Keeping drive order

[PJDavis1970]

Is there any way to keep the drives in same order?

I installed an internal drive over weekend and have usb drives plus nas.

Problem I am finding is drive assignment keeps changing.  Anyway to fix drives with sda, sdb, etc , etc

Thanks

[rodthebod]

Same here, I have four external SATA drives on a powered USB hub (one is a 2.5" drive), I have to keep the system on line all the time because after a reboot the  assigned drive changes which screws up Kodi and all the nicely configured links to my movies and TV shows. 

Takes ages to reassign the drive letters..........

A fix would be good, this doesn't occur on my old Bluetimes BT3550 linux/android box.

[PJDavis1970]

Would be interesting to know if this problem was in the original Q5 / Q10.

New to himedia and trying to judge quality of the products.  EG..  If this was a problem in earlier machines it shows maybe I should forget ever getting fixes for issues I see in the boxes however if it wasn't in earlier machines then how come its in the new boxes.  Surely himedia know the development term called libraries

[stack]

This is a known issue with the  previous generation Q5/Q10 4k3D.
I had hoped that they will fix it by Q10Pro, at least, but let's see.

[PJDavis1970]

This is a known issue with the  previous generation Q5/Q10 4k3D.
I had hoped that they will fix it by Q10Pro, at least, but let's see.

So they never got round to fixing it in earlier machines?  Damn that should have been quite hi on the list.

OK this is not good news.  semes like a company that

- creates machine. realease with semi working firmware.
- move everyone onto new products and allocate minimal hours per week for occasional (HI Priority) fixes.

Problem is for some people this issue is a major issue and if it never got fixed in previous hardware i dont see it getting fixed in this one so this changes things for me.  Think ill put the q10 pro on ebay and go back to Pi3 until something fully working comes out.

[stack]

I hope they will fix it soon.
By previous gen Q10 internal HDD is SATA connected through internal USB, probably there is a mess, because of that.
Or this may be an Android problem.
Now we have full and real SATA.


Some old topics for the previous gen:

http://www.futeko.com/newforum/index.php?topic=32.msg1864#msg1864

http://www.futeko.com/newforum/index.php?topic=253.0

In my Q5 4k3D (waiting to receive my Q10pro next week) the drive order is changing after restart, but not every time.
So, the temporary "solution" with Q10pro at the moment could be not to switch it off.
Anyway, there is no big difference in power consumption at stand by and working mode, so we can keep it running.

[Alter_Schwede62]

I would even prefer, that the naming of the Drives would be the same, as in the Zidoo X6 Pro.
There we do not have:

sda1, sdb1, sdb2, sdc1 and so on...

No, they read out the drive's label name, what in my case would be:
Action, Classics, Family, Comedy, Top Stars, War, and so on.

If Himedia would do that too, it wouldn't matter, in which order the drives would be, because, we could see real and meaningful names.

[rodthebod]

Naming the drives to a meaningful label would be a great feature,

I have noticed that once the drive letters have been messed up by a reboot, by rebooting once again it can sort them out into the correct order as originally set.

I have done this three times now over the past few days and rebooting twice does work.......   strange

Can't think why?

[LLChris]

Phew..  what a relief to see I'm not alone on this. I first thought I'm doing something wrong, because my Kodi kept losing its library. Only days later I realised my wife watched a movie off an USB drive and left it plugged in. Now I check the Q10 every time before starting it, not to f*ck the whole library up. That's an extremely annoying problem and I certainly hope it's right there on top of Himedia's to do list.

[Alter_Schwede62]

I only get this meanwhile worked, by sorting my movies by date, descending.
For me normal, because I want to see my newest movies on top.

[myc@ll]

[Nice Monkey]

Have a player with dual boot and the Andoid OS works as described here but OpenElec OS gives Volume labels.

For pure KODI nothing beats OpenElec.

[Phil181]

Problem I am finding is drive assignment keeps changing.  Anyway to fix drives with sda, sdb, etc , etc

Agree this is something that would be very useful.  Does Android allow drive mapping like Windows?
In my situation (internal and external USB drive), I now always switch on the Q10 Pro first and then turn on the USB drive (if I am going to use it).
This does keep the drive names consistent for Kodi library  and I have not had to "Clean Up" the library since doing this.

[qqq1971]

Hi

I did small script to fix the problem. All mounted disks links into /mnt/disk-by-uuid and /mnt/disk-by-label folders.

https://cloud.mail.ru/public/3WEQ/7c6KDNH4D

Restrictions:
1. It is provided "as is", without any garantee. I tested it on Q10 Pro, firmware 1.0.5. On other firmwares it can work too I think.
2. All disks have to be attached to box before boot. Hotplug does not supported.
3. Only first 4 mounted disks will be linked
4. For disk with multiple partions only first partition will be linked.
5. If disks has identical labels only first disk will be linked.
6. Wait about 2 min after boot. Master init script has delay before my script will be run.

Install and uninstal:
1. Download and unzip.
2. Run RUN_ME.bat, enter players ip-address, select action.

Thanks pcristi and looun.