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HELP! DSR6000 won't see new WD60 Gig
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Posted by: Seawolf

Please help. I have been searching this forum for hours trying to find some glimmer of hope and a solution.

I have a Philips DSR6000 DirecTiVo that came with the single 40 G Quantum drive.

I have backed it up and then Blessed a brand new WD 60 G as the slave with NO SUCCESS. Everything seems to work fine, the BlessTiVo reports it as 55 G and all seems well. Put it in the DSR6000 and NOTHING. It boots up but only reports the space as "Variable up to 35 Hours"

Troubleshooting so far---

I have checked the Jumpers dozens of times and even put the drives back into my PC to confirm they show up as jumpered. The Jumpers are CORRECT.

I have moved the master and slave drives to each end of the IDE Cable so I know the cable works at both connectors.

I have repeatedly shut down the device and unplugged/replugged every connector.

I am at a complete and total stand still. I read how easy this upgrade is suppose to be but I am finding it to be one of the biggest pains in the ass I have ever attempted.

More info - I am attempting this with another coworker who is upgrading his at the same time and he is getting the exact same results (or lack there of)

Please HELP!

TIA

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Seawolf
"Everything was fine til I pushed that button......"

UPDATE -

Tried new IDE Cable = NO LUCK

Tried putting A Drive at far part (away from fan) of rail set to Cable Select and new B Drive close to fan set to Slave = NO LUCK

Help me Obi Wan Kanobi, You're my only hope

-S

[This message has been edited by Seawolf (edited 12-17-2001).]

Posted by: DennisK

^ -- seawolf, any news?

Posted by: Seawolf

Sorry for the delay. The problem has been resolved.

When I booted the linux cd, I selected "noswap" which is good for backups, but bad for modifying partition tables. The tivo runs on a powerpc processor, which has the opposite endian-ness of the Intel processors. The "noswap" disabled byte-swapping which makes backups faster. However, in order to properly bless a drive, you have to boot with byte swapping enabled. Re-Blessing the B drive after this resulted in proper recognition of the drive by TiVo

"Variable up to 86 Hours" and loving it :D