Yep, it will most certainly need to format the drive in order to make it Dish Friendly and DRM compliant.
Updated 622 External Storage Information
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Bingo! We have already seen how many great concepts have been crippled by ill conceived DRM schemes. Heck you STILL can't really buy legal music with DRM and actually make it work on a variety of different players successfully.
I have one and will be thoroughly testing it out the day I get ExtDrive functioning on my 622.
Actually, after reading the preliminary info in the PUB, it looks like Dish is prepared to make your replacement 622 work with your archive drives.
I was also concerned about this bit of news but not after looking at something official.
I'm ready to archive! And not a gigabyte too soon!
I installed my Seagate 500GB Freeagent this morning and dish reformatted it and then does a system reboot. Now just have to wait till 15th to activate it.
Bill
And if you connect to PC the formatted disk and run EFSexplorer, what would be a snapshot from it ?
I am not familliar with EFSexplorer and the only thing I see on google is ESF Key. Not sure if that is what you are refering to? Under computer management in windows the drive shows as 2 partitions. one @ 1.01gb and the other @ 464.75gb. file system is blank and status is healthy(unknown Partition).
Bill
Using BootIt NG the partitions are listed as being "Linux Native" with file system identifier "131/83h".
131/83h is indeed a linux native file system. This should be easy to read on my linux box (I don't HAVE a windows box, but....)
has anyone compiled a list of Sever Class / raid quality HDD yet....
I know they cost more BUT you get what you pay for right?
I know they cost more BUT you get what you pay for right?
No, but atleast APPLE for example, allows you to transfer your itunes to a different IPOD or computer, by deauthorizing one computer and reauthorizing another one.
That is what I would like Dish to do, incase of a 622HD crash.
Otherwise archiving is pretty worthless.
Lets just hope this is a short-term issue, and they make it account based very soon. But as of now, we don't have anything yet, so still speculation.
Lets just hope this is a short-term issue, and they make it account based very soon. But as of now, we don't have anything yet, so still speculation.
I agree. Hopefully this will be fixed ASAP!!!! This will be huge for crashed boxes.
Not always true, John. I installed mine without much of a verbal fight over the phone. Once they knew I had always done my installs (and owned everything other than their one leased receiver), they were happy to just send me the 622 for self-install.
Bob
I tried that tactic. I reminded them that I installed my 622 and 211 (both owned) without any assistance. It went nowhere.
I just got a second 622 a couple of weeks ago and they asked me if I wanted to install it myself or if they should send a tech. They presumably had no way of knowing if I was capable of this miraculous feat (I was/am).
They absolutely refused to just send me the receiver so this Sunday at noon the guy arrived and we installed it. He opened the box and did the paperwork. I did the rest.
What about the 222? I'd rather use that, since it has DishCOMM and the 211 doesn't.
Will the 222 get external hard drive capability?
Another question... when you have a 211 or 222 with external hard drive capability, will it be able to record to the drive, or just play back?
