Disk Bargraph

Could some knowlegeable person kindly tell me how to see the
"Bargraph" assocoated with the Sky+ Disk?
I have fitted a new 120GB maxstor drive, but the normal display shows
36% available, which is surely not correct.
A Google search showed nothing of help. Thanks.

In article ,
le says...
Could some knowlegeable person kindly tell me how to see the
"Bargraph" assocoated with the Sky+ Disk?
I have fitted a new 120GB maxstor drive, but the normal display shows
36% available, which is surely not correct.
A Google search showed nothing of help. Thanks.

I think I read somewhere that this problem sorts its self out after a
while?

Anyone know? I was going to install a 120Gb drive soon myself.

Dene

In article ,
le says...
Could some knowlegeable person kindly tell me how to see the
"Bargraph" assocoated with the Sky+ Disk?
I have fitted a new 120GB maxstor drive, but the normal display shows
36% available, which is surely not correct.
A Google search showed nothing of help. Thanks.

I think I read somewhere that this problem sorts its self out after a
while?

Anyone know? I was going to install a 120Gb drive soon myself.

Dene

"Dene Wilby" wrote in message
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In article ,
le says...
Could some knowlegeable person kindly tell me how to see the
"Bargraph" assocoated with the Sky+ Disk?
I have fitted a new 120GB maxstor drive, but the normal display shows
36% available, which is surely not correct.
A Google search showed nothing of help. Thanks.

I think I read somewhere that this problem sorts its self out after a
while?

Anyone know? I was going to install a 120Gb drive soon myself.

Only from what I've read here,The Sky+ box does'nt alter the readings
whatsoever (though a possible software update may be due so the box can
*see* what size of HD is fitted)

"Dene Wilby" wrote in message
...
In article ,
le says...
Could some knowlegeable person kindly tell me how to see the
"Bargraph" assocoated with the Sky+ Disk?
I have fitted a new 120GB maxstor drive, but the normal display shows
36% available, which is surely not correct.
A Google search showed nothing of help. Thanks.

I think I read somewhere that this problem sorts its self out after a
while?

Anyone know? I was going to install a 120Gb drive soon myself.

Only from what I've read here,The Sky+ box does'nt alter the readings
whatsoever (though a possible software update may be due so the box can
*see* what size of HD is fitted)

"K" wrote in message ...
On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 07:24:51 GMT, Jomtien wrote:


I have fitted a new 120GB maxstor drive, but the normal display shows
36% available, which is surely not correct.

You have discovered the problem with Sky+ hard drive upgrades. The
extra space is there and the Sky+ uses it but it doesn't report it at
all. You can do nothing about it.

The graph of disk space is correct - the figure is incorrect - it is
the percentage of the first 40GB of the disk.
SNIP

It'll be interesting to see if some future software update ever fixes this
problem because if Sky do release a fix then that will probably be a good
advance warning that higher capacity boxes are on their way. I can't see
that they'll bother to do a fix until they need it themselves to correctly
handle space reporting for higher capacity drives.

- Julian.

"K" wrote in message ...
On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 07:24:51 GMT, Jomtien wrote:


I have fitted a new 120GB maxstor drive, but the normal display shows
36% available, which is surely not correct.

You have discovered the problem with Sky+ hard drive upgrades. The
extra space is there and the Sky+ uses it but it doesn't report it at
all. You can do nothing about it.

The graph of disk space is correct - the figure is incorrect - it is
the percentage of the first 40GB of the disk.
SNIP

It'll be interesting to see if some future software update ever fixes this
problem because if Sky do release a fix then that will probably be a good
advance warning that higher capacity boxes are on their way. I can't see
that they'll bother to do a fix until they need it themselves to correctly
handle space reporting for higher capacity drives.

- Julian.

K wrote:

The graph of disk space is correct

That's better than nothing I suppose.

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K wrote:

The graph of disk space is correct

That's better than nothing I suppose.

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BillR wrote:

You have discovered the problem with Sky+ hard drive upgrades. The
extra space is there and the Sky+ uses it but it doesn't report it at
all. You can do nothing about it.

What a crappy OS! sounds like an ancient form of Windoze

In their defence the Sky+ only comes with a 40Gb drive so they don't
need to support any other size. I'm sure that if the Sky+ is ever sold
with a larger drive then the OS will be modified to take account of
this and will then report what is there rather than what it thinks
should be there.

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Digibox problem? : A reboot solves 90% of these.
The Sky Digital FAQ: http://tinyurl.com/guiv
How to get UK TV overseas: http://tinyurl.com/6p73
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BBC gone? : http://www.astra2d.co.uk/
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