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Posted by: conductorJ

Am about to undertake first attempt at a Series 1 upgrade. Ordered 2 120G Maxtor drives. My comp is running XP Pro on a ATA133 C drive, using an ATA133 controller card. Also have 2 40G backup drives, both formatted NTFS. I want to set up the comp to as close to your example instructions as I can before I start the upgrade, and don't want to partition the C drive I have now, so I'm planning on taking the present C drive out of the comp, and using one of the 40G drives reformatted to FAT32, and using the IDE controllers on the mobo(ATA100). I have a copy of WIN98 I could put on the reformatted drive, but using a DOS boot disk, would I really have to? I'll download all the utilities I will or might need before reconfiguring the comp, do the upgrade, and when done, put the FAT 32 drive back in my XP configuration, to get the TIVO drive image burned to CD-R. Don't think burning the image from a Win98 install is an option, because I using Sony DRU 500AX DVD burner, that is not supported under Win 98.
Saw in the forum, that TIVO is going to be sending new Linux software sometime in November. Is this date confirmed yet? I'll wait to do the upgrade until I get it, in this case.
See any potential problems with this plan? Any advice would be appreciated. Want to milk my lifetime TIVO contract as long as I can.

Posted by: Robert S

You just need a drive with a FAT partition on it. Put a small FAT partition on one of your new drives if that's easier than messing with a drive that's in use.

You will need to use the mobo's IDE connectors while Linux is running as it's too old to auto-detect the interface card.

You want to avoid having a drive with a TiVo image actually on it and a bootable Windows XP drive attached at the same time.

Apart from that, you'll be fine.

It's a bit late now, but as this is a Series 1 you could have put 1 250Gb drive in there instead of the 120's.

I think everyone here will be very surprised if the Series 1 stand alone TiVoes ever get another software revision.

Posted by: conductorJ

Forgot to mention, it's a series 1 Sony T-60. Will the new software affect me?

quote:
Originally posted by Robert S
You just need a drive with a FAT partition on it. Put a small FAT partition on one of your new drives if that's easier than messing with a drive that's in use.

You will need to use the mobo's IDE connectors while Linux is running as it's too old to auto-detect the interface card.

You want to avoid having a drive with a TiVo image actually on it and a bootable Windows XP drive attached at the same time.

Apart from that, you'll be fine.

It's a bit late now, but as this is a Series 1 you could have put 1 250Gb drive in there instead of the 120's.

I think everyone here will be very surprised if the Series 1 stand alone TiVoes ever get another software revision.

Posted by: Robert S

It won't have much effect. You might want to make a fresh compressed backup at some point after the upgrade comes in, but it'll reupgrade automatically if you have to revert to an earlier version for some reason.

Posted by: conductorJ

(your quote):
You want to avoid having a drive with a TiVo image actually on it and a bootable Windows XP drive attached at the same time.

If I understand this correctly, I wouldn't be able to put the FAT 32 drive with the Tivo image on it back in the XP configuration, as a secondary master or slave, to be able to burn it to cd-r, correct? If so, I'm open to suggestions on how to go about getting a cd-r backup. Only thing I can think of, is to take the cd-rw out of my wife's comp, to burn it under Win98, but I'd rather not do that if I can avoid it. Doing the whole thing on my wife's comp is not really an option. She's running 98SE, but there isn't room in her case for 4 hard drives.

quote:
Originally posted by Robert S
You just need a drive with a FAT partition on it. Put a small FAT partition on one of your new drives if that's easier than messing with a drive that's in use.

You will need to use the mobo's IDE connectors while Linux is running as it's too old to auto-detect the interface card.

You want to avoid having a drive with a TiVo image actually on it and a bootable Windows XP drive attached at the same time.

Apart from that, you'll be fine.

It's a bit late now, but as this is a Series 1 you could have put 1 250Gb drive in there instead of the 120's.

I think everyone here will be very surprised if the Series 1 stand alone TiVoes ever get another software revision.

Posted by: Robert S

A TiVo image is different to a TiVo backup. The backup is an ordinary file and will co-exist with XP quite happily.

The image is the totality of the hard drive contents and XP will corrupt the boot block.

Posted by: conductorJ

So by the Tivo image, you mean what I transfer over to the new hard drives, and what was on the original Tivo hard drive(s). The backup will be on the FAT 32 drive, that will stay in the computer, after I put my XP configuration back, with my ATA133 C drive. The old Tivo drives, and the new Tivo drives will be out of the comp, before that. With the backup file, I'll burn to cd-r, off the FAT 32 drive, using XP and my DVD burner. Right? There's a light at the end of the tunnel. Hope it isn't a train. ;-)

quote:
Originally posted by Robert S
A TiVo image is different to a TiVo backup. The backup is an ordinary file and will co-exist with XP quite happily.

The image is the totality of the hard drive contents and XP will corrupt the boot block.

Posted by: conductorJ

I found a good deal on a 5400 rpm 120G hard drives on the net. Yahoo shopping. New company out of Califonia. The lady I dealt with was very helpful. Got them for $93, U.S., each. The 5400 rpm's should run a little cooler than 7200's. She said they were sold out of them, but checked with another supplier, and found me 2. Might be more of them. If anyone wants the address, let me know.
Also....thought there was a 137G limit on hard drives going into a series 1 Directivo? Did I read that wrong?

quote:
Originally posted by Robert S
You just need a drive with a FAT partition on it. Put a small FAT partition on one of your new drives if that's easier than messing with a drive that's in use.

You will need to use the mobo's IDE connectors while Linux is running as it's too old to auto-detect the interface card.

You want to avoid having a drive with a TiVo image actually on it and a bootable Windows XP drive attached at the same time.

Apart from that, you'll be fine.

It's a bit late now, but as this is a Series 1 you could have put 1 250Gb drive in there instead of the 120's.

I think everyone here will be very surprised if the Series 1 stand alone TiVoes ever get another software revision.

Posted by: Robert S

You have to change the kernel to use a large drive, but people seem to be getting it to work.