Hi, I've tried to mount an external eSATA drive (which was plugged and formatted by my DVR: Scientific Atlanta Explorer 8300HD) on my Mac running Leopard 10.5.6. Each (eSATA) drive has 3 partitions: ITFS (no interest), AVFS (this is of interest because this is were the TV recordings are) and Reserved (no interest). The purpose was to extract the none-encrypted program recordings (files) and eventually copy them on my Mac for further conversion purhaps. I don't like the fact that for each of the existing recordings I have to go through the fw interface and re-record it "again" via my Mac. This is long, tedious and frustrating. I thought that by plugging an external eSATA drive to the DVR and recording on it and then connecting that external hd on my Mac using Fuse I could potentially read its content. Unfortunately, I still can't.
I can see information about the status of the external hard drive (FAST storage policy - Striping) via a program called SteelVine Manager ( http://www.siliconimage.com/docs/57xxSteelVineManager_V5.1.24.leopard.pkg.zip ) but I cannot mount it on my Mac even after using Fuse. Apparently a Silicone Image chip is used by my DVR which takes care of formatting the drive. See also: http://www.welland.com.tw/html/2bay/SiI57XX_Users_Guide_Rev_1.0.pdf for more information about SteelVine Manager http://www.siliconimage.com/docs/WhitePaper_capacity_expansion_Final_2007_01_04.pdf in relation to SA Explorer 8300HD I only wish to be able to transfer files from that DVR formatted external hd (from the AVFS partition more specifically) to another one on my Mac. Disk Utility sees the drive but do not show any partition. I thought Fuse could help. So far no luck. Are there any other ways I could achieve my goal? This would help thousand of people using that DVR brand to be able to extract its content in a much faster and appropriate fashion. Can anyone help? Thanks in advance. Pierre --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacFUSE" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macfuse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
