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    Has anyone been successful doing this with PLi?
    I've tried connecting a External HD with movies to my Vu last night (tried front and rear USB ports) but the mediaplayer would not see this external HD. It only sees the internal drive and flash.
    Am I missing something?
    The same external HD plays fine when I connect it to my Astone mediaplayer.



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    Plug in your hard disk and do
    root@vuduo ~ # ls /dev/sd*
    /dev/sda1
    root@vuduo ~ #
    If you see sda1, your disk is being recognised.

    The mount command will show you if it has been mounted. eg:


    root@vuduo ~ # mount
    rootfs on / type rootfs (rw)
    /dev/root on / type jffs2 (rw)
    proc on /proc type proc (rw)
    tmpfs on /dev type tmpfs (rw)
    devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw)
    sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
    /dev/sda1 on /media/hdd type ext3 (rw,data=ordered)
    usbdevfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
    /dev/mtdblock2 on /boot type jffs2 (ro)
    tmpfs on /var type tmpfs (rw)
    tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (rw)
    /dev/sdb1 on /media/usb type ext3 (rw,data=ordered)
    root@vuduo ~ #

    NB I have an internal HDD (/dev/sda1) and an external thumb drive (/dev/sdb1)

    Also, the disk has to be formatted as a unix drive (ext3) not DOS

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    Thanks jgm, get the exact same reply as you except for the last line /dev/sdb1 on /media/usb type ext3 (rw,data=ordered)
    so it looks like it's not recognizing the external hard drive.
    It's a 1TB HD full of movies and yes I'd say it's formatted in DOS
    So there goes that idea

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    In my previous post I assumed you ONLY had an external disk. Your first HDD (ie the internal drive) will be /dev/sda1, the second will be /dev/sdb1. So you should be seeing /dev/sdb1 with an ls.

    You should be able to check the format with fdisk - ie

    root@vuduo ~ # fdisk /dev/sdb

    The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 1125.
    There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
    and could in certain setups cause problems with:
    1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
    2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
    (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)

    Command (m for help): q

    root@vuduo ~ #


    NB use /dev/sdb not /dev/sdb1
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    I get unable to open /dev/sdb

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    Do you see /dev/sdb1?

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    Quote Originally Posted by jgm View Post
    Do you see /dev/sdb1?
    No

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    When you plug your usb drive into one of the rear ports, /dev/sdb1 should show up. Is it powered externally?

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    Quote Originally Posted by jgm View Post
    When you plug your usb drive into one of the rear ports, /dev/sdb1 should show up. Is it powered externally?
    Nothing shows up at all when I plug an externally powered HD into any of the USB slots. I've tried two separate hard drives both externally powered.
    Would it have anything to do with the fact that I'm using the PLi image posted by sandery which was enabled for the Avlabs terrestrial tuner?

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    That may well be the problem. I'm on OpenPLi 2010-05-21. Just go to the pli-images website & get the latest OpenPLi V1 current E2 release for the Vu+Duo(usb) -> 20100912.
    Last edited by jgm; 05-12-10 at 12:40 AM.

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    Just to report back, after putting the current release firmware on the Vu it reads the external HD no problems.
    Thanks for your advice and suggestions jgm

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