How to fix a unmounted or unknown hard drive for all Vu+ series

[karjala]

How to fix a unmounted or unknown hard drive for all Vu+ series


'' Guide showing how to fix a unmounted/unknown hard drive in the Vu+ series of satellite box’s via telnet/serial. The problem seems to stem from a the partition table which the Vu+ has trouble with. This fixes the tables and mount points

Vu+ duo satellite receiver

Hard drive not detected in device manager for the Vu+ (Telnet)

I installed a 500gb hard disk and this gave me a problem. It didn’t show up in the devices list and so I couldn’t mount it.

I typed :

fdisk -l

This listed the hard disk and reported it had no partition table. Hence the reason the VU+ doesn’t see the drive.
Next I made a partition and formatted it.

I typed :

fdisk /dev/sda

then I typed :

w

(write new partition table and exit)

Lastly I typed :

mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda

Once this was completed I restarted the box and now it showed in the devices list. I selected “/media/hdd” as it’s mount point.