On 19/04/2008, Nigel Whitfield wrote in message <7c518ae3-381d-4bd6-a981-
575170cfee1f@l64g2000hse.googlegroups.com>:
 
> This sounds much more subtle - as you say, pretty much as if an evil
> pixie had come in and chosen the format option for you. I don't recall
> anything like that, on any firmware.

Yes, it was very weird.  I did look at the www.toppy.org.uk fora after it
happened but I didn't see any reports of anything like it.  I could only
conclude it was a one-off.

> If you can think of anything else - any weird preceding behaviour, or
> any particular menu options you might have used - that might help
> narrow it down, if it can be reproduced.

No warning, no strange behaviour before hand.  The only strange thing
about that week was that it was the week that the clocks went forward.

After the incident I have started noticing that I'm getting quite a few
bad recordings: perhaps one recording in eight has ended up with either a
zero-length recording or a recording of the wrong channel or the programme
before or after what I wanted.  Although I'd read that lots of people got
these with the new firmware, I think I saw only one before the incident.

> How full was the disk? Some
> people running with very little (5% or less, I think) free space have
> sometimes seen files truncated, but again not this wholesale erasing
> of the disk.

About 50% full, with about 40 saved recordings in three folders.  Some of
the recordings were very old (from shortly after the initial import of the
5800.  I do have 36 entries on my recording schedule, though.  I bet
that's high.  I'm usually out when my favourite programmes are on so I
need something with capable recording properties.  That's why the new
firmware is important to me.

Simon.
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