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Is there a disk error detector/repair utility on mfs tools
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Posted by: Erik@juniorhawk

Welll after spending the better part of an upgrading the drive on my friends 30 hr Sony TiVo - it seems that there is still a probelem. The menus refuse to displa correctly and it freeezes.

Esentially I want to know if I hook the drive back up to my pc, and boot to mfs tools linux again, is there a command I can run (using the modifier - y) to make sure that it corrects any errors it finds. This utility would be like checkdisk or scandisk or something - if one compared it to Windows.

Does a utility like that exist in mfstoools?

Thanks,
Erik

Posted by: weaknees

If you really want to check the drive completely (and it sounds like you need to) just use the manufacturer's software to check it in DOS or Windows. That's the best check - manufacturers just haven't written these diagnostics utilities in Linux yet.

Michael

Posted by: Almuliman

Doesn't booting under Windows write a signature to the TiVo drive?

If this is the only way to diagnose a drive (which I also have to do :-( ) and the signature gets written to the drive, how does one get rid of the signature to be able to use the drive in a TiVo again?

Thanks.

Posted by: litzdog911

It's only a problem if you boot into Windows XP or Windows 2000 with your Tivo drive connected in the computer. Nothing to worry about if you use a DOS boot disk, then run the drive manufacturer's DOS-based test utilities.

To play it safe I just disconnect my Windows XP drive when I'm doing Tivo stuff.

Posted by: Almuliman

Ah, yes. Of course. Duh.

Lived in the Windows-only worrld for a little too long...

Thanks :-)

Posted by: Robert S

I hate to say it but it's unlikely that the problem has been transferred from the old drive to the new.

The problem is either that something else is wrong that just happens to look like a failing disk or the new disk is also faulty.

Posted by: Erik@juniorhawk

can someone please tell me the utility in mfstools that is used to check the hard drive for errors.

Posted by: dropper

quote:
Originally posted by Erik@juniorhawk
can someone please tell me the utility in mfstools that is used to check the hard drive for errors.

I know you may be a bit frustrated, but they did answer your question.

You need to just check the drive maker's web site to see if they have a utility to diagnosis their drives. You can then create a DOS boot disk (bootdisk.com) with the utility on it to check the drive.

Keith