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need HDVR2 upgrade help
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Posted by: vmonk

I just when through a hard drive upgrade on my HDVR2 SW version 3.1.0. I replaced the original 40 meg drive with a 60 meg drive (one for one swap). Used mfstool2 and all seemed to go well. I completed a backup and made a test run. I Tivo Booted up fine and all seemed to me well except the hard drive seemed to suffle a lot.

From there I run a complete copy/expand and again all seemed to go well with no errors. I did notice that it report "44 hours (4 more)" when the program stoped. I expected to get about 52 hours (17 more) since I increased the drive space by 50 percent.

I installed the drive into the Tivo. The Tivo Booted up and all seemed to be fine. I check the system report and it said I had 35 hours record time, I expected to see the 52 hours. Also the drive keep shuffling (a lot), like when I run scan disc or defrag on the PC. Then I went to play an old recording which was suppose to copy and that wouldn't work. It asked me if I wanted to delete the recording right off the bat. When I said no, then tivo said that it didn't record because of no signal??

So 3 problems:
1) drive shuffle
2) no increase in max record time as reported in system report
3). can't play old files that were suppose to copy over

Thanks for any help!

Posted by: weaknees

Can't play old files is easy - you made a backup without files (-6so, usually). That means you'll get the list in Now Playing, but not the files themselves.

The drive shuffling may be normal setup - plus the TiVo is always writing its buffer. Is it possible that the 60 is just louder than the (already-loud) 40 so you hear it more?

No increase in time may be improper jumper settings. What size does your BIOS report on boot in the PC?

Michael

Posted by: vmonk

Problem solved....

The drive acts just like it did during the TEST run! I was thinking about that along with the fact that I have a 45 GIG drive in my PC. CRAP!!!! I wrote the copy/expand to my PC drive! Sure enough, I tried booting the PC and got a boot error. Put the PC drive in the Tivo and there it was. Reported 39 hour record time (extra 5 gig space) and played all old programs.

Now I can't take the ENTIRE blame (sure some of it was my fault for not checking each step). But at the beginning of the hinsdale how-to document, they define the default IDE connections

hda - pc FAT32 C: drive
hdb - primary slave - new bigger single drive
hdc - secondary master - old tivo drive
hdd - secondary slave - cd cd-rw drive

those settings worked fine for the backup and test steps. But when you perform the copy/expand command for a single to single drive (slow option):

mfsbackup -Tao - /dev/hdc | mfsrestore -s 127 -xzpi - /dev/hda

YOU END UP WRITING TO THE FAT32 PC DRIVE!!!!

Well I should have looked at the boot script to varify the drive settings.
Luckily I didn't use my new XP computer, but was using the old Windows-ME computer. I don't think I lost anything important.

Thanks for the help!
Everyone beware!

Posted by: vmonk

Oh yea, about the hard drive shuffle...
The 40 Gig Maxtor drive that came with the Tivo is very quite and that's why I didn't notice the suffle! The 60 Gig Maxtor (new) 7200 ATA133 is a LOT noisier!

So how do you know when your buying a quite drive??

Any recommendations for a 120 Gig drive that is very quite (I'll pay a little more for for less noise).

Thanks again!

Posted by: weaknees

Generally, the Samsung drives are much quieter than the Maxtors.

Michael

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