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erikjohn · Joined: 08 Mar 2006 Posts: 636 Location: Florida

Tom - I am curious why you bought a Dune when you had the Oppo for ISO.

Tom.W · Joined: 09 Mar 2006 Posts: 6635

From what I understand the Oppo 93 lost ISO support in a firmware update (I never personally loaded) but regardless the Dune is a nice piece of work !

When you need to organize and provide easy access and storage space for 800+ movies and growing it seems like a good choice... Thumbs Up

Tom.W · Joined: 09 Mar 2006 Posts: 6635

A new problem rears it's ugly head Crying or Very sad

So I fully load up two WD 2TB drives and I plug them into the Dune HDDuo via USB and all looks fine. I can see the files and watch them fine.

So I pull the two drives out of there external enclosures to remove parking but when I put the drives inside the Dune the Dune reports "File system not recognized" and wants to reformat the drive ? Any ideas as the drives are formatted for MBR and NTFS. Does the dune only use GPT partitioning with internal drives and if so why would you use GPT for a 2TB drive ? Confused

Tom.W · Joined: 09 Mar 2006 Posts: 6635

It could be due to this ?

http://hothardware.com/Articles/WDs-1TB-Caviar-Green-w-Advanced-Format-Windows-XP-Users-Pay-Attention/

Not too sure what to do with this....

http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?groupid=805 Confused

Tom.W · Joined: 09 Mar 2006 Posts: 6635

Talked with Mike at Dune USA support Friday. Because the WD drives use advance formatting and I created the drives using XP ,using the external enclosures USB port, the drives need to be reformatted using an eSATA port and windows 7 for the Dune internal drives to work...

Since I only have laptops It looks like now I'm going to build an NAS server with windows 7 as I already have several 3 and 2 WD Green drives.

Craig would you still recommend this enclosure ?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811815017

**AnalogRocks** · Posted: Sun Mar 10, 2013 11:48 pm Post subject:

Wow what a PITA!

Tom.W · Joined: 09 Mar 2006 Posts: 6635

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CIR Engineering · Posted: Mon Mar 11, 2013 3:15 pm Post subject:

WanMan · Joined: 19 Mar 2006 Posts: 10270

This is strange. The WDC software included with most Western Digital USB-based drives have a formatting tool to make them XP compatible and to allow one huge 3TB partition that can be made for NTFS.

I discovered the problem a while back and thankfully I managed to overcome the issue. But, I had to remove the content before reformatting.

Tom.W · Joined: 09 Mar 2006 Posts: 6635

True but the Dune does not recognize the format. WD appears to be using a few tricks (non standard) to make the drive back compatible with XP.

Tom.W · Joined: 09 Mar 2006 Posts: 6635

Well I spoke with Craig yesterday (thanks Craig !)and he recommended I connect to the network via Ethernet and format the drive in the Dune. Then transfer the files using teracopy. The good news is I was able view the Dune internal hard drive on my PC but the bad news is the transfer rate is only 1-1.5 MB per second and the drive that I'm copying is 3 TB.

Unless I'm doing something wrong at that transfer rate according to teracopy it will take 28 days... Shocked

Once I see the Dune on my computer can I use USB ?

CIR Engineering · Posted: Wed Mar 13, 2013 5:37 pm Post subject:

LOL.

That doesn't seem correct. If you try and play a BD movie across the network (from PC > Dune), does it play without problems?

craigr

Tom.W · Joined: 09 Mar 2006 Posts: 6635

Well at this point it will take another hour for the first SD movie to copy to the Dune, to see if its working, so its kind of tied up at the moment. My transfer rate over USB was 29 MBs.

Craig do I have this right that my PC needs to be connected to the router via ethernet and also ethernet to the dune to copy the files to the dune or once my laptop sees the Dune HDD can I connect my PC directly to the Dune using USB and then transfer the files ?

Or can I just connect the PC directly to the dune via ethernet ? When I try that my PC sees the Dune HDD but when I try to transfer the files I get a teracopy error saying the target folder is not available.

I did transfer one file and I was able to see it on the Dune and it plays fine but at the 1.5 mb transfer rate....

CIR Engineering · Posted: Wed Mar 13, 2013 11:51 pm Post subject:

USB is not an option.

You can connect the DUNE directly to the PC. I think you use a standard Ethernet cable, but you might need a "crossover" cable. Neither your PC nor the DUNE is an HDCP server so you will need to manually configure the network. On the DUNE set your IP address to 192.168.1.100 and on the PC set your IP address to 192.168.1.101. For both the DUNE and PC set the subnet mask to 255.255.255.0. No other parameters need to be specified except that the workgroup name is the same on both. Connect the two and give them a couple minutes to detect eachother.

craigr