here's the story............
got hold of a sata 2.5in laptop drive wd1600bevs, windows sees it, used it 
to store media files.
Thought I would try to install in either my sky+ thomson 160gb or my luxor 
250 gb pvr
Bought a sata to ide adapter which i used on my pc to see the drive, all ok.
Used copy + to place all of my recorded programs onto 2.5 disk, no problem, 
all copied ook
placed the adapter on the disk and connected to sky+ but nothing showed on 
tv, placed a jumper on
2.5 disk for slow power up and the sky box booted ok and could watch sky 
progs but not record or see copied programmes on the epg.
formatted disk as fat32 and connected to luxor 250 gb pvr both disks sata 
the original is 3.5 250gb
tried all sorts of ways to read disk but even though I could use luxor box 
there was no hard disk shown in setup.
anybody any clues why not, the 2.5 sata connected ok to the luxor(straght 
cable swap.)

Different PVRs use different disk formats to store programmes.  For
example, my Pace Twin uses STAVS (IIR the acronym C) ...
	http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/TwinRIP/
... my Panasonic HD/DVD recorder uses its own proprietary format which
is similar to the DVD-RAM format ...

http://www.macfh.co.uk/JavaJive/AudioVisualTV/PanasonicDMRE100H/PanasonicDMRE100HHardDisks.html
... Dreamboxes and some others use Linux as the Operating System and
therefore Linux disk formats ...
	http://www.dream-multimedia-tv.de/en/dm-8000-hd-pvr

Not sure what $ky and Luxor use, but it's quite possibly not a Windows
format, and if you haven't already you should check this point out
before you do anything else.

On Mon, 5 Oct 2009 19:06:11 +0100, "critcher"
 wrote:

> here's the story............
> got hold of a sata 2.5in laptop drive wd1600bevs, windows sees it, used it 
> to store media files.
> Thought I would try to install in either my sky+ thomson 160gb or my luxor 
> 250 gb pvr
> Bought a sata to ide adapter which i used on my pc to see the drive, all ok.
> Used copy + to place all of my recorded programs onto 2.5 disk, no problem, 
> all copied ook
> placed the adapter on the disk and connected to sky+ but nothing showed on 
> tv, placed a jumper on
> 2.5 disk for slow power up and the sky box booted ok and could watch sky 
> progs but not record or see copied programmes on the epg.
> formatted disk as fat32 and connected to luxor 250 gb pvr both disks sata 
> the original is 3.5 250gb
> tried all sorts of ways to read disk but even though I could use luxor box 
> there was no hard disk shown in setup.
> anybody any clues why not, the 2.5 sata connected ok to the luxor(straght 
> cable swap.)
> 
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No TAPS, never has had a TAP on it.
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I've recently (a month or so ago) had a strange thing start happening 
to my TF5810.  To almost all recordings it adds a bookmark at 99% 
through the recording.  Has anyone else seen this ?  TurboSat says it 
hasn't heard of it before.

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