From: invalid@example.org   
      
   Paul  wrote in news:l4f7ah$ek1$1@dont-email.me:   
      
   > Tegger wrote:   
      
   >>   
   >> Any suggestions from the group /other/ than ordering drive after   
   >> drive after drive?   
   >>   
   >   
   > The unit is not hot-plug compatible.   
      
      
      
   It's hot-plug compatible on my PC on both interfaces I can use.   
      
      
   >   
   > Plug in HD630. Plug in external ESATA drive.   
   > Turn on the external ESATA drive (if it has a switch).   
   > It should spin up. Now turn on the PVR and   
   > attempt to detect and format the drive.   
   > That allows the PVR to detect the hard   
   > drive, while the PVR is booting.   
      
      
      
   Didn't work.   
      
      
   >   
   > A new drive may be formatted NTFS from the factory.   
   > Perhaps the HD630 has some preference as to what   
   > is on there, before it reformats/overwrites it.   
      
      
      
   There wasn't any partition/format originally. I tried adding one, which   
   didn't help. Then I deleted it and tried your suggestion, above. Still no   
   dice.   
      
      
   >   
   > Based on the few posts I read on digitalhome, I'd   
   > be checking into the firmware version.   
      
      
      
   It's currently 09.22. And there is apparently no way of forcing an update.   
      
   I'm going to sign up at the Shaw site and post to the forum there.   
      
   Thanks.   
      
      
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