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Problem with AT&Tivo Upgrade
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Posted by: JeffKiel

I have an original AT&Tivo. When I got it 3 months ago (factory replacement for my dead Tivo), I purchased a new 120 GB WD drive, did a backup|restore, and the new drive was purring along no problem. Then, started to run out of space (kid's shows seem to take up a lot :) ), so I decided to add another 120GB drive. This is the Maxtor 120 GB from my original Tivo, so I did a complete check to make sure it was in working order. Then, I did pdisk on my original drive to make sure I did the swap partition when I did the upgrade, and it was 127 MB. So, I did an mfsadd and it returned saying I had ~240GB of space. Place the drives back in the Tivo, stuck on "Welcome. Powering up...". Double checked the jumpers, looked like I didn't do the slave quite right, same result. Then, reversed the cable as I had the MB side in the master and the master in the MB, still no joy. I placed the original disk back in and it boots just fine. I tried just putting the original expansion disk in (WD 120GB) to see if maybe the add didn't do anything, and it sticks on "Welcome...".

Any ideas?

Posted by: Johnstone

You might want to check the post "sd-dvr40; added 120gb 2nd; hangs on powering up" by MegaSnapper located elsewhere in this forum.

Posted by: JeffKiel

Just checked it, I have tried the cable both directions and still no joy.

Posted by: JeffKiel

I also tried another IDE cable, still no joy. I can access them both from my PC (with the jumpers set as in the tivo) on my primary (/dev/hda, /dev/hdb) and the partition tables look ok from pdisk.

Posted by: JeffKiel

Well, the end of the story is I redid the upgrade from my original drive to my 2 new drives and everything is working just fine. My guess is the add of the 2nd drive didn't really work (even though it seemed like it had) so I had to start over from scratch. Lost a few programs, but oh well.