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Single 160GB A drive report: ok so far
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Posted by: Randy G

I bought my first TiVo, a Philips HD212, about a week ago, along with a Maxtor 160GB drive, intending to buy another drive if the initial upgrade went ok. *Then* I read that there might be problems with a drive that size. Oh well--since I had already bought the drive, I decided to go ahead and try it. Since we've just started with the TiVo, we don't have much to lose at this point.

So far, no problems. I waited until the software was upgraded to 2.5.1, deleted all recordings, and used a TiVoMad floppy to do the drive expansion. The system information screen shows 163 hours, 58 minutes capacity. Whether this is because the upgrade script did the right thing, or it's just the theoretical maximum, I guess we'll see in a couple of days. For now it works fine.

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-Randy

Posted by: stevel

It probably won't work ok for long... http://www.avsforum.com/ubbtivo/Forum6/HTML/008720.html

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Steve (Sony SVR-2000, 103+ hours, TiVoNET, Dish Network)
(Philips DSR6000 (pending installation))

Posted by: bsnelson

I disagree - this is about what the capacity should be if the 128GiB/137GB limitation was properly implemented.

Set the default quality to best and fill that sucker up! Let us know if it's a go...

Brad

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Philips DSR6000R (165 hours), Philips DSR6000R (67 hours), Philips DSR6000R (35 hours),
Philips HDR112 (195 hours), Philips HDR112 (45 hours)

Posted by: Randy G

*If* it doesn't work: seems like the way to fix this would be just to tweak the partition table with a hex editor, to make sure that the last partition isn't too large. This should be easy. Since I'm just reviving my decrepit Linux system after not having used it for a couple of years (and its original SCSI drive failed :-P) I don't have all the tools handy just at the moment, but really, this is not rocket science.

Since this is a PowerPC system, is the partition table byte-swapped? I wrote a device driver for LinuxPPC a couple of years ago, just trying to revive all those buried memories....

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-Randy

Posted by: ADent

If the other thread Tiger implied that if the original machine did not recognize more than 128GiB than all should be OK.

So fill it up and let us know.