On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 11:05:49AM +0000, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
On Sat, 2006-02-25 at 18:48 +0000, Jan T. Kim wrote:
Ideally, I would like to simply mount the recorder's HD and copy the recording in question to some more permanent storage -- but does the PVR-9200T implement the USB mass storage class?
I am guessing that the fact Windows boxes need that elinker.exe indicates that access to the HDD content through USB isn't as simple as USB Mass Storage.
For a start I am not sure how the device would handle having the drive mounted in two places (the internal firmware and the external USB mount)
umount the drive from the internal firmware, perhaps? That's what I think my digital camera does in effect -- upon connecting to USB, it shuts the lens and does not respond to any button presses, only the occasional blinking of the LED indicates it's switched on.
Not a particularly clever solution, I admit, but from a product designer's perspective, not entirely stupid: At least, it foolproofly avoids any complaints resulting from cases in which someone deleted a recorded movie using the PVR's remote while someone else is trying to copy it (and the transfer isn't finished yet).
Therefore I am thinking that they have implemented some sort of file transfer protocol over USB. The forums seem to suggest that the device outputs raw transmission formats with the PC link, so elinker doesn't do any file conversion.
Yes -- the user manual I've found at
http://www.hummy.org.uk/stuff/MediaeLinker0414.pdf
looks to me like just that. It could still be that the program just works on top of a USB mass storage, and the somewhat odd instruction to turn off the PVR before plugging in the USB cable may indicate that the device boots into different modes depending on whether it detects a USB connection at boot time.
Short of plugging one in and watching the messages log I can't think what else to suggest. Perhaps taking a Linux loaded laptop down to a friendly stockist ?
That's a good idea. The PVR09200T is available from Hughes direct, so Hughes might be a place to try.
Thanks & best regards, Jan