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Blessed Maxtor Drive Failure
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Posted by: boone

I have a 30 hr Phillips Tivo with a blessed 30 gig Maxtor slave. Last night the Maxtor drive failed after being in the unit for almost a year. When I pulled the drive and try to look at it in my pc the pc will not see and drive and I can hear the head crashing. I have applied for a RMA drive from Maxtor which should arrive on Friday. My question is this what are my options? Can I bless the new drive and readd it since it is the same make and size? I also have another unit that I can clone but that is a major effort since I will have to clone both the drive master and slave and the diskpro clone takes roughly 6 hours.. Any help would be great..

Thanks..

Posted by: sjf

To replace the B drive, you must restore the A drive from your single-drive backup (you have one, right?). Then bless and add the new replacement B drive.

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Posted by: AZJimbo

Yes in my experience you have to restore the all important backup.

If there are other ways I would love to hear them because I support a number of other users because my name an email address are posted on the PVRHack site.

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Posted by: boone

Of course I did not save a backup http://www.avsforum.com/ubb/frown.gif .
I will have to reclone from my good unithttp://www.avsforum.com/ubb/frown.gif Looks like I will have a long weekend...

Thanks..

Posted by: Russ Arcuri

You should only restore from your other TiVo if it's the same brand (only restore Sony to Sony, or Philips to Philips) AND they both shipped with the same software version from the factory. For example, if your hacked unit is a Philips that shipped with 1.3, and your other unit is a Philips that shipped with 1.2, DO NOT restore the 1.2 image to the hacked box.

I think you'll be okay restoring 2.0.1 from one to the other, regardless of which version they shipped with. People with more experience on this can comment if my assumption is wrong.

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Posted by: boone

My other unit is an identical Phillips except both drives were Quantum. I have actually done this before since the good one was orignially a 14 hr unit. At that time I only had to clone 1 drive. I was just not looking forward to having to take apart the good unit tie up two pc's and have my pc's and tivo down for a day. Shrug... I was hoping for a easy solution. The only question I have is has any one tried to add a reblessed drive to a married Tivo. I know that the shows on the replacement would be gone and the index would be off? I will probably give that a shot anyway since I have nothing to loose and I already plan on reimaging from my good unit anyway.

Posted by: Alexander

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Originally posted by boone:
The only question I have is has any one tried to add a reblessed drive to a married Tivo. I know that the shows on the replacement would be gone and the index would be off? I will probably give that a shot anyway since I have nothing to loose and I already plan on reimaging from my good unit anyway.

It won't work. I haven't actually tried it, but from what I know about the way TiVo uses drives, there's no way it can work. (TiVo has to do some "formatting" of its own -- simply blessing the drive just lets TiVo recognize it as valid. Further, this formatting -- mfsadd -- can only be done once.) In fact, I don't think it'll even boot without the original second drive attached.

BTW, I think the version business goes like this -- don't put a version of the software on a TiVo that's earlier than what it originally shipped with. i.e. It's okay to put a 1.3 image from ANY (same brand) TiVo onto a TiVo that shipped with 1.2. But not ok to put a 1.2 image into a TiVo that shipped with 1.3. If you're pulling from a production TiVo, there should be no problem.

Alex