OT: Rogers PVR: A Question...?

James Knott james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org
Sat Jan 31 13:03:23 UTC 2009


Robert Brockway wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Jan 2009, James Knott wrote:
>
>> My Rogers supplied Scientific Atlanta PVR has a SATA port, for attaching
>> external drives.
>
> Yes but if it doesn't autodetect and provision the drive, or have a
> way to manually set it up then the drive will just sit there[1].
>
> [1] Or worse.  If you boot the PVR with it attached the drives might
> get detected in the wrong order and things might really go south.
>
> Rob
>
Have you verified that?  According to the PVR manual, it records on
whichever drive has the most free space and a recording is not split
across both drives.


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