Strange ff / rw problem

[Ford1]

My xtrend et8000 has developed a strange fault, only recently, when trying to either ff or rw through a recorded programm, anything above x8 speed causes the playback to either return to the start, or to "jump" rather than smooth motion.


I have a hdd from a sky +hd box 2tb in size, when I try to check filesystem it says it cannot unmounts the drive, is there anyway using telnet commands I can do this via my pc?

 

[abu baniaz]

Which image version?

 

[Ford1]

still on 037,, was planning on jumping to 4 this weekend, just need to find out how to save my autotimers, as I belive they get lost in the upgrade?

Anyhow back to this problem, im running 037, I have timeshift enabled, I have samba enabled, my picons and epg dat are saved to my usb, any more info required?

 

[abu baniaz]

The reason you cannot unmount the HDD is that it in use for the auto-started timeshift.

If you create a settings a backup before flashing a new image, you can restore them to new image. There is a change to the ffwd/rewind code, it is not yet in public image.

Please note:

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[birdman]

I have a hdd from a sky +hd box 2tb in size, when I try to check filesystem it says it cannot unmounts the drive, is there anyway using telnet commands I can do this via my pc?

It can only unmount he drive to check it if it is not in use.

• Are you using timeshift?
• Are you using a swapfile?

Both use files on the HDD.

Sorry for the duplicated explanation - I though I'd reached the end of the thread - but hadn't.

 

[Rob van der Does]

It can only unmount he drive to check it if it is not in use.

• Are you using timeshift?
• Are you using a swapfile?

Both use files on the HDD.

Or picons on HDD or debuglogs

 

[Ford1]

As stated picons are stored on usb, as is epg, I had tried to disable timeshist autostart and then restarted the box, still wouldn't unmounts. this is why I asked if I could do it through putty.

I shall upgrade to the latest version this week and report back if I have any problems.

 

[Rob van der Does]

Go to ViX-mountmanager, setup an USB-stick as HDD and save. After the reboot use 'unmount' for the internal HDD.
Don't forget to restore previous settings when done.

 

[birdman]

this is why I asked if I could do it through putty.

You can, but you'll have the same problem in the you still need to unmount it first.
If you login you could try:

cat /proc/swaps

to see whether you have a swapfile on the partition

fuser -m /media/hdd

to see which process(es) have files open on it and, if any are reported,

cd /proc/<pid-no>
grep /media/hdd maps
ls -l fd | grep /media/hdd

to see which file it is