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SVR2000 upgrade
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Posted by: kanati8869

I've been resisting it for quite a while.. should I upgrade or buy a series 2?

Well I decided that the only real reason I was looking at a series 2 was for the 80 hour as opposed to my 30 hour, so I finally decided to bite the bullet and drop a 40 gig drive I have laying around here into my tivo...

I've had this thing about 2 years now and I've really been leery about messing with it, but the time has come... I have the entire season of Dead Like Me sitting on it and I'm tired of shuffling a few programs in and out of the remaining space until I can send the DLM eps to my computer for deposit onto DVD...

So... I have "blessed" the drive and it went without a hitch. I plan on opening up my nice silver cased tivo tonight... I'm nervous as h3ll because I definitely don't want to louse this up. I'm a programmer and techie by trade so computer innards don't phase me, but here's the 64 million dollar question... Are there any "gotchas" I should look out for? If I read the instructions correctly it's going to be a simple matter of dropping the drive in and closing it back up, and turning it on...

Anything I should look for... avoid... drop kick while I'm putzing around in there?

Thanks!

Kanati

Posted by: Robert S

Ideally, yes, that's how it works.

However, my recommendation is to avoid BlessTiVo if possible. You should use MFS Tools to make a compressed backup off your A drive and then use mfsadd to marry the new drive as a B drive.

If the 40Gb drive is a Maxtor, then you don't really want to put it in the TiVo until it's married to the A drive (because the TiVo may lock it). Using mfsrestore to restore your compressed backup to that drive is a useful test, though.

Basically, I'm suggesting you follow New Hinsdale rather than Old Hinsdale. Work from the current copy of Hinsdale, and not any old 'guide' that you might have found lying around on a web site somewhere.

How can I put this tactfully... You're in a high risk group for messing things up. You know your PC inside out and you're going to project those expectations on to the TiVo. Not all of those expectations are valid. Some of the things in Hinsdale don't make sense for the PC architecture, but they are necessary for TiVo (and vice-versa, infact).

The strange thing is that people who know nothing about computers never have a problem. They just do what Hinsdale says and it works. The quote about a little learning being a dangerous thing comes to mind.

And if you do decide to vary things, you might want to query here before doing it. George would thank you if you did...

Posted by: kanati8869

welp... just decided "what the hell" and bit the bullet.

It worked. Woohoo and stuff. :D

my 30 hour now says 82 hours so I'm quite happy.

Thanks for the advice Robert. Even though you just about talked me out of the whole deal. Hehehe. I didn't have a mounting bracket so I makeshifted one. Just made sure it had some ventilation. Should be fine. We'll find out in a few hours or so when it starts spilling over recordings onto the new drive I guess. ;)

Thanks again.

Kanati

Posted by: Robert S

If it was going to blow up, it already would have. As long as the drives remain mechanically and electronically sound, you're good.