Ah, I see, that does appear to be a 3.5 inch model. Won't fit in my laptop then. This might be a pain because we'd need a power brick and an adaptor to plug it in to USB. I have a power brick I can bring if needed.
Hamish On 26/02/2020 22:11, PeterMerchant via dorset wrote: > It's a standard size (3.5"?) disk out of a Humax 9150T which I seem to > remember has a proprietary format and is Western Digital WD1600AVVS > HDD 160GB. I think the AVVS nomenclature means that it is specially > for video security systems or something like that. > Peter. > > On 26/02/2020 21:30, Bob Dunlop wrote: >> Hi, >> >> An idea of which Humax model might have been useful. >> >> My Humax Foxsat HDR had a fairly conventional partition table and >> layout for a linux box. The notes from when I upgraded 300G to >> 1.5TB said the original was partitioned as follows: >> >> /dev/sdb1 2G ext3 >> /reserve.info 745920 bytes Recording reservation list. >> >> /dev/sdb2 99M ext3 >> /fsatepg/epg.dat 4413676 bytes Program guide data. >> >> /dev/sdb3 267G ext3 >> /Movie/ empty >> /Video/ Video streams >> >> /dev/sdb4 25G ext3 >> /Music/ empty >> /Photo/ empty >> >> I think you need to add the sparse_super and large_file flags when >> creating the filesystems but otherwise it was standard. >> >> Maybe the later models have a reserved boot space that needs to be >> skipped ? >> >> >> >> On Wed, Feb 26 at 05:14, PeterMerchant via dorset wrote: >>> Hi all, On tuesday I hope to remember to bring along a hard disk >>> from my PVR. it is formatted in a manner that I can't read except >>> with the Humaxrw utility in windows. If someone has a SATA >>> connection device?? I'll be interested to see if there is any way >>> you guys can devise to read it. > >
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