...and, just to clarify (for anyone reading this thread who hasn't read the software update thread) this applies to all models of Hopper (including Hopper Duo) except the original Hopper.Come to the Dark Side, now with 7 TB EHD Support!!!
Yay :(
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I wonder if that “chipset limitation” was only for the internal drives?
"Not included in this release." So I presume 7TB will be possible for the H2K in a future release.
My big question is why 7 TB? Why not 8 TB, which is a size you can actually buy?
(speaking of which, Amazon had an 8 TB external drive for $134, so we’ll see if it works on the Hopper 3!)
(speaking of which, Amazon had an 8 TB external drive for $134, so we’ll see if it works on the Hopper 3!)
I just plugged in a brand new Seagate USB3 6TB drive into my H3 and nothing happened. I am now getting the update as we "speak".
Or possibly, 7TB was already quietly rolled out for the original Hopper in a previous release, and nobody here knew anything about it. Can you imagine the outcry here if that had happened? "If the friggin' Hopper 1 can do this, then why can't my snazzy state-of-the-art Hopper 3?"
Somehow, I doubt that. There must be a reason why the Wally was capped at 4TB, so I think that at least for some receivers, there is still a chipset limitation. Specifically, I could see Dish justifying capping the Hopper EHD's at 2TB due to chipset limitations of the ViP DVR's, and needing to ensure compatibility. In other words, in the early days of the Hopper, it is quite possible that a customer might upgrade to a Hopper, fill up an EHD with a bunch of stuff, and then decide that they really don't like the Hopper very well, so they downgrade back to a ViP DVR. Even to this day, that scenario may still play out if the Hopper dies, and the customer happens to still have a purchased ViP DVR laying around, so they temporarily switch back to the ViP DVR while they are waiting for the replacement Hopper. Imagine if Dish had supported much larger EHD's for the Hopper, and then the customer hooks it up to the ViP DVR, only to find that most of their recordings are inaccessible, or that they cannot actually play anything at all. That customer would probably be pretty ticked-off, and justifiably so. With that scenario becoming more and more rare these days, though, perhaps it was finally time to ignore the ViP compatibility issue, and go ahead and roll out the larger EHD support for the Hoppers.
I'm up to 547 and my 6TB Seagate still does not show up. My AirTV adapter does show up, and I plugged that into the front of the Seagate. I don't think that's the problem...
I realized I was in the wrong thread so I went to the right thread where I have resolved this issue.
Going to the right thread will usually have that effect.I realized I was in the wrong thread so I went to the right thread where I have resolved this issue.
What did you do fix the issue?I realized I was in the wrong thread so I went to the right thread where I have resolved this issue.
Software U547 on Hopper3
Started the update 85 mins ago and it has been on this screen for 35 mins. Normally it doesn't take this long. Any ideas how long it takes for this newest updatel Mine took 20 minutes with no issues
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The bigger EHD they are, the harder they crash.
Still don't have a useable OTA tuner, but everything else has come back to life.
Still don't have a useable OTA tuner, but everything else has come back to life.
Unfortunately, this still could be a sign that your receiver is starting to fail. The problem you describe in your original post sounds a lot like what my ViP211 with a built-in OTA tuner did, right before it started to die.The bigger EHD they are, the harder they crash.
Still don't have a useable OTA tuner, but everything else has come back to life.
