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Best hard drive, 300 gb and up
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Posted by: pvalery

This will be for my Pioneer tivo.
Which in your opinion is the best manuf and would you recommand?
Of course it has to be very quiet.

Posted by: Robert S

Aren't Maxtor the only 300Gb mfr ATM?

Posted by: jtown

Can the 810 handle large drives? I'd think that would be generating a lot of buz on the board if they'd broken the 137 gig barrier.

And there are two choices for 300 gig drives as far as I know. Maxtor or nothing. And even there you're not going to go "up" from 300 right now.

Posted by: Robert S

The amount of effort required to 'break the barrier' is relatively small. The problem is more likely to be qualifying a new kernel for release. As the DVD/TiVoes presumably needed new kernels anyway, adding LBA-48 would not have been a problem.

I don't know about 'buzz', but both WeaKnees and PTVupgrade are saying it works.

Posted by: weaknees

It works - we're selling them! They have kernel 2.4.20 - and we DO consider it big news. We're all just hoping that this kernel will get used in earlier TiVos, but there's no word yet there.

Michael

Posted by: tivoupgrade

quote:
Originally posted by Robert S
The amount of effort required to 'break the barrier' is relatively small. The problem is more likely to be qualifying a new kernel for release. As the DVD/TiVoes presumably needed new kernels anyway, adding LBA-48 would not have been a problem.

I don't know about 'buzz', but both WeaKnees and PTVupgrade are saying it works.

It definitely works. Unfortunately, as-is, MFStools and tpip do not allow creation of a > 127MB swap file (I know that is one of your concerns, Robert) with the standard LBA48 boot CDs out there. We've got a workaround process that does let us create the larger swap files, though; just a bit ugly right now.

As for general LBA48 support on the Series2...

I've gotten the new kernel running in my Series2 80 hour here. So its probably safe to say we've broken the barrier for the MIPS-based models of Series2 units...

Lou

Posted by: Robert S

Yes, you're going to be a bit stuck if you get a GSOD on a Series 2 and 128Mb of swap isn't enough - the lock-down would prevent you adding a swap file in /var or the inactive root partition to your existing swap. Hopefully by the time these upgrades become common Todd will have figured out how to make tpip work for the Series 2's. Of course, as long as you make a big enough hole, you don't necessarily need to make a big swap partition right away. 127Mb is enough for normal operations - you could delay using the whole area you've allocated for swap until you get a GSOD.

Anyway, no-one's asked me for help with the details of doing this yet, hopefully it'll be prettier by the time they do...

Are you giving me credit for suggesting using the Pioneer kernel on existing Series 2's, or did you think of it first?

Posted by: tivoupgrade

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Originally posted by Robert S
Yes, you're going to be a bit stuck if you get a GSOD on a Series 2 and 128Mb of swap isn't enough - the lock-down would prevent you adding a swap file in /var or the inactive root partition to your existing swap. Hopefully by the time these upgrades become common Todd will have figured out how to make tpip work for the Series 2's. Of course, as long as you make a big enough hole, you don't necessarily need to make a big swap partition right away. 127Mb is enough for normal operations - you could delay using the whole area you've allocated for swap until you get a GSOD.

Anyway, no-one's asked me for help with the details of doing this yet, hopefully it'll be prettier by the time they do...

Are you giving me credit for suggesting using the Pioneer kernel on existing Series 2's, or did you think of it first?

I've got some email going back-and-forth with Todd on this; we were under the impression that Series2 swap initialization did work properly for the Series2. There is definitely a dependency on the kernel used on the boot CD; but haven't quite figured it out yet -- lots of variables.

As for credit... Well, you did mention it on the forum first. But I hate to say that I'd already tried (and failed) in my initial attempts at that point. At that stage I had completely disassembled the unit and was more interested in seeing if I could add another drive!