Problems with Kodi 15.2 and Internal HDD

[spotlizard]

Hi,

I was wondering if someone could give me some pointers?

I have a kdlinks A300 (essentially a Q10) with a 2TB internal HDD. I'm having trouble getting Kodi 15.2 to 'see' my drive and remember where it is.

The drive was formatted using a Windows Quick format with the NTFS file system. The A300 has the latest kdlinks firmware installed. The drive shows up when I look under Settings > Storage. All my movies, music etc was copied from another (external) USB HDD to the WD drive and shows up. Each movie is in its own folder that corresponds to the name of the movie. Same with music.

I was able to add my files by browsing to  Root File System > MNT > SDA (folder name) and the libraries showed up correctly on the main Kodi menu screens.

I power the device off after each use and I found that the next time I turned it back on I could not see it under Root File System > MNT (there is no sda entry at all). My movies are still showing up when I'm on the main Kodi screen and click "Movies" or Music" but I no longer have an option to scan for new content and it will occasionally tell me that it can no longer locate the file and asks me if I want to delete it (presumably from the library).

Is there a way in which the drive can be mounted so that it always shows up under MNT > sda? I'm not that familiar with the Android OS but I'm pretty technically savvy. Am I going about adding files the right way, or is there a preferred way of doing this?

My sincere thanks in advance.

[futeko.com]

Q10 internal HDD should always be mounted under mnt/sda/sda1.

After rebooting the Q10 does 'sda1' appear in Kodi Videos-Files menu? (not browse for files, in the higher level menu).

One thing I notice from your description of the problem is that you added folder 'Root File System > MNT > SDA' to Kodi. The HDD is actually mounted one folder deeper at mnt/sda/sda1, if you start from scratch and add this folder does Kodi retain drive location?

[spotlizard]

Hi,

Thank you so much for the prompt reply.

In my case, the problem appears to be that, following a shutdown/restart, there isn't an SDA location showing up under MNT (so I can never get inside that to access sda1 because the parent location does not appear - if that makes sense).

When I browse to the Kodi Video Files menu I see my Movies folder, so that information is being cached somewhere, but I can't do much with it. Ideally what I'd like to do is to remove that location altogether. My movies are subcategorised into folders such as Drama, Animation etc. and I'd like to be able to add those instead of the top level 'Movies' folder but I just can't seem to be able to find sda1 again so that I can add and scan those folders.

Best regards

[shineyads]

Hi spotlizard,

Did you ever solve this issue?