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Upgrading Hughes DVR2
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Posted by: amatin

Greetngs,

Well, I'm iinto hour 19 of trying to upgrade from a single drive Hughes DVR2 to a dual drive unit.

Right now, I'm re-doing it as a single dirve (120gig) full copy of the original drive, and, if that works, attempt to add the second drive seperately.

The first time around, I tried the straight, copy everything, from one to two drives. After much effort, I finally got to the GSOD. Upon researching GSOD here, I'm assuming that if the system reboots constantly at about 4-5 minute interals, the fsck (or tivo equivalent) is not completing due to lack of swap space. I'm assuming that the -s 127 switch on the restore command creates a 127 meg (approx) swap file. Is 127 not enough to repair a 240 gig system?

The quick back up/restore on the first drive worked, so, at this point, I'm assuming the first drive is okay. That's why i'm doing a full copy to a single 120 gig drive first, to make sure I can get that far.

If adding the second drive causes the GSOD, I'm gonna runn low level diagnostics/format on the second drive. *sigh*

If after reading this, anyone has insights that I might've missed, it would be greatly appreciated to hear them :)

Regargs,
Brian

Posted by: Robert S

127Mb of swap is enough for 274Gb of drive space, the maximum a TiVo can handle with the stock kernel.

I would have tried putting the backup on the second drive too, just to check that that drive is OK in the TiVo.

There are some odd cases where drives just don't work together. You might also want to check weaknees.com to see if you need a PowerTrip or similar.

Posted by: amatin

yeah, I thought about trying the second as a standalone. *IF* plan A fails, I'll do that. And interestingly enough...I *do* have a spare 120gig drive floating around...

Thanks for the tip on weaknees.com..i'll check it out

Posted by: amatin

Greetings,

After *much* effort, and not excatly sure what I did, I finally got two drives that booted more than once. In the process, I think I did manage to loose the original drive, but, I believe I have a working back up now.

Once things booted successfully, I re-assembed the unit.

For people doing smiliar machines, beware. They tell you not to touch the white cable, but, at least in the hughes unit, it is almost impossible to installl a second drive *whithout* touching it, in this tucking it under the ide cable from the second drive.

While the end result is now good, it took me more than 30 hours to do it.

Hope it goes better for others!!

Regards,
Brian

Posted by: Kev

Welcome to the TiVolution Brian! :)

Posted by: DeputyTIVO

quote:
Originally posted by amatin
They tell you not to touch the white cable, but, at least in the hughes unit, it is almost impossible to installl a second drive *whithout* touching it, in this tucking it under the ide cable from the second drive.

I didn't even come close to touching the white cable using the Weaknees Twinbreeze Complete kit ... what bracket did you use?

***Update 10/3***
My statement is incorrect ... I put a Twinbreeze kit in my Philips tonight and had to carefully tuck the white cable under the bracket. I don't know what I was thinking when I originally wrote this ... sorry.

Posted by: amatin

I used the bracket from 9th tee