Originally posted by menace404:

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Hello all, I have a very intermittent (yet very annoying) problem when recording to my external 2tb harddrive connected via usb to my dm800hd. The prolem is after a day or two of being idle (not recording), I get a message that pops up the next time i want to record saying 'In order to record a timer, the tv was switched to the recording service'....and it wont record. What the hell does this error message mean?? There are no timer listings in my timer menu and the only thing that gets the record capabilities back again is to do a hard reset of my dm800hd which takes over 5mins to do (and my clients are none too pleased with me going offline in that time).
Does anyone know how to stop this error message from popping up? Do i need to configure my tuner in a special way (there is only one tuner in my dm800)? Do I need to set some special read/write permissions to directories on my harddrive via DCC??

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Originally posted by fintannl:

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this is not an error message. you have one tuner in the dm800 so when you want to record then your system is telling you that it must switch to the appropriate channel to record whatever you wish to record. it is an information message, nothing else. i ould suggest that you buy a hauppauge usb tuner in the back of your dm800, loop the signal from the primary tuner to this tuner and then you can record and watch as you wish

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Originally posted by Joseph90:

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Menace,
I am having identical problem with my 2 TB HDD (seagate model .. bought in Harvey Normans).
In fact now it wont record at all .. and wont initialise with msg: 'eror: mount failed'.

I am hoping Fintan has a solution !

j90

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Originally posted by Joseph90:

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m,

PS: What is the difference between mounting a HDD and initialising it ?

J90

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Originally posted by Joseph90:

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Ta M,

How do I put movie folder into root directory ?

Could u pls talk me through this process.

Thanks.

J90

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