I don't use my hd box for recording only as a freesat box with a ftv card
from sky. I Is there any way to cut out the hard disk either manually or
set up.
thanks

On Thu, 26 May 2011 16:18:39 +0100, "Dutchman"
wrote:

I don't use my hd box for recording only as a freesat box with a ftv card
from sky. I Is there any way to cut out the hard disk either manually or
set up.
thanks


Is it the noise that bothers you?

You can't do it in software, so the only way to know is to open the
box up and pull the power lead out of the back of the hard drive. It's
just a standard hard drive like in your PC.

I'm not sure how the box will respond, but the only to know is to try
it.

--
Vincent

In article ,
"Dutchman" wrote:

I don't use my hd box for recording only as a freesat box with a ftv card
from sky. I Is there any way to cut out the hard disk either manually or
set up.
thanks

To be fair I've never tried but put it this way - I would be _extremely_
surprised if the box continued to work at all after you'd removed the
hard disk.

Thanks for your replies. will try to take off the hdd leads and will let the
group know. The set which I use in the bedroom keeps firing up (HDD) thru
the night even though the set is in stand-by
Thanks D...........
"Mike Henry" wrote in message
...
In , Roger Wilmut
wrote:

In article ,
"Dutchman" wrote:

I don't use my hd box for recording only as a freesat box with a ftv
card
from sky. I Is there any way to cut out the hard disk either manually
or
set up.
thanks

To be fair I've never tried but put it this way - I would be _extremely_
surprised if the box continued to work at all after you'd removed the
hard disk.

I have a vague memory - possible from a posting by Jomtien - that Sky+
boxes used to boot fine with no HD (hard disc) but then the firmware was
changed so it wouldn't boot without one. He used to use old tiny HDs for
the purpose. I expect the same is now the case with High Definition
Digiboxes; they'll need a hard disc to boot but it doesn't have to be big.

Dutchman wrote:
I don't use my hd box for recording only as a freesat box with a ftv
card from sky. I Is there any way to cut out the hard disk either
manually or set up.
thanks

The hard drive doesn't hold any information that the box needs in order to
operate as far as I know, or at least it seems that way. I bought a brand
new 2TB Western Digital drive, put it in my PC and used Copy+ to set it up
before putting it in my Amstrad DRX890 Sky+ HD box. The drive obviously
could not have had anything on there that was needed by the box to boot, but
it did indeed boot and started to work as expected straight away.

Now, whether Sky have somehow managed to make the box check for the presence
of a drive and only continue to work if there is a drive present, I don't
know.

On Sat, 28 May 2011 14:28:57 +0100, "John" wrote:

The hard drive doesn't hold any information that the box needs in order to
operate as far as I know, or at least it seems that way. I bought a brand
new 2TB Western Digital drive, put it in my PC and used Copy+ to set it up
before putting it in my Amstrad DRX890 Sky+ HD box. The drive obviously
could not have had anything on there that was needed by the box to boot, but
it did indeed boot and started to work as expected straight away.

Now, whether Sky have somehow managed to make the box check for the presence
of a drive and only continue to work if there is a drive present, I don't
know.


Well, the first thing that comes to mind is that they now cache series
link information and program information on the hard drive. If you
remember back to the days of the old planner, pressing series link
often took 20 seconds before the series link appeared, as did pressing
Info on a programmer for more information.

Whether or not this information is required for startup is another
matter.

--
Vincent

Roger Wilmut wrote:
: To be fair I've never tried but put it this way - I would be _extremely_
: surprised if the box continued to work at all after you'd removed the
: hard disk.

Not personally tried it BUT I have read posts which say that it DOES!!!!

On May 28, 2:28*pm, "Dutchman" wrote:
Thanks for your replies. will try to take off the hdd leads and will let the
group know. *The set which I use in the bedroom keeps firing up (HDD) thru
the night even though the set is in stand-by

Do you have recordings set at these times? If not maybe it's Sky
Anytime, which can be switched off from the menu somewhere.

On Sun, 29 May 2011 12:52:59 -0700 (PDT), airsmoothed
wrote:

On May 28, 2:28*pm, "Dutchman" wrote:
Thanks for your replies. will try to take off the hdd leads and will let the
group know. *The set which I use in the bedroom keeps firing up (HDD) thru
the night even though the set is in stand-by

Do you have recordings set at these times? If not maybe it's Sky
Anytime, which can be switched off from the menu somewhere.

It is indeed Anytime. If you have no recordings, have Anytime off, and
put the box in Standby, after a few minutes the hard drive powers down
and doesn't spin up again until you switch the box back on.

--
Vincent

In article , Vincent
writes
On Sat, 28 May 2011 14:28:57 +0100, "John" wrote:

The hard drive doesn't hold any information that the box needs in order to
operate as far as I know, or at least it seems that way. I bought a brand
new 2TB Western Digital drive, put it in my PC and used Copy+ to set it up
before putting it in my Amstrad DRX890 Sky+ HD box. The drive obviously
could not have had anything on there that was needed by the box to boot, but
it did indeed boot and started to work as expected straight away.

Now, whether Sky have somehow managed to make the box check for the presence
of a drive and only continue to work if there is a drive present, I don't
know.


Well, the first thing that comes to mind is that they now cache series
link information and program information on the hard drive. If you
remember back to the days of the old planner, pressing series link
often took 20 seconds before the series link appeared, as did pressing
Info on a programmer for more information.

Whether or not this information is required for startup is another
matter.

The box stores seven days worth of TV guide information, not just the
series link, so that has to be updated every six hours. I don't know
what would happen if the disk was not there to receive it.

Also I suspect that Sky keep checking to see if you have watched a box
office film (this may not be applicable to Freeview from Sky).
--
Peter Pratten
Please reply in group only