"Wrong File" issue resolved.....sort of

[lowridin_guy]

So I called Conaxsat tech support last night and explained my "wrong file" error message to them. They told me that there is in fact a bug in their factory firmware and it is in the process of being fixed. No ETA unfortunately.

They told me the issue occurs when movies are recorded over 2 GB. Even if the file being played back is less than 2 gigs it will not work when a file over 2 gigs is present on the drive. I backed up all my movies on my computer then just copied the movies and shows under 2 gigs back on to my CNX drive and VIOLA it works!!!!

Just wanted to share this for those who are having the same problem I had.

[Watcher64]

Just curious , if this reciever uses fat32 for its drive format ??

to my knowledge there is a 2gig file size limitation on the fat32 file system, so if given the option to use something else like ext2 might avoid this issue ....

Hope that might help ...

[Watcher64]

I was wrong on that it is a 4 gig limit ...

From the M$ site ..
"You cannot create a file larger than (2^32)-1 bytes (this is one byte less than 4 GB) on a FAT32 partition."

and that is for windows XP it may be different on emulated systems so not sure ....

so no help there

[lowridin_guy]

the drive is formatted in fat32. To my knowledge it is the only format the CNX recognizes.