Humax PVR 9150T

John_Gray

It seems, similar to the inconsistency between the various 'up' and 'down' functions on the remote, that various Humax PVR models can use different hard drive formatting. There is certainly a 'format' function in my 9200, but what this actually does to the disk is not defined - it may do more, or less, than a Windows format...

JJ_Egan

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D_M_E

To use the humaxrw utility you have to remove the HD and put it in a caddy or spare slot in a PC.

Think the disc is a FAT12 format - most, if not all - humax boxes have a disc format otion somewhere in the menu and the humaxrw utility gets the files off a lot quicker than the humax does the job itself.

Humaxrw also does a lot more than just get the files off.

John_Gray

D_M_E wrote: »

Think the disc is a FAT12 format

Highly unlikely, I would say - don't forget that FAT-12 was invented for floppy disks (diskettes) and had severe restuictions on file sizes and volume sizes...
Was your FAT-12 a typo for FAT-32?

D_M_E

No, FAT-12 was not a mistype - if you stick a humax-formatted drive in a spare slot in a PC the PC will not recognise it under any version of Windows and only some versions of Linux recognise the formatting.

EDIT - also, some of the filkes - depending on the length of the recording - on the humax disc can be over 8gig size. Don't know how it sticks big files like that on a FAT12 system.

psychic_teabag

John_Gray wrote: »

IThere is certainly a 'format' function in my 9200, but what this actually does to the disk is not defined - it may do more, or less, than a Windows format...

It does what any format command does - it performs whatever preparation is required to allow files to be stored by that OS on the disk.

It's pretty quick, so it's certainly not visiting every sector, or anything like that, but it doesn't take much work to simply record that all the sectors on the disk are free and available for use.

Oh, except for the bit it sets aside for the catch-up live stuff, of course.