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Anyone wanna test for me?
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Posted by: Dylan

I wrote a little program that will add the known useful env variables to the boot sector. It will do the following:

Enable BASH shell on DSS port
Disable BASH shell on DSS port
Set pause buffer to 30 minutes
Set pause buffer to 1 hour
Set pause buffer to 2 hours (NOT RECOMMENDED!)
Enable "Backdoors"
Disable "Backdoors"
Activate uptime display
Deactivate uptime display

It will also allow manual editing of the boot parameters and backup/restore the parameters to floppy.

I'm planning to put this program on a new version of the bootdisk. I've tested it with regular files as well as "real" virtual drives in VMWare. I've visually confirmed the results and it's reading/writing what I expect. But both of my TiVo's are in use and buried in my entertainment centers. I could get them out and take them apart again but I'm feeling lazy tonight and I'm going to be busy the next few days.

Soooo..... if someone already has their TiVo A drive hooked up to a PC and would be willing to test this program I'd be much obliged. I'd suggest that you write down the vars currently in your boot sector and have access to the prom menu to input them again in case my program doesn't work like I expect. But the program is fairly user friendly and let's you see what it thinks your boot parameters are before writing them out. And it will backup/restore (though that needs to be tested on a real TiVo drive also).

You can email me at dylan@mailzone.com . Thanks.

-Dylan

Posted by: Dylan

Looks like I missed a few... runideturbo and the one for disabling the overshoot correction. I'll add these. Any others I've missed?

-Dylan

Posted by: adrianog

I'll test it for you no problem, just send me an email at agrassi@excite.com, with the boot disk image.
Regards,

Dri