Hi Guys,
I've seen a few posts about this now, but no one has seemed to answer it:
What is the best most reliable way to connect hard disk to the NVR? USB or E-SATA?
I ask this because I have a new Seagate 2tb USB 2.0/3.0 external hard disk that I have connected to my 8CH NVR. The NVR recognises the 2TB drive has been connected but says "Status Abnormal" - It does say the free space and capacity (1907729/1897489).
If I do an fdisk on the 2TB 8CH NVR I get the following:
# fdisk -l
Note: sector size is 4096 (not 512)
Warning: invalid flag 0x00,0x00 of partition table 5 will be corrected by w(rite)
Disk /dev/sda: 2000.3 GB, 2000398929920 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30400 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 4096 = 65802240 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 1306 83923308 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 1307 243201 2659270812 5 Extended
I have another 4CH NVR with a WORKING USB 1TB Seagate drive which gives me the following:
# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 1306 10490413+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 1307 121601 966269587+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 1308 121601 966261523+ b Win95 FAT32
If you compare the output, you will notice that the 8CH/2TB configuration has /dev/sda5 missing - which I think is the difference between the USB drives working and not. It would be good if I could get the manual commands to format this drive and manually mount the drive into the NVR software. I'm not sure on the exact linux commands to do this.
