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GSOD after upgrade
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Posted by: eebert

sigh

I carefully read all the instructions, cross checked what I was about to do with both the hinsdale and the weeknees instructions, triple checked all the hardware connections and settings, was extra careful about the white ribbon on my series 2 box, did the deed, and got a GSOD.

I intended to add a 120GB drive to my brand new SD-DVR40. I started with the hinsdale instructions and downloaded the MFSTools iso image. I hooked my original 40GB drive and the new drive into my PC (I unhooked my existing 2 drives as that was easier than chaining the Tivo drives into my already crowded box) and booted up the MFSTools CD. The report on my screen showed the two drives in the expected locations (old drive on hda and new drive on hdb) and reported the full capacity for each. I then ran the mfsadd command to add the new drive. It reported that I had successfully increased my storage capacity. I installed the drives into the twinbreeze frame, checked that everything was connected together, and fired it up. I got the welcome screen, "just a few more seconds" message, then green screen.

I let this run for several hours before shutting off the tivo, pulling the bracket and drives out, and checking them on my PC. I took the whole assembly over to the PC and plugged the IDE cable directly into my PC motherboard; I was checking to see if the maybe the IDE cable or the power cable was bad, or if maybe I'd plugged the drives in wrong way around. I booted up the MFSTools CD, and it again reported the two drives as I expected to see them. Checked the jumper and all the connections again, put it back in the tivo, fired it up, GSOD. This time I let it run for 24 hours.

I don't think it's going to work.

I've prowled around on this forum but I haven't read anything that gives me much hope for recovery. I don't have a backup (I was making such a simple change it couldn't possibly go wrong). I have no idea what I might have done wrong. I think a bad drive is very unlikely. The IDE cable is brand new but I suppose it could be a problem. I've seen some mention of different cable types but I don't know enough about IDE cables to know if I should go shopping again. If any one out there in tivo-land have any advice on what to try short of re-imaging the disk I'd appreciate it very much. But if I need a new image I'd also appreciate advice on procuring one.

Thanks

Posted by: Robert S

Part of the reason for making the backup is to enable you to recover from a disk failure later on.

Try making a backup now. If you can restore that to just one drive, that may enable the GSOD to complete.

Posted by: eebert

Thanks for the reply.

Can I still get a valid backup from my original drive? If I can, and restore that to one drive, how is that different from simply removing the new 120GB from the Tivo? Does the backup/restore reset some factory defaults?

Is there a way to "mfssubtract" my 120GB drive and then see if Tivo will start up with just my original drive?

Posted by: Robert S

A compressed backup only includes data from the original A drive. You have to backup both drives, of course, not just the A drive.

It's worth a punt.