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linux problems with MFS Tools 2.0
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Posted by: reeg2

i had no luck getting the boot cd to work. it just gave me so much grief that i decided to go with the floppy.

well, the floppy works, but i'm getting some grief from the commands. can anyone help?

I tried running the command:
mfsadd -x /dev/hdb /dev/hdc but it did not work. i'm guessing that's because it tried my cd-rom since it's lined out at hdc. i've got my main tivo drive at hda my new drive at hdb and my cd-rom at hdc. i'm running the tools off of the floppy. i surmised that since i don't have a windows drive hooked up, and moved everything up one in the chain that i could just change the comman to mfsadd -x /dev/hdb /dev/hda but that didn't work either. when i run that command, it says:

# mfsadd -x /dev/hdb /dev/hda
/dev/hdb10: Success
mfs_load_volume_header: mfsvol_read_data: Input/Output Error

What am I doing wrong?
Thanks for the help.

Posted by: Robert S

Isn't hda your A drive and hdb your B (or soon-to-B) drive?

Posted by: reeg2

yeah, i think so. this is my first swaray into linux, so i'm just wingin' it. do i need to flip it around to say:

mfsadd -x /dev/hda /dev/hdb

I only have the two drives in there, so i've had to adjust the commands to make it work for me.

Posted by: Robert S

If you're new to Linux, why are you being creative without fully understanding what you're doing?

Anyway, yes, that command line should work.

Posted by: reeg2

new to linux, not new to computers.

i'm good at noticing the pattern or way to do things. once you get down the way it works, you just sub in all the subs and values to make it work. i usually would have tried that command, but i dearly love my tivo and don't want to mess it up! =) thanks for the help, i'll let you know how it goes.

Posted by: reeg2

success! thanks!