD's only being able to work on one recevier at a time and if I wanted to access the programs stored on this one. I said yes and about 30 seconds later I had access to all 172 recordings from both my old Seagate ERD's.
Now, for those of you that have used the Seagate FreeAgent (which seems to be quite a few based on my recollection of the posts flying about having the drive spindown turned off), the drive inside the FreeAgent is a Seagate Barricuda 7200.10 SATA II 3G. I will most likely be creating another JBOD using my two drives from inside the FreeAgent cases, so just thought I would pass that tidbit on.
The next thing I wanted to point out was a ThermalTake external SATA docking station that would probably be most excellent for expanding collections of ERD programs. Just drop in a SATA drive and start transferring stuff over. This also has a dedicated power switch.
I know I probably babbled and probably confused some in this, but please let me know if you have any thoughts or questions. I don't believe anything I did was against the TOS with Dish Network, but if so mods please let me know and amend my posting.
Enjoy and I hope this helps some people out there!
Steve
Back in January, I asked if there was a way to move recordings from one ERD/HDD to another (see thread here).
Well, it was a long process over this past week off and on (mostly due to my inexperience with Linux), but by using Knoppix I was able to get all the programs from the two Seagate FreeAgent 500 drives I have as ERD's to my confirmed working 1TB drive JBOD array. I'm using two WD 5000YS drives in this Vantec NexStar MX dual SATA case.
The Vantec case has an internal switch to set the JBOD mode off/on and it will support 1TB drives for a 2TB JBOD. It also has its own power switch. Once I had the JBOD set up, I hooked it to the 622 to allow the receiver to initialize the drives. The ERD's use the Linux EXT3 file system.
Once I got it back to my desktop, I used a program called Explore2fs in Windows to look at the partitions. There were two created on the Seagate 500's - one that was very small (~1MB) and the other used the remainder with the programs being stored in a directory named "DishArc". The New Vantec JBOD had three partitions - ~1MB, ~500GB, ~497GB, which had the same DishArc directory in both of them.
Where I had my trouble was getting all the permissions to work in Koppix. Anyone with Linux experience should have no trouble at all. Basically, the ERD's owner in Linux is "root" and the default in Knoppix is knoppix. I had to do a lot of searching in Google to get back to the KDE as root, but once I was there, I just had to mount the drives as read/write and start copying data. Once the first 500GB partition was full, I just started dumping to the 497GB.
After getting all the data copied over, I just went out to the 622 about 30 minutes ago and plugged it in. The receiver popped up a message about the ERD's only being able to work on one recevier at a time and if I wanted to access the programs stored on this one. I said yes and about 30 seconds later I had access to all 172 recordings from both my old Seagate ERD's.
Now, for those of you that have used the Seagate FreeAgent (which seems to be quite a few based on my recollection of the posts flying about having the drive spindown turned off), the drive inside the FreeAgent is a Seagate Barricuda 7200.10 SATA II 3G. I will most likely be creating another JBOD using my two drives from inside the FreeAgent cases, so just thought I would pass that tidbit on.
The next thing I wanted to point out was a ThermalTake external SATA docking station that would probably be most excellent for expanding collections of ERD programs. Just drop in a SATA drive and start transferring stuff over. This also has a dedicated power switch.
I know I probably babbled and probably confused some in this, but please let me know if you have any thoughts or questions. I don't believe anything I did was against the TOS with Dish Network, but if so mods please let me know and amend my posting.
Enjoy and I hope this helps some people out there!
Steve
I thought I had done something!
