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No boot after HDVR2 upgrade
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Posted by: sirksnevets

After upgrading my HDVR2 with a 2nd hard drive, my TIVO hangs at the "Welcome - Powering Up" screen.

I haven't given the vendor of the new drive a fair chance to respond to my questions so I won't say who I got it from. However, you'd all know them, they sell ready to install second drives.

Two things are worrying me, not sure if either of them are meaningful.

1. the new drive has no jumpers - no cable select or otherwise. In a PC I would be pretty sure that it would need either the "slave" or "cable select" option jumped. When the drive is connected to its power and IDE cable, it makes NO NOISE whatsoever when the TIVO powers up. The other drive does make some normal hard drive noise but it stops pretty quickly then just sits there.

2. The factory installed drive has an option jumped that I'm not sure about - "limit capacity". Maybe it should be "master" or "cable select".

It's possible that I just haven't waited long enough. Do the drives take some time to "marry" ? (have given them at least 30 minutes)

Even with the new drive unplugged from both the IDE and power, the old drive will still not boot now. I suspect that the cause of all the trouble might be a bad IDE cable shipped with the new drive.

Anybody have a suggestion?

Thanks,

Sirk

Posted by: ADent

On my older DTiVo it shipped with one drive as CS (Cable Select) and the other with no jumper at all (which turns out to be slave on many Maxtors).

Remember that the CS drive has to be on the far end of the cable.

You will need to get in touch with the vendor to straighten it out.

Posted by: weaknees

Hi--

Not sure if you purchased the drive from us, but you should feel free to contact us by email if you did (or even if you didn't). If we missed your email for some reason, please try again.

FYI, the 'slave' setting on newer Samsung 120gb drives is 'no jumper,' so I would not be concerned if that is the type of drive you received.

Depending on the cable you received from the vendor, you may need to move the jumper on your factory drive to master, and you may need to put it at the end of the chain. The 'master' setting on your drive depends on the drive model that came with the TiVo. What do the current jumper settings on your master drive look like?

Michael