hi archie
glad the partitions are sorted
/tmp/usbmounts/sda1 is the correct path to the first usb drive btw.

Andy

Hi Andy,

Well, that is my problem, I just realized that my USB drive is sometime on sda1/sda2 and sometime on sdb1/sdb2 - and it keep changing randomly.

FYI: even I have only 1 USB thumbdrive plugged into my PoHD Player on its side USB ports (the top one).

How to keep my USB thumbdrive to always has on sda1 and sda2?

And even though I can see the second partition on my PoHD player, it seems that it is not write-able?

Thanks again

Arc.

Hi archie
I'm not sure how or why the drive keeps changing on the player - mine does not. In terms of the patition not being readable, what type of file system and partition have you created?
You could always use fidsk from linux to create the second partition

Andy

Hi Archie - did your problem get resolved?

Hello Andy, Thanks for getting back to me on this.
I'm not doing anything yet on this matter for now - I will touch back again someday later.
Thanks again, sir.
Rgds, Arch.

No problem Archie - I'll leave the topic open for a while. In the event it's locked and you want to start work on it again, either create a new topic or send me a PM and I'll unlock it
Andy

Sure, I will do.
Cheers...

Hi Andy,

I have recently trying to work on this thread-post advices and managed to get all sorted out including your advices to add these lines into srC inside the PlayOn player itself through vi command.

sleep 30
mount -t cifs //192.168.1.68/movies /mnt/usbmounts/sda1/movies -o ro,username=guest
mount -t cifs //192.168.1.68/jukebox /mnt/usbmounts/sda2/jukebox -o username=guest

Now I have questions just to be sure I'm compiling correctly the folder as you specifically mentioned that my movies in my NAS is placed all into one folder called "movies" - which is not the case actually.

My movies are placed into various folders according to their type and resolution besides I have 3 NAS actually ) Their IP Address: 192.168.2.234 and .235 and .236.

And the movies inside each NAS are foldered into:
1. Full-HD
2. Documentaries
3. Children-Movies
4. TVSerials

What do I need to do so that they are accessible into the advices on this thread?
Do I need to just compile them into a single Jukebox so that the Library in the "YAMJ" Compiler will need to cover those movies locations?
Or I can split them even into different set-of-2-folders (movies-jukebox) in my thumbdrive for each of the Movies locations in each NAS?
I have 2 partitions in my thumbdrive - each partition size at about 8GB as sda1 and sda2.

Thanks - and very sorry to know my complex situation here.

Best Regards, Arc.

Hi Archi, I use something like this in my library file...

<!-- Modified GregiBoy 04/06/2012 -->

<libraries>
<library>
<path>M:\Movies\Archived</path>
<playerpath>file://../../../../tmp/usbmounts/sda7/Kaiboer/usb1/Movies/Archived/</playerpath>
<exclude name="sample,tmp/,temp/,RECYCLE.BIN/"/>
<description>3.Archived</description>
<prebuf></prebuf>
<scrapeLibrary>false</scrapeLibrary>
</library>
<library>
<path>M:\Movies\New</path>
<playerpath>file://../../../../tmp/usbmounts/sda7/Kaiboer/usb1/Movies/New/</playerpath>
<exclude name="sample,tmp/,temp/,RECYCLE.BIN/"/>
<description>1.New</description>
<prebuf></prebuf>
<scrapeLibrary>false</scrapeLibrary>
</library>
<library>
<path>M:\Movies\Added</path>
<playerpath>file://../../../../tmp/usbmounts/sda7/Kaiboer/usb1/Movies/Added/</playerpath>
<exclude name="sample,tmp/,temp/,RECYCLE.BIN/"/>
<description>2.Added</description>
<prebuf></prebuf>
<scrapeLibrary>false</scrapeLibrary>
</library>
<library>
<path>M:\Movies\Concerts</path>
<playerpath>file://../../../../tmp/usbmounts/sda7/Kaiboer/usb1/Movies/Concerts/</playerpath>
<exclude name="sample,tmp/,temp/,RECYCLE.BIN/"/>
<description>4.Concerts</description>
<prebuf></prebuf>
<scrapeLibrary>false</scrapeLibrary>
</library>
<library>
<path>T:\TV\Airing</path>
<playerpath>file://../../../../tmp/usbmounts/sda7/TV/Airing/</playerpath>
<exclude name="sample,tmp/,temp/,RECYCLE.BIN/"/>
<description>Airing</description>
<prebuf></prebuf>
<scrapeLibrary>true</scrapeLibrary>
</library>
<library>
<path>T:\TV\Break</path>
<playerpath>file://../../../../tmp/usbmounts/sda7/TV/Break/</playerpath>
<exclude name="sample,tmp/,temp/,RECYCLE.BIN/"/>
<description>Break</description>
<prebuf></prebuf>
<scrapeLibrary>true</scrapeLibrary>
</library>
<library>
<path>T:\TV\Finished</path>
<playerpath>file://../../../../tmp/usbmounts/sda7/TV/Finished/</playerpath>
<exclude name="sample,tmp/,temp/,RECYCLE.BIN/"/>
<description>Finished</description>
<prebuf></prebuf>
<scrapeLibrary>true</scrapeLibrary>
</library>
</libraries>

I use a script like this to make sure that the drives are ready and mounted when they are ready otherwise it all turns to crap... And run the script at the end of rcS.

#!/bin/ash

#Check that the USB attached drive is alive and has the correct directory
sleep 60
LOGFILE=/tmp/log/mountkaiboer.log
DIR1=/tmp/usbmounts/sda7/Kaiboer
STATUS=Z
date 1>$LOGFILE
if [ -d $DIR1 ]; then
echo $DIR1 " exists." 1>>$LOGFILE
STATUS=A
else
i=1
until [ -d $DIR1 ] ; do
let i+=1 ; sleep 1
echo $i 1>>$LOGFILE
if [ $i -ge 120 ] ; then
echo $DIR1 " does not exist." 1>>$LOGFILE
STATUS=B
break ;
fi
done
fi
echo $STATUS 1>>$LOGFILE
if test $STATUS = "A"
then
echo "USB Directory Exists" 1>>$LOGFILE
#Now check that NAS is alive
ping 10.1.1.240 1>>$LOGFILE
pingstatus=$?
if test $pingstatus -eq 0
then
echo "NAS Alive" 1>>$LOGFILE
mount -t cifs -o username=root,password=smb123,RO, //10.1.1.240/dev /tmp/usbmounts/sda7/Kaiboer
mountstatus=$?
if test $mountstatus -eq 0
then
echo "NAS Mounted" 1>>$LOGFILE
else
echo "NAS Mount Error" 1>>$LOGFILE
fi
else
echo "NAS not Active" 1>>$LOGFILE
fi
else
echo "USB Drive does not Exist" 1>>$LOGFILE
echo "No attempt to mount NAS" 1>>$LOGFILE
fi

Hope this helps.
Regards
Greg..

Hi Greg,

Thanks a millions - I didn't notice there is a reply in my post.
I will have a try to follow your footstep above and will do configuration.
If I might stuck somewhere - I think I will need a fresh firmware to flush my player firmware.
And I have prepared the thumbdrive for this purpose too.

Thanks again Greg.

Best Regards, Arc.