Hi,

I have a new DM800, and on the box it indicates it should have 256MB of memory, however on booting it up it appears to have 128:

root@dm800:/tmp# free
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 125020 98520 26500 0 100
Swap: 0 0 0
Total: 125020 98520 26500

This appears to be done by specifying a kernel parameter limiting the memory to 128M:

root@dm800:/tmp# cat /proc/cmdline
root=/dev/mtdblock3 rootfstype=jffs2 rw mem=128M console=null

Is there any reason for this? Is the second 128MB of address space reserved for the framebuffer or something?

Your disk may need to be formatted so that the dreambox can access it..

If you took the external HD from a windows box and the disk is quite big it may be formatted with NTFS which is a proprietary microsoft filesystem that i doubt the dreambox can read...

If you only want to use the drive with your dreambox and other linux machines you can initialize it from within the menu, if you want to use it with windows you will have to format it as fat32, and know that fat32 won't support files larger than 2gb (ie no very long or high definition movies)