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cant mount my TiVo drive
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Posted by: skabber

Hello I have had a Sony SVR2000 for a while now and just decided to install the turboNet and start playing with it. I have read the instructions and the TurbNet works great. Now I would like to get telnet, tivoWeb and tivoftpd installed. However when I have the Tivo drive installed in my computer I am not able to mount any of the partions

a bit more about my system
I run Debian Linux
/dev/hda : linux drive 1
/dev/hdb : linux drive 2
/dev/hdc : tivo drive
/dev/hdd : cdr

I tried running mfstools from my machine to backup the drive, but the drive was unreadable so I used the mfstools bootcd and was able to do a backup just fine.

After that I have tried to mount /dev/hdc4 but I get the following message
mount -t ext2 /dev/hdc4 /mnt/tivo/
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc4,
or too many mounted file systems
(could this be the IDE device where you in fact use
ide-scsi so that sr0 or sda or so is needed?)

I have also made a dos boot disk and run the qunlock program.

Can anyone give me some help on why I can't mount the drive.

Thank you.

Posted by: skabber

Once I followed the directions exactly (using the boot disks) I was able to mount the partitions. Im not sure why I couldn't mount it under my regular linux system (even with the quantum unlock kernel patch)

But Oh well it is happily running along with telnet, tivoftpd and tivoweb installed.

Posted by: cclaunch

Tivo uses PowerPC chip not Intel architecture

Byte order different

Regular Linux on Intel machine will read disk contents and partitions as scrambled, thus unable to mount.

MFSTOOLS does the unscrambling internal to the program, so it works on "normal" linux.

In order to mount the TiVo partitions, you need to run in BYTESWAP mode -- the boot disks generally include this for /dev/hdb and /dev/hdc.