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Old 23-09-2012, 09:42
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My Humax Foxsat-HDR has started to behave strangely over the last couple of weeks:
- The HDD recordings list sometimes shows as completely empty, and does not recover until a reboot
- I am unable to delete a recording, or the folder in which it's stored - I get the error messase "cannot delete due to file restrictions"
- Scheduled recordings are randomly being ignored (i.e. not recorded).

I'm running the latest Humax software 1.0.21, and have had a Samsung 2Tb drive in the machine for a couple of years without any problems.
I notice from this forum that others have had similar problems in the past, but have not found anybody who has diagnosed or resolved it.
Does anyone have any more insight into what causes these sorts of problems?
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Old 23-09-2012, 09:46
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My Humax Foxsat-HDR has started to behave strangely over the last couple of weeks:
- The HDD recordings list sometimes shows as completely empty, and does not recover until a reboot
- I am unable to delete a recording, or the folder in which it's stored - I get the error messase "cannot delete due to file restrictions"
- Scheduled recordings are randomly being ignored (i.e. not recorded).

I'm running the latest Humax software 1.0.21, and have had a Samsung 2Tb drive in the machine for a couple of years without any problems.
I notice from this forum that others have had similar problems in the past, but have not found anybody who has diagnosed or resolved it.
Does anyone have any more insight into what causes these sorts of problems?
I suspect disk errors. However you could try factory reset (you will loose the schedule) just to rule out some other problems.
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Old 23-09-2012, 09:46
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My suspicion would be either a corrupt file system or failing hard drive.
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Old 23-09-2012, 16:46
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I've now done the following and the problems remain:
- Removed drive and run Spinrite on it to check for disk errors (level 2)
- Run fsck (in Ubuntu) to check/repair file consistency
- Humax factory reset.

???
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Old 23-09-2012, 16:49
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I've now done the following and the problems remain:
- Removed drive and run Spinrite on it to check for disk errors (level 2)
- Run fsck (in Ubuntu) to check/repair file consistency
- Humax factory reset.

???
What did fsck find ?
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Old 23-09-2012, 16:56
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First time around it found a long list of things - media errors, etc. I had it set to auto-fix everything it found. 2nd time it found nothing.
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Old 24-09-2012, 10:24
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- The HDD recordings list sometimes shows as completely empty, and does not recover until a reboot
I had a similar symptom to this, which in my case occurred once the HDR tried to record on a failed part of the drive. I posted about it here: http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1711794

I managed to use the manufacturer's diagnostic tools to map out the bad sectors and it's been OK for the couple of months since.
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Old 26-09-2012, 00:16
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For what it's worth, I had similar problems with recording list showing empty. It was suggested that the hard drive might be failing. I reformatted the drive and since then have not had any problems.
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