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Adding a 120 gig "B" drive to a T-60
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Posted by: jwmghf

This is not a hacked receiver. I am a paying sub and it's at ver 3.1 and using a P4 card. The original 40 gig "A" drive has a bunch of shows on it I want to keep. I would like to bless the new 120 gig hard drive as drive "B". Put the drives back in and be good to go.

What is the simplest way to do this??? I'm not sure of the proper steps. Do I run TivoMad as the 1st step before blessing the drive?? (Or can I just bless the drive without running TivoMad)

Thanks,

jwmghf

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Posted by: weaknees

You have two options: blessing the drive or mfsadd. If you can put the A drive in your PC, you might as well do mfsadd (you need both).

Should be simple, and takes just a few seconds once you have the PC booted properly.

Michael

Posted by: jwmghf

I did hook up both drives no problem. Does it matter which drive goes to what or can I specify that in mfsadd??? (ie the original 40 gig "A" drive is on Secondary Master = hdc and the 120 gig add on drive is on Secondary Slave = hdd)

I have my drives set up this way because the ide interface cable length on the Primary slave it too short and wont reach the 120 gig add on drive.

This is where I am at:

mfsadd -x /dev/hdc /deb/hdd

One last thing before I hit enter... In my cmos it says that the Secondary Slave is only 54505 MB. But when I start the Boot cd it tells me the right size of hdd which is 120034 MB. Is it ok to continue?? (It's an old pentium 400)

Thanks for your help,

jwmghf