Posted by Citizen Bob on 10/24/06 17:19

On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 08:29:55 -0500, "Peter H. Coffin"
<hellsop@ninehells.com> wrote:

>> Most new HDD's come with their own software and install automatically.

>*blink* Unless your DVR is treating the drive as a raw device, you'll
>still need the DVR's preferred filesystem on it. I'll bet you a donut
>that it's not using FAT32 or whatever the drive may have come
>preformmatted to.

If you read the web forums like CDFreaks you will find some people who
have successfully substituted their own HDD. The claim that the format
is FAT32. But someone else pointed out that FAT32 has a 4GB limit on
file size. So you can't use a monster VOB where you have merged all
the 1GB into one huge 4.5GB file.




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will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education
will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and
determination alone are omnipotent."
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