bernardryan 0 Posted March 22, 2009 Hi there everyone, I have been using divis dvr CAP160A12 or something like that for about a year now. Recently, my house was broken into and they messed up my whole house and stole a few things. They also took my server which housed the Divis DVR card and therefore i couldnt view the videos as all the surveillance was done using the server. If what they were looking for was computers to steal, they would have taken my own personal computer which is worth twice more than the surveillance computer. So i got a new computer with a new divis card and bought an external Maxtor 1TB basic using USB2.0 480mbps. Now my question is, i can't seem to use the external HDD as a recording drive. It doesn't accept it. It only accepts the drives that are connected straight to the Motherboard. Is there any solution to this matter? I would like to have an external HDD hidden somewhere else, so that if i were to get robbed again, they would just take the computer and leave the hdd not knowing that the HDD is the one which is important. Can anyone help me out here? Regards, *just got robbed* ryan Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
griffonsystems 0 Posted March 23, 2009 try backing up to the usb drive not recording direct to it Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bernardryan 0 Posted March 23, 2009 Thanx Griffonsystems, If i were to backup, won't it be like a scheduled backup. Lets say i set it to backup at 12 midnight every night and the theives decide to come in at about 4 in the afternoon, won't it be pointless like that? Backing up would only be good if it backsup every minute. Backing up also serves as a protection for the lost of info on your drive. Other than that, its pretty useless. I am looking for a solution that will allow me to record straight out of my CPU into an external storage, be it using eSATA, USB 2.0 or even LAN/wifi if its possible. Anyone having the same issue here? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ak357 0 Posted March 23, 2009 (edited) Hi there everyone, I have been using divis dvr CAP160A12 or something like that for about a year now. Recently, my house was broken into and they messed up my whole house and stole a few things. They also took my server which housed the Divis DVR card and therefore i couldnt view the videos as all the surveillance was done using the server. If what they were looking for was computers to steal, they would have taken my own personal computer which is worth twice more than the surveillance computer. So i got a new computer with a new divis card and bought an external Maxtor 1TB basic using USB2.0 480mbps. Now my question is, i can't seem to use the external HDD as a recording drive. It doesn't accept it. It only accepts the drives that are connected straight to the Motherboard. Is there any solution to this matter? I would like to have an external HDD hidden somewhere else, so that if i were to get robbed again, they would just take the computer and leave the hdd not knowing that the HDD is the one which is important. Can anyone help me out here? Regards, *just got robbed* ryan U right your Divis Card do not allow recording on network or Usb drives was just playing with one of them ( have customer unit for repair ) Edited March 23, 2009 by Guest Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
griffonsystems 0 Posted March 23, 2009 i just dont think it will record direct to usb because of the speed, but wouldnt someone just take the pc and everything connected to it if they robbed you..not an easy solution Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ak357 0 Posted March 23, 2009 Hi there everyone, I have been using divis dvr CAP160A12 or something like that for about a year now. Recently, my house was broken into and they messed up my whole house and stole a few things. They also took my server which housed the Divis DVR card and therefore i couldnt view the videos as all the surveillance was done using the server. If what they were looking for was computers to steal, they would have taken my own personal computer which is worth twice more than the surveillance computer. So i got a new computer with a new divis card and bought an external Maxtor 1TB basic using USB2.0 480mbps. Now my question is, i can't seem to use the external HDD as a recording drive. It doesn't accept it. It only accepts the drives that are connected straight to the Motherboard. Is there any solution to this matter? I would like to have an external HDD hidden somewhere else, so that if i were to get robbed again, they would just take the computer and leave the hdd not knowing that the HDD is the one which is important. Can anyone help me out here? Regards, *just got robbed* ryan may be try eSATA Drive if u can see this drive with soft then u can get cable up to about 2 meters away from comp to hide it if that will work for u Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
destro_23 0 Posted March 25, 2009 Weird i just installed a 16 channel Divis and have 2 external drives working on it... must be usb 2.0 otherwise it runs very slow.. Just make sure you use the divis dbtool.exe in the install folder first(it's a small app that initilizes the actual DVR program to see the drives.)... THEN add using the system tools inside the program... I have 2 500 gig external drives going on this box... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
