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adding a 2nd drive to my dtivo... is this right?
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Posted by: Solosmooth

Hello folks,

I have a Samsung SIR- S4120R and I purchased a Twinbreeze kit from weaknees.com
I’m looking to add a 2nd 120g wd hd to my tivo series 2.

Now before I do that, I wanna make a backup of my tivo image.
I would like to place the backup image on my new drive then transfer it onto my windows drive. Don't wanna have my windows xp drive involved in this procedure cause I don't wanna mess up my OS.
I’m following a tutorial from http://tivo.upgrade-instructions.com/step1.php

I will have the following drives installed in my pc

New 120g drive installed as Primary Slave

Original Tivo drive installed as Secondary Master

I will use mfstools floppy disk instead of the cd. Makes things easier for me.

From my understanding, these are the commands I need to make a backup..

mount /dev/hda1 /mnt

mfsbackup -f 9999 -9so /mnt/backup.bak /dev/hdc

Now its my understanding that these commands will backup my tivo drive and place a temporary image on my new 120g drive.

Will I need to umount –f –a –r

Or can I just CTRL – AlT –DEL

Then I can copy the image from my new drive onto my windows hd and then I can

mfsadd -x /dev/hdX /dev/hdb

so it can then make my new 120g drive as drive B in my tivo.

SO my A drive is now Master and my B drive will be slave.
Is this correct or am I missing something?
I wanna make sure I do this 100% correct.

Posted by: Robert S

Sounds good to me. Just remember to check that the TiVo drive is recognised as the correct size when Linux boots. (dmesg | more if you miss it).

Posted by: Solosmooth

So I'll need to type "dmesg |" ?

I read it was shift & pageup but that didn't seem to work for me.

Thanks so much for the reply!!
I'm learning quite a bit the past few days.

I'm still abit confused by this command

this is the default command

mfsadd -x /dev/hdX /dev/hdY

now to add my 2nd hd and be able to be recognized as drive B in my tivo
Which is the correct command I will need to input?

mfsadd -x /dev/hdc /dev/hdb

c - being original tivo drive (source) SEC MASTER
b - being new 120g drive (destination) PRIMARY SLAVE

or will it be this

mfsadd -x /dev/hdb

Posted by: Solosmooth

A HA!! Did a search and found it.

With my current configuration the command will be
mfsadd -x /dev/hdc /dev/hdb

c - being original tivo drive (source) SEC MASTER
b - being new 120g drive (destination) PRIMARY SLAVE

Thanks Robert, you've helped alot of people.
Thank u sir.