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How to see if dsr6000 is single drive or not
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Posted by: rdefino

I will be receiving a dsr6000 in the next couple of days and would like to find out if it a single drive unit or dual without opening the box up. I heard back door can be enabled to find out. I cannot find how to do it without opening the box. I check the faq and no luck. Could someone help me with this

thanks

Posted by: mirtim

Check out this thread for how to (probably) tell by serial number. http://www.avsforum.com/ubbtivo/Forum5/HTML/000004.html

OR look in through the slots you should be able to see if there is a second drive.

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Posted by: Scott Stevens

If you're looking at the face of the unit, there are a row of vents along the bottome left edge. Take a flashlight and look up through those vents. You should see the metal drive bracket, and if it is a 2 drive unit you will see the side of the drive on top of that.

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Posted by: oosik77

Actually just look for screws in the holes in that bracket. No screws no B drive.

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Posted by: hinsdale

You realize that with MFS Tools you can upgrade the unit whether or not it is a two drive unit right? A single drive unit will give you the potential of a slightly larger (8-10hrs or so) maximum upgrade but both are easily upgraded. Just wanted to make sure.. wasnt sure why you wanted to peek to find out first.

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Posted by: dswallow

When you open your unit, try to lift the back of the cover up vertically, essentially "sliding" the warranty sticker off the unit, instead of peeling the sticker yourself specifically. The glue is usually pretty poor and it will come off without damaging the sticker, leaving it looking completely untouched when you put it back together. Your mileage may vary, but if it works out, then you have little to worry about, and in the worst case, it's no worse than just peeling the sticker off yourself.

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Posted by: GBL

Without opening the box, enable backdoors and look at the kernel log after a bootup - it will tell you how many disks it found.

EDIT: Here's a good intro to backdoor codes: http://www.avsforum.com/ubbtivo/Forum9/HTML/000174.html
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Posted by: bdc

So I look at the logs and only see references to hda and the partitions on hda (hda1,hda2,hda3, etc). No references to hdb or anything else. Does this mean I have a single drive DSR6000?

Posted by: GBL

Yes, if you looked at the bootup section in the kernel log (identifed by the Jan 1 00:00:00 date/time stamp).

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Posted by: bdc

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Originally posted by GBL:
Yes, if you looked at the bootup section in the kernel log (identifed by the Jan 1 00:00:00 date/time stamp).

Yep that is where I looked, only hda. Guess with Tiger's tool it is not as important as it once was to have only one drive in a combo unit. But it will make the back up and adding a drive a little easier.

By the way I got this unit from Amazon in late Jan of 2001.