Hi Peter
On 04/02/2019 11:10, PeterMerchant via dorset wrote:
My Humax 9150T PVR is starting to give problems on playback where it skips and
hesitates and sometimes the sound is out of sync with the video. Yes it is
quite old. I bought a second one recently to use for a replacement hard disk,
but it worked so well I put in use on the downstairs TV for the grandchildren.
The hard disk is a WD1600AVVS where the AV indicates that it is built for AudioVisual purposes such as security monitors etc. It's 160GB. I attached it to my computer and it is not seen. Gparted shows the disk as unformatted.>
Q1. Is there a utility or Distro that can read this disk? I would like to copy off the programs if I can. [The Humax only has a serial port for communications, and no means of exporting programs]
Presumably you could just use dd for this but it will need to be readable of
course.
Q2. If I buy a new disk, is there anything that will format it appropriately?
The Humax does have a format disk option, so perhaps that would do it.
I used to have one of these and yes, from memory you just use that. However, in
my case the problem was failure of the electrolytic capacitors in the power
supply (several of them were underspec'd). I replaced all of them and got a
couple of extra years of life out of the machine, before it finally failed for
good.
Cheers
Tim
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