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Bodi79

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Adding Harddrives
« on: August 02, 2009, 05:11:31 pm »

I searched around the forum and wiki.. maybe i´m too stupid... Pleaze help !

My Core has a 500gig SATA Samsung Drive which is now almost filled up with data.

So i added a new 1tb Drive, which i formatted in ext3 and was later recognized from lmce. (Using LMCE´s directory structure)

But.. i can´t access it when i open the 192.168.80.1 smb share, it only shows my a left space of 23 gigs (from my Main Drive)

When i try too add data too the drive via the KDE Desktop, i can´t copy anything on it (write protected).

What am I doing wrong.



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Re: Adding Harddrives
« Reply #1 on: August 02, 2009, 06:26:20 pm »
Hi,

If you go into webadmin and in the left window at the bottom of the column open device tree.

Open your Core and see if it's there.

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Re: Adding Harddrives
« Reply #2 on: August 02, 2009, 06:34:09 pm »
Hey pigdog !

Yep the Drive is there..

And i now ran in a new problem, if i go under media on my md´s it always shows my "floorplan" but not the media on the drive...
Don´t know what went wrong there..

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Re: Adding Harddrives
« Reply #3 on: August 02, 2009, 06:48:09 pm »
Hi,

Do you mean to say that on your MD when you go main menu Media> only Floorplan submenu appears and not

Floorplan, Manage Drives, Playlists, Pictures, Audio, Video, TV submenus?

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Re: Adding Harddrives
« Reply #4 on: August 02, 2009, 06:49:05 pm »


Hey pigdog !

Exactly.. i only got floorplan shown on the MD´s...

But on the Core alls Media is there..

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Re: Adding Harddrives
« Reply #5 on: August 02, 2009, 06:54:38 pm »
Hi,

Please see this thread.

http://forum.linuxmce.org/index.php?topic=8607.0

Since bitmonkey is now wrestling with hdmi audio problems I would guess that a core rebuild fixed his original problem and he didn't mark the issue resolved.

You could always try to PM him to find out.

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Re: Adding Harddrives
« Reply #6 on: August 16, 2009, 12:23:45 am »
Hey Pigdog !

Installed my Core again, everything works now..

But my adding Harddrive Problem remains.

If if add a ext3 formatted harddrive it will be detected and i can set it up with lmce directory structure.

But it does not show up on the home directory nore on the smb share... only the main disk is visible?

And yes .. the drive is shown under core in lmce admin

Pleaze help

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Re: Adding Harddrives
« Reply #7 on: August 16, 2009, 12:40:30 am »
Hi,

1) Have you upgraded to the latest alpha 2.29?

2) The new hard drive, did you install it on your Core/Hybrid?

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Re: Adding Harddrives
« Reply #8 on: August 16, 2009, 12:45:52 am »

Hey again !

Yep installed with latest 2.29

And on the core/hybrid

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Re: Adding Harddrives
« Reply #9 on: August 16, 2009, 12:50:08 am »
Hi,

Go into webadmin at bottom of left hand screen open " Show devices tree".

Open Core find your storage disk and check PK_Users.

Does it says Public or LinuxMCE directory tree.

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Re: Adding Harddrives
« Reply #10 on: August 16, 2009, 12:50:53 am »


It says LMCE´s Directory Structure..

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Re: Adding Harddrives
« Reply #11 on: August 16, 2009, 12:56:29 am »
Hi,

In that template there are some check boxes.

Is online checked?

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Re: Adding Harddrives
« Reply #12 on: August 16, 2009, 12:58:47 am »


Yep.. it´s online ;-)

Description *     
Device Template    Internal HDD #1790    
Device Template Comments    
This device is controlled via    
Room    
Entertain areas    Bedroom (Master)
Home Theater
Server room
Manually Configure EA    
IP Address    
MAC Address    
Ignore On/Off    On   Off:
Reconfigure device
Use 5 second pings to ensure connection stays alive.
State    
Status    
Disabled
Registered: No

Device Pipes Used
   
Member Of Group
No groups for device
   
Create new device group
Related Devices
No related devices
   

Device data
PK_Users       
Use Automatically       
Block Device       
Directories       
Filesystem       
Free Disk Space in MBytes       
Serial Number    df0d2df6-c72f-4721-88c7-9e4c5aa29d58    
Auto-assign to parents room       
Readonly       
Online       (YES IT`S ONLINE)   
UUID    df0d2df6-c72f-4721-88c7-9e4c5aa29d58    
Capacity    466G    

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Re: Adding Harddrives
« Reply #13 on: August 16, 2009, 01:16:18 am »
Hi,

I would just like to clarify...

All you should have to do with the new hard drive is format it with ext3, then install it in your core and wait for LinuxMCE to detect it.

LMCE will prompt you about it and you select use the LinuxMCE folder structure.

Did you install alpha 2.29 from scratch or upgrade from an earlier release?

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Re: Adding Harddrives
« Reply #14 on: August 16, 2009, 01:48:07 am »
Hello again !

The Install was made with Alpha 2.27

And it works as you wrote... ext3 format... recognized by lmce.. and so on..

But i can´t access the drive via smb share or kde desktop

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