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Two Questions before I add a new hard drive.
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Posted by: spot1x

I have a series 2 TiVo 60hr TCD140060 Standalone Single 60GB A drive and I bought a new Western Digital 120 Gig Drive. I want both the 60GB and 120 GB in the tivo when finished. I have read over the hinsdale-how-to and understand everything except when I get to the upgrade configurations. Since I will be right on the cusp of the 180 Gig limit for the larger swap files do I need to do option 3 instead of option 1?

If I have to do option 3 which is the correct command to run?

quote:
Command to copy/expand from single drive to new single larger A drive:
(Assumes existing TiVo A drive as Secondary Master and new larger upgrade A drive as Primary Master)

mfsbackup -Tao - /dev/hdc | mfsrestore -s 127 -xzpi - /dev/hda

OR

Command to copy/expand from single drive to new larger A drive and new B drive:
(Assumes existing TiVo A drive as Secondary Master and new larger upgrade A drive as Primary Master and new B drive as Primary Slave)

mfsbackup -Tao - /dev/hdc | mfsrestore -s 127 -xzpi - /dev/hda /dev/hdb

I am assuming that it will be the second one since the first is for a single drive upgrade only. But is the second the right command for adding in a new hard drive? Or do you use that only if you are adding in two new drives. If that is the case what is the command I would use to make the swap file larger and just simply slave in the new hard drive to the old 60GB?

My second question is this. My computer has 2 120 GB SATA drives in raid 0 running windows XP. If I were to just set the boot priority to a 6GB Hard Drive formatted with Dos 6.22 and keep the 120’s installed would that mess up the upgrade? I just don’t want to mess with my raid and screw it up.

Thanks

Scott

Posted by: Robert S

60+120 is known to be OK with 64Mb of swap.

You can't do the first option because that copies to two drives. You have to do the copy and then mfsadd the B drive (which was formerly your A drive).

You can't permanently increase swap on the original A drive, because all the space on that drive is already allocated.

Disconnect the Windows XP drives. Really Bad Things will happen if WinXP boots with your TiVo drive attached. The scratch drive doesn't have to have DOS on it, just a FAT partition. You can format it in WinXP's Drive Manager. You're not booting from this drive, of course, you're booting to Linux from the MFS Tools CD.

Posted by: spot1x

Thanks for the responce. Ill get started on the upgrade right now.

Posted by: spot1x

The upgrade worked great! Thanks again for answering my questions.