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Hard drive runs out of time
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Posted by: cyconley

I am trying to put a 40 gig maxtor in as drive b in my HDR212. I was trying to use a 250 meg drive to backup the image on. It that too small? The problem is that hdb(primary slave) runs out of time. Hda (Primary master) passes just fine. Whats the deal? Th bios sees all the drives and my 20 gig a drive is already unlocked. I an trying to get a larger drive to make a backup on as we speak. Can anybody help?

Posted by: Robert S

Just put a 2Gb FAT partition on your soon-to-B drive and use that for the backup phase.

250Mb may not be enough for a TiVo backup.

Posted by: cyconley

Anybody else?

Posted by: HTH

"Can not run out of time. There is infinite time. You are finite. Zathras is finite. This is wrong tool. No. No. Not good. No. No. Never use this."
-- Zathras, Babylon 5 "War Without End, part 2"

Posted by: GBL

hard drive can run out of space (fill up) or die (run out of time?) which is it?

Posted by: cyconley

I am on step 7 of the hinsdale how to.
Back up you tivo drive with mfs tools

The part where it detects the drives: hda, hdb, hdc, hdd.

When it gets to hdb it timesout and says somthing like waiting on DMA
and won't go any farther.

Posted by: Twist

Try using the "nodma" option at the boot prompt for the kernel (where normally it pauses and you hit enter) and see if that gets you past this point. Although it's going to be painful without DMA on (DMA speeds up hard disk transfers substantially).
-Twist

Posted by: jtown

It 250 meg drive certainly doesn't do DMA. I wouldn't be surprised at all if a drive that old was completely non-fucntional. There are a number of problems with using a drive that old/small. Most importantly, 250 megs may not be enough space to hold the backup image. Second, you'll probably have to manually enter its configuration in the computer's BIOS since it probably doesn't respond properly (or at all) to an ID probe. Third, you'll also have to turn off DMA in the BIOS (auto settings only work for drives that identify themselves properly). Fourth, you'll probably have to pass the parameters to Linux to get it detected properly during startup.

Fifth, the drive's probably dead as a doornail. Just because it spins up doesn't mean it's going to work. Last time I cleared <1 gig drives out of my closet, I couldn't even get two of them to work well enough to securely erase them. I had to secure them with a hammer.

Get (or borrow) a better drive to do the backup.

Posted by: Robert S

As he has this wanna-B drive sitting right infront of him that he could easily put a FAT partition on to write the backup to, I'm rather puzzled as to why this thread is still running.