Hi Peter, > 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.
Google suggests one cause is bad sectors that cause read delays/errors. Writing to those sectors will allow the drive to remap the logical sector to a new reserved physical one, if it has any left. The `quick' format the PVRs offers doesn't do that. > The hard disk is a WD1600AVVS ... > I attached it to my computer and it is not seen. Gparted shows the > disk as unformatted. So it is seen in that it appears as /dev/sdb, or similar, but there doesn't appear to be a partition table that gparted recognises. Try `sudo file -s /dev/sdb' and see if file(1) recognises the first few bytes, though it can give misleading results. If not, the output of `sudo hexdump -Cn512 /dev/sdb' can be interesting. > 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] Google suggests `humaxrw' is a command-line program for reading and writing to that disk. https://myhumax.org/forum/topic/humaxrw Copying off all the programs, have Linux write to every logical sector, and then the Humax format it, before copying the programs back *might* help the skipping problem. All at your own risk. :-) > 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. Yes, it should do. Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: BEC, Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2019-02-05 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk
