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Moving drives from SA to D-Tivo
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Posted by: Bubbamill

I have an SA Tivo that is upgraded with two 120GB Maxtor drives. I want to remove these 2 month old drives and use one each in two different D-Tivos. They will replace the existing drives to form expanded single drive D-Tivos.

I've seen threads that say the newer Maxtors get locked once they are placed in the SA Tivo and that running qunlock is not a good thing.

Since I have to treat each of these drives like a new drive and use Hinsdale's procedure to install them into the D-Tivos, is this even possible if they are now locked?

Is there any recovery from this? Or do I have to buy new drives and just keep the old ones in the SA?

Posted by: weaknees

You should go ahead and try - they may or may not be locked, and going into DirecTiVos, they may not get re-locked. Also, using qunlock here should be fine.

Michael

Posted by: Bubbamill

Weaknees,

I thought I read that the newer Maxtor drives had different firmware and that qunlock could ruin them by using commands intended for older drives?

I thought I saw some strong statements to never never use qunlock anymore? I could be mistaken. I read so many posts that they all start to blend together!

Thanks...

Posted by: Robert S

We don't really know what's going on with the current Maxtor drives. If you read the locking thread you'll see posts from people who've apparently destroyed drives with qunlock and other posts where it has successfully unlocked a drive with the same model number.

The current best guess is the that qunlock can unlock the drives /if they are locked by the TiVo/. If they are not locked then qunlock seems to irreversably lock them. In the end, though, you sort of run out of options - you either return the drives or run qunlock on them.

Posted by: weaknees

Right - there's no reason NOT to try qunlock if the drives are causing problems - if you don't, you can only RMA them, if you do, the worst that happens is that you have to RMA them.

Michael