"Watch TV" blanks and comes back to the menu, apparently because it can't find the new sata drive location. (From Mythtv-setup/General, I replaced /myth/video with /mnt/sda1/recordings). When I switch back to /myth/video, Myth is happy again.

I thought I installed the sata drive right, but I'm a noob, thus the reason for this post (what did I do wrong?)

The Knoppmyth (R5d1) install seemed to recognize my Sata drive, and I did a

mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda1

and made a directory called recordings and gave it full access

chmod 777 recordings

I'm a noob too so...

You are specifying the actual device /dev/sda1

What you need to do is mount that device to a directory, then tell Myth to use that directory.

Look at the manuals for mount and fstab. (man mount and man fstab).

Looks like he was actually using a mount point, even if it had the device name encoded in it. I'd suspect that the real problem was something more basic like setting the ownership and/or permissions on those directorties correctly after creating the filesystem.

Hi,
First, check the pamphlet, http://mysettopbox.tv/pamphlet.html
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Here he sets up large blocks for storage. In your case, use /dev/sda1

Once you have it formatted, mount it some place, look under /mnt/ or /media . Once you have it mounted then
# cp -a /myth/* /<where you mount it>
as this will copy all the directoies and files needed with your current working system keeping ownership and permissins also.

Once the copy is complete,
# umount /<where you mount it>
and mount it to /myth. Before you can do that, edit /etc/fstab and change the /dev/<partition> /myth to be /dev/sda1 /myth
# mount /myth
and you should be as you just were except with the added space of the new directory replacing the original /myth partition.

Mike

You know we're all thrashing around here and not asking for diagnostics... I really should know better...

pairajacks - we need the details. We'll want your exact mount command and /etc/fstab entries. Also the output from running "mount" with no arguments and an "ls -al" of the mounted drive. If you're not set up to cut & paste from a remote session on the KM box, redirect the output to a file and sneaker-net it across.

2nd attempt (before reading some of the latest replies):

mkdir /myth/video_160gHD
chmod 777 video_160gHD

Edited fstab....
LABEL=/myth/video_160gHD /myth/video_160gHD ext3 defaults 1 2

mount /dev/sda1 /myth/video_160gHD

Output from terminal:
root@mythtv:/myth/video_160gHD# ls -alt
total 28
drwxrwxrwx 3 root root 4096 Jan 15 11:02 .
drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4096 Jan 15 10:54 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 57 Jan 15 10:52 TryKenFile
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 16384 Jan 15 10:24 lost+found

root@mythtv:/etc# df -H
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1 5.0G 3.0G 1.8G 63% /
/dev/hda3 26G 212M 25G 1% /myth
/dev/sda1 142G 34M 135G 1% /myth/video_160gHD
root@mythtv:/etc#

"WatchTV" just goes blank, then comes back to menu (still doesn't like my new HD)
Is it because of the owner "root root" in the ls -alt command?