I just connected a seagate external hard to my motorola dvr cause im running outta room and the sata port?

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which is ment specifically for an external hard drive is not active yet and the usb ports arent active yet either. i know the firewire ports are active so i bought this external hard drive with the firewire option on it and connected it. I was already coming close to running outta room on the dvrs hard drive so i figured i would know if its working or not pretty soon. I recorded some shows and i was thinking ok it must be working cause i recorded a few one hour shows but then i tried recording another and the dreaded message poped up that said u have no more space left! so i would like to know if im doing something wrong or the firewire ports arent ment to support a hard drive or somebody else said that u have to install drivers with like a CDROM software there is no optical drive to do this. which makes sense if ur connecting it to a computer with firewire port and an optical drive then u would have no problem k thanks for any info! Star Trek rocks

im talking about my DVR not my computer u ********!

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now it could be as simple as the external drive has not been correctly configured to use all of its available space or it may be split into several smaller drives.
the problem you are experiancing sounds like a space error not an unable to record error or unable to connect.
as for the ports problem that sounds like either your BIOS/CMOS has not been correctly configured or the control panel has the ports disabled.
finally depending on your drives capacity and the quality you are recording at it could use up a lot of space to record your video files, so try setting the record quality to good or better, best should only be used for something you re recording to your hard drive and plan to copy to a DVD later. to be honest in my experiance i find there is no difference in quality between good and best on my machine. but then i'm not using the same hard ware as you.

you could also attempt to take the hard drive out of it's case and install it internally on your computer.

and what do you mean a few? some systems use about 1MB per second others 1MB per minute. you need to look at your quality settings and do you really need to record at that level. if you are recording HDTV this uses a lot more disc space than a normal tv tuner or so i'm told.

good luck.