Try deleting the EVA database (it is found in your EVA data save location) and then running a full scan again. Sometimes the database can get corrupted, and then strange things can occur.
Categories: EVA9150 & EVA9100
Hello all,
I recently upgraded to firmware 2.4.68 to try to clear up some issues I was having. Upgrade proceeded okay of course, but now, when I do a quick scan for new media, no new media is found despite there definitely being new media. I know there's new media, because I've put it there. And I know the EVA can see it because if I do a full scan (which takes forever because I have 10,000 files, a mix of video, audio and pictures) it finds those files along with the pre-existing ones.
I am using a ReadyNAS NV+ (4.1.5) to store most of the media, the EVA is connected to the network over wireless (via a WNHDE111).
Anyone got any ideas?
Thanks,
Rolf.
Thanks for that - seems to have worked, although the EVA is complaining to be about the library path not being writable..?
Where is the database located? If it's not on the EVA hard drive, make sure that the EVA has both read/write capabilities to that location. (Also if it is an attached USB storage, make sure it is FAT32 or NTFS)
Hi, sorry for going offtopic but:
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(Also if it is an attached USB storage, make sure it is FAT32 or NTFS)
The manual of the 9150 says usb connect is HFS+ ( apple) compatible, so its not?
thanks
Albert
Sorry, thought you were using Windows. For a Mac it's suppose to be able to read Apple format. (I don't use Macs so I've never tested it, but it should work.)
Albert1249 said:
Hi, sorry for going offtopic but:
QUOTE:
(Also if it is an attached USB storage, make sure it is FAT32 or NTFS)
The manual of the 9150 says usb connect is HFS+ ( apple) compatible, so its not?
thanks
Albert
The EVA9150/9100 is NOT compatible with HFS+ format via USB connections to the EVA, despite what Netgear's Marketing/Packaging claims.
Michael E said:
Sorry, thought you were using Windows. For a Mac it's suppose to be able to read Apple format. (I don't use Macs so I've never tested it, but it should work.)
You CAN connect to "networked" drives & Macs etc. that are formatted in HFS+ over WiFi or Ethernet. Maybe this is what Netgear's Marketing meant to say, who knows...
FWIW: I hope none of your media files are encoded at 192kb as the EVA won't recognize them... DOH!
Thanks for the Mac enduser info on the HFS+ Kermudgeon. I think your right on the "able to connect over the network" to HFS+ drives is what they meant. (Over the network shouldn't care how the drive is formatted, just the communication protocol used. :-) )
Michael E said:
Thanks for the Mac enduser info on the HFS+ Kermudgeon. I think your right on the "able to connect over the network" to HFS+ drives is what they meant. (Over the network shouldn't care how the drive is formatted, just the communication protocol used. :-) )
I just wish the EVA_ did not truncate the bandwidth via connection over WiFi, Ethernet, and USB. Throughput is 30-50% slower than similar devices over identical networks/connections, so a 802.11 N network connection to my EVA9150 yields 802.11 G throughput, at best.
It is quite odd and Netgear tech has no real answer as to why, I have been told on one call that it was my WiFi networks WPA Security slowing things down... and to change to running an "unsecured Network"!????
As I have stated else where this all makes getting content onto the internal 500GB HD a ROYAL pain in the a**.
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You might want to go over to the EVA9150 beta forums on the Netgear.com website and post some of your wireless results there. You should definitely be getting better than G speeds, so maybe some of the other users might have additional suggestions. One of the first suggestions I would guess would be to try to connect using NFS (if possible of course), where many users are seeing good transfer speed increases.
For myself I don't try to transfer large amounts of data over the network to the EVA HD, since even if the network is running optimally a 100+GB of data can take a long time. Instead when I want to move alot of data I pull the drive out of the EVA and connect it through ESATA to my PC (using a SATA to ESATA/USB2 adapter). With the theoretic 3Gb transfer rate over ESATA copying loads of data to the drive takes no time at all. I then pop it back into the EVA and let it do a rescan on the HD. :-)
Thanks Michael,
I have been to the EVA9150 beta forums on the Netgear.com website, as of my last check no fixes. I must say beta firmware [often recommended by Netgear tech support beit EVA's or ReadyNAS forums] are not an option I am interested in, unless Netgear is paying "us EVA owners/customers" to beta/QA testers that is... ;)
NFS is also not an option. Like most, I usually do large transfers at night and 100 GB blocks usually transfer in 4-5 hrs on my networks, YMMV. I have tried to connect via usb/eSATA direct to my Macs but the EVA's drive is not recognized, FWIW, I was told by tech support that "that" was not supported as the EVA uses a Linux format that most enclosures wont work with.
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WARNING: [unsolicited user opinion below]
It seems to me that when "selling" the EVA Netgear's angle is: ease of use and compatibility, you can drop it in your set-up and scan and go, a media wonder-kind.
http://www.netgear.com/Products/Entertainment/DigitalMediaPlayers/EVA9150.aspx
Yet when providing support to EVA owners/users the story changes to: convert your media to a suitable format, reformat your HD's to work with the EVA, install beta firmware to get the "advertised features" to work/work properly etc. etc.
IMHO, the entire EVA line was cobbled together & rushed to market with limited QA testing in an attempt to get a foot hold into this emerging market. While I do use my EVA daily, it is often with much frustration & needless navigation through the redundant, tangled mess of it's hideous UI. As I have said before if I did not use/own ReadyNAS's the EVA would be nearly useless for my media needs.
When pointing you to the EVA9150 beta forum, I didn't mean to suggest that there was a beta fix for your wireless issue. Since I'm guessing it has more to do with your local environment/connection, I was just pointing you there as a possible source of information, since there are a lot of extremely knowledgable users that might have some other suggestions.
I don't know enough about Macs to give an answer on connecting the drive up directly to your Mac, but I did do a quick google search on mounting Ext3 (linux) volumes on Mac computers and there does seem to be some possibilities.
Sorry to hear that you are running into so many difficulties when using the EVA9150. For most configurations and content the EVA9150 handles things just fine, but unfortunately there are always going to be exceptions. At this point I haven't found a single media player that handles every format out there, and since there are always changes in formats, file structures, etc. I don't think there ever will be. (And I wont even mention the plethora of programs people use to encode media, which often causes problems since not all encoders follow the media specs as well as they should.) So for now if there is a media type that the EVA has issues with, the easiest thing is to either download/capture it in a different format, or convert it to a playable format. I agree it's not the optimal solution, but until the specific file or file variant is supported, those are the best options.
Okay, so, just revisiting my original issue. I spoke too soon.
After I deleted the database, I did a full scan, and was able to do a quick scan and things were ok. However, now I've come to do another quick scan now I have added more things, the quick scan doesn't work again. I've tried reloading the database from the menus and quick scanning then, it still won't find any new files.
I think I sorted the database location (it was the internal HDD I was using) because it seemed to pick the wrong location by itself, but after I "saved" the database manually, I think it put it back in the original location I'd chosen.
So, I'm back to the old problem of not being able to quick scan.
Not that it's an old problem really - like I say, it only started after upgrading to this latest software.
Any ideas, Michael E?
...and another update...
I just did another quick scan in the hopes of it working.
It didn't still, at least not in the way that I needed. It found some new music files (they are on a different share to the video) that I had put in there, but not the new video files that I had put in there in the last couple of days.
I tried deselecting the Video share, and reselecting it, but it didn't pick up the new videos still.
Any ideas?
Rolf
I have the same issue when I upgraded a few weeks ago
Have you fixed it yet ?
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