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Posted by: MrCoolDu4

I'm upgrading today and before I go any further, my drives are showing up the correct size, but they are labeled as hde, hdf, hdg, &hdh. Is this right? I was thinking a,b,c,&d. As far as whats going on with the hd1,2,3,&4 , they show up but I cant understand what the numbers and letters mean there. I want to use the commands that came with the Hinsdale directions as I know nothing of Linux. I have a motherboard with RAID and two more IDE's but its disabled on the mobo but it shows up in the menu. I was wondering what to do as I dont wanna mess this up. Quick answer appreciated. Thanks

Posted by: weaknees

Is the RAID card still installed? How is it disabled? Are the IDE drives on a secondary PCI card?

Michael

Posted by: MrCoolDu4

Its an Asus A7V266-E motherboard that has 4 slots for ribbon cables right on the mobo. Its got Promise IDE 1 & 2 connectors and its got the primary and secondary also. The RAID is disabled on a mobo jumper thats either set for RAID or IDE. I'm now thinking about downloading DTivoMad 4.0 to see if I can get it to work with that version. If you can think of anything I'd appreciate the help as I dont want to have to put this back together the same way I just took it apart. Thanks

Posted by: weaknees

The only issue I can think of that might cause a problem is that older TiVo tools wouldn't operate on certain drive assignments. I don't think this is an issue with mfstools 2.0, but I haven't tried hde, hdf, etc.

Just make sure you know which drive is which and give it a shot and report back. If you aren't sure which is which when you boot, you might want to boot with only one drive attached so that you'll know which ribbon cable is the third bus and which is the fourth.

Michael