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[zeratul75]

Hello
I have an 5222l revision hw B1 which is recording onto a network hard drive using SAMBA protocol.
Everything is going fine, but I have a small issue.
Basically, I dedicated an entire 500gb hard drive to do this task. Formatted capacity is 465gb (windows says this, and I know this is normal).
I configured the camera to do continuos recording h24, limit file 50mb.
I expected the camera uses the entire space available (the hard disk is used by the camera only) but 5222l starts deleting old records when hard drive remaining space is more or less 45gb. Basically, It uses 420gb only, and left 45gb unused. I tried to increase the maximum limite of overall records, but this is not the problem, since I input a data even bigger than total hard disk space (let's say 600.000mb) and nothing changes.
I have another 5222l camera which is not recording at all: tried to switch cameras and make it doing the same kind of recording but the problem remains, letting me think both camera have no harware problem.

That space is "real" because I can used it under windows (just tryed to experiment purpose).
How is this possible?
Any advice on what I could try?

[RYAT3]

Interesting.   

To answer your question- no idea. Sorry.

How many days is that 45Gb anyways?  3? 

[BAMoh]

Hello
I have an 5222l revision hw B1 which is recording onto a network hard drive using SAMBA protocol.
Everything is going fine, but I have a small issue.
Basically, I dedicated an entire 500gb hard drive to do this task. Formatted capacity is 465gb (windows says this, and I know this is normal).
I configured the camera to do continuos recording h24, limit file 50mb.
I expected the camera uses the entire space available (the hard disk is used by the camera only) but 5222l starts deleting old records when hard drive remaining space is more or less 45gb. Basically, It uses 420gb only, and left 45gb unused. I tried to increase the maximum limite of overall records, but this is not the problem, since I input a data even bigger than total hard disk space (let's say 600.000mb) and nothing changes.
I have another 5222l camera which is not recording at all: tried to switch cameras and make it doing the same kind of recording but the problem remains, letting me think both camera have no harware problem.

That space is "real" because I can used it under windows (just tryed to experiment purpose).
How is this possible?
Any advice on what I could try?

IMO the cam is designed to record to network drives but you must use DViewCam not your own implementation. That is probably the reason for the 45GB cap.

[zeratul75]

45gb is around 2 days......not much, I know, but better than nothing 

as far as recording "by software" I cannot doing it, because the network hard drive is not installed on a "open" OS.
Basically, it is connected to a adsl router, which has a usb port. The router has this feature.
Anyway, I bought the 5222l model because it has samba protocol supported, so I don't want to make this job done by software.
I would have bought other models cheaper if I wanted this configuration.
The camera does the job very well by its own hardware.......