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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