Fix Hard Drive not detected in Device Manager with Telnet Commands

These are the commands I found to format an external penstick USB or HDD to Fat Ext3 through Linux.

I have used a USB stick as an example. But you can replace usb for hdd

Note : anything on the USB/HDD will be eliminated.

Unmount the unit.

umount /dev/sda1

Format the unit in Ext3 through linux.

mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda1

Mount the usb/hdd.

mount /dev/sda1 /media/usb

Create a folder called Movie for the recordings.

mkdir /media/usb/movie

Chmod to 777 for the recordings ,etc.

chmod 777 /media/usb/movie

Hope it helps someone as it helped me!

Excellent post and saved me a lot of hassle, I have one small problem which is probably only because I am not that familiar with the operating system
I had to power down and reboot the box and after I had done that the hard drive had disappeared. I got it back by typing via telnet
mount /dev/sda1 /media/hdd
Is there a way of stopping this from happening?
regards
dcw

Quote from dcwuk

Excellent post and saved me a lot of hassle, I have one small problem which is probably only because I am not that familiar with the operating system
I had to power down and reboot the box and after I had done that the hard drive had disappeared. I got it back by typing via telnet
mount /dev/sda1 /media/hdd
Is there a way of stopping this from happening?
regards
dcw

depending on image ,but if in BH then blue-blue : devices manager : map it (mounting as media/hdd for example)
or BLUE-blue : HARD DRIVE SETTINGS,,SET IT UP AS YOU LIKE..
ALWAYS give it a full reboot after changing any settings..

Thank you I will give it a try but the hard drive is already mounted as fixed

Nice info on formatting here. I followed the first post as the BH image i used keeps dropping the hard drive. I still cant see it mounted in the image, but the recording path is working.

Only downside is i cannot see it when i ftp inside of it if i wanted to backup my recordings etc.

I can see the drive via ftp which is a bonus my only issue is that every now and again the drive for want of a better word "unmounts itself" and I have to remount it via ftp.
Don't know why it does that because its a fixed mount but I can live with it.

root@dm800:~# umount /dev/sda1
umount: can't umount /dev/sda1: No such file or directory
root@dm800:~# mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda1
-sh: mkfs.ext3: not found
root@dm800:~# mount /dev/sda1 /media/usb
ntfs-3g: Failed to access volume '/dev/sda1': No such file or directory

ntfs-3g 2013.1.13 integrated FUSE 27 - Third Generation NTFS Driver
Configuration type 1, XATTRS are on, POSIX ACLS are off

Copyright (C) 2005-2007 Yura Pakhuchiy
Copyright (C) 2006-2009 Szabolcs Szakacsits
Copyright (C) 2007-2012 Jean-Pierre Andre
Copyright (C) 2009 Erik Larsson

Usage: ntfs-3g [-o option[,...]] <device|image_file> <mount_point>

Options: ro (read-only mount), windows_names, uid=, gid=,
umask=, fmask=, dmask=, streams_interface=.
Please see the details in the manual (type: man ntfs-3g).

Example: ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/windows

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mount: mounting /dev/sda1 on /media/usb failed: No such file or directory
root@dm800:~# mkdir /media/usb/movie
mkdir: can't create directory '/media/usb/movie': No such file or directory
root@dm800:~# chmod 777 /media/usb/movie
chmod: /media/usb/movie: No such file or directory

this is the message i get with this tutorial but both the hdd and usb are recognised in the menu/setup/system/harddisk folder but wont let me mount or initialize please can somebody help me

This worked a treat thanks for the info

Quote from dcwuk

I can see the drive via ftp which is a bonus my only issue is that every now and again the drive for want of a better word "unmounts itself" and I have to remount it via ftp.
Don't know why it does that because its a fixed mount but I can live with it.

it's driver issues mate try different image , i had that once or twice

wow how old this thread? i spent hours with various images to mount a usb stick a 8gb cruzer wow finally done, boy that was a chore a big thank you for commands i done it. initially didnt do it but formatted drive to ntfs and it did it straight away next thing to do is try another box with same image and see if it will mount image when it already ntfs i believe after all this was because usb stick was formatted fat32 will try and update post.

thanks again!

Quote from sailsy

wow how old this thread? i spent hours with various images to mount a usb stick a 8gb cruzer wow finally done, boy that was a chore a big thank you for commands i done it. initially didnt do it but formatted drive to ntfs and it did it straight away next thing to do is try another box with same image and see if it will mount image when it already ntfs i believe after all this was because usb stick was formatted fat32 will try and update post.

thanks again!

That´s what the searchbar top right is for buddy...
when you cannot find something straight away , you type in key words in the searchbar and anything related will show up..
Glad to hear you got it sorted !!