Hi.

First time post, searched the forums for this but can't see it.

Have had POHD2 with 2TB internal drive for about a week now with 7716 firmware. Not using Windows so have added EXT3 partition to drive and mounted to HDD1 using rcS as follows but, although file manager works to browse and play files, the movie/music/pictures menus don't pick them up.

sleep 60
mount /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part4 /tmp/hdd/volumes/HDD1

Should I mount the partition somewhere else or is there another trick to have the files scanned and added?

Thx.

Allan.

Scanning and other menu drive file operations are restricted to the NTFS partition of the internal hard drive, which must be present as the first partition on your drive. The NTFS partition must be at least 16 MB.

Thanks for confirming it isn't possible. Saves further messing about.

I was hoping it might have been possible to mount in some way to pretend it was a USB or NAS drive as they seem to scan ok.

Allan.

Hi

If you have an NTFS partition on your hard drive, mount the EXT3 partition onto a folder on the NTFS drive.
This way the POHD will think it is part of the NTFS drive and scan it.
You can use the same trick for NAS shares as well

Andy

your mounting this at the same position as the system.

No need to have a NTFS partition, Probably need some trying
As andy suggest create a mount point within HDD1
or
I have HFS+ (apple) as my main partition. No NTFS at all working fine with 7716.
So worth trying to replace NTFS with HFS+ or Ext3

What do you have?

JR

Hi Andy and JR.

Aha, as I mentioned above I was hoping someone would know of a way to trick the system

I'd like to try JR's suggestion first as it seems 'cleaner' somehow with Andy's as a backup just in case I have problems. JR, if I remove the NTFS one and extend the EXT3 down to block 2 it looks like I may be ok and will end up with this as the first partition on the drive? Here the partition table from fdisk. Is this how you did it?

Thanks to you both.

Allan.

/ # fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 2000.3 GB, 2000398934016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 243201 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 2 129 1024159+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2 242596 242612 136552+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/sda3 242613 242678 530145 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 129 242595 1947611136 83 Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order

Hope you get it all working
I have several NAS shares automounted at startup. and the player will scan them as well.
Andy

Reformat the disk again using the POHD
You have then 3 partitions
1 NTFS
2 Swap
3 ext3 mounted at /tmp/hdd/root

After that reformat partition NTFS to ext3 so that you have
1 Ext3
2 Swap
3 ext3 mounted at /tmp/hdd/root

or
reformat the first partition to ext3
So you will have
1 Ext3
2 Swap
3 ext3 mounted at /tmp/hdd/root
4 ext3 mounted at ???

I would prefer the first method I suggested.

JR

Hi JR.

I've just tried your first suggestion by reformatting the drive using the POHD menu. I then formatted the NTFS partition as EXT3 using gparted and then remounted it and copied a small music folder onto it. Apart from the POHD saying it wanted to format the drive on startup, which I then switched off in the menu, the system didn't recognise the drive. Here's the partition table now:

/ # fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sdb: 2000.3 GB, 2000398934016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 243201 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 2 242595 1948636305 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 242596 242612 136552+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/sdb3 242613 242678 530145 83 Linux
/ #

Was really hoping this would work as linux desktop + linux player with linux partitions feels right somehow.

Have you any suggestions to try as it sounds like you have it working ok?

Thanks.

Allan.

Oops, forgot to mention, I didn't alter anything at first then I mounted part1 on HDD1 which succeeded as far as mounting it but the POHD didn't recognise it as all. No HDD in the file manager

rcS:

sleep 60
mount /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 /tmp/hdd/volumes/HDD1

mount:

/ # mount
/dev/root on / type squashfs (ro)
none on /dev type devfs (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw,nodiratime)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw)
none on /sys type sysfs (rw)
none on /tmp type ramfs (rw)
/dev/mtdblock/2 on /usr/local/etc type yaffs (rw,noatime)
/dev/rd/0 on /mnt/rd type vfat (rw,nodiratime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1)
/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 on /tmp/hdd/volumes/HDD1 type ext3 (rw,recovery)
/ #