[jmathey]

Hello Guru's,

I had an hr21-100 with an external drive in a Kingwin enclosure and it was working fine. Only problem is that it was getting extremely hot. So, I went out and purchased one with an active cooling mechanism ( ie: an 80mm fan ), put the drive in it, now the hr21 won't boot from it. Even when I put it back in the original enclosure.

I put the enclosure on a windows pc now using usb and it seems to work fine.

Any problems with swapping enclosures with data on an existing drive? Does the hr21 have a way of determining enclosures? I can't imagine that.

I've heard of forcing the hr21 to reformat an external drive, do you think that's worth a shot?

Any help would be appreciated..

Thanks in advance
John

 

[schneid]

Hello Guru's,

I had an hr21-100 with an external drive in a Kingwin enclosure and it was working fine. Only problem is that it was getting extremely hot. So, I went out and purchased one with an active cooling mechanism ( ie: an 80mm fan ), put the drive in it, now the hr21 won't boot from it. Even when I put it back in the original enclosure.

I put the enclosure on a windows pc now using usb and it seems to work fine.

Any problems with swapping enclosures with data on an existing drive? Does the hr21 have a way of determining enclosures? I can't imagine that.

I've heard of forcing the hr21 to reformat an external drive, do you think that's worth a shot?

Any help would be appreciated..

Thanks in advance
John

A Vista PC will change the drive so it should be reformatted when hooked back up to an HRXX. If you are using XP, you might try deleting the Windows partition before taking it back to the HRXX.

I don't know how to force an HRXX format. It happens automatically if your HRXX doesn't like the layout of the drive. Vista will do that as soon as it reads the drive.

The replacement case may have had one of the troublesome controller boards making the drive invisible to your HRXX.

As for why it won't work in the original enclosure could be lots of things. Are all the cables firmly connected? Did you put everything back together correctly? Does it have power? Did you start the eSATA first, then the HRXX. Have you tried a Menu Reset? A Red Button Reset? Unplugged both the HRXX and the eSATA , then plugged in the eSATA, followed by the HRXX?

You might want to buy an Antec MX-1 as they seem to work well with all the drives. The eSATA to SATA connection should really be an unaltered passthrough that does not require the controller board to do anything. The controller boards enable the SATA to USB conversion and some must somehow modify the SATA signaling. I have hooked a bare drive to a PC power supply and connected it via an SATA to eSATA cable to my HR20-100 and it worked fine. No enclosure or controller board required.

 

[jmathey]

A Vista PC will change the drive so it should be reformatted when hooked back up to an HRXX. If you are using XP, you might try deleting the Windows partition before taking it back to the HRXX.

I don't know how to force an HRXX format. It happens automatically if your HRXX doesn't like the layout of the drive. Vista will do that as soon as it reads the drive.

The replacement case may have had one of the troublesome controller boards making the drive invisible to your HRXX.

As for why it won't work in the original enclosure could be lots of things. Are all the cables firmly connected? Did you put everything back together correctly? Does it have power? Did you start the eSATA first, then the HRXX. Have you tried a Menu Reset? A Red Button Reset? Unplugged both the HRXX and the eSATA , then plugged in the eSATA, followed by the HRXX?

You might want to buy an Antec MX-1 as they seem to work well with all the drives. The eSATA to SATA connection should really be an unaltered passthrough that does not require the controller board to do anything. The controller boards enable the SATA to USB conversion and some must somehow modify the SATA signaling. I have hooked a bare drive to a PC power supply and connected it via an SATA to eSATA cable to my HR20-100 and it worked fine. No enclosure or controller board required.

Thanks, I got it to work. There is something quirky about changing enclosures I think. I even used the eSATA cable from the original enclosure. But, after following formatting instructions on a post here, everything appears to work now:

To reformat the drive, reboot the DVR, when you get to the "Almost There.. " screen, hold the record button and the down arrow, this will take you a Welcome to Direct TV screen, after about a minute or so, it will resume booting, and in my case, it started using the eSATA drive.