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HELP! Maxtor backup will not work as A drive
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Posted by: rogueheus

After fallowing the instructions on backing up the A drive, I did Dylans’ fix for the non Quantum A drive. I poped it in my TiVo and it just sits there after hitting the hard drive for a few seconds. Any Clue as to why it isn’t working?
HELP!

Posted by: DanT

Did you have the Maxtor connected to the primary IDE channel as Master? If so, byte-swapping was not enabled, and your copy would be worthless. Make sure it's not connected as primary master, and repeat the copy and non-Quantum fix.

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Dan T.
RKBA!

Posted by: rogueheus

I had it setup as the slave on the drive and connected it to the slave on the secondary IDE cable, the TiVo Quantum being connected to master IDE & jumpered as master. Is this right? Any other possibilities?

Thanks!

Posted by: pschum

I'm a little confused as to what you did. You used Dylan's disk to make a backup onto your Maxtor? From the sounds of things your backup was probably OK. You MUST add "runideturbo=false" to the boot string on the Maxtor drive as a replacement "A" drive or it will refuse to boot. This is easy if you have 'backdoor' access (via the "factory" password -- see the Hack FAQ) and not so easy otherwise...

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Paul Schumann
"Share and Enjoy"

Posted by: jack

First thing is to re-boot with the dylan's disk and make sure that
you can mount /dev/hda4 and /dev/hda7. They are ext2 partitions
and should be mountable.

To get a non-quantum drive booting, you have to bypass the
runideturbo module loading. You can do that through the
PROM or by adding lines to the /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit file.
If you do the latter... you have to do it when the drive is
accessed via Dylan's boot disk or another copy of linux
that knows that the drive is byte swapped.

jack

Posted by: rogueheus

Your correct I used Dylans' disk to set the runideturbo=false. Is there a way to check to see if I did it correctly? I think I did anyway.

-Roguehues

Posted by: rogueheus

quote:
Originally posted by jack:
First thing is to re-boot with the dylan's disk and make sure that
you can mount /dev/hda4 and /dev/hda7. They are ext2 partitions
and should be mountable.

To get a non-quantum drive booting, you have to bypass the
runideturbo module loading. You can do that through the
PROM or by adding lines to the /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit file.
If you do the latter... you have to do it when the drive is
accessed via Dylan's boot disk or another copy of linux
that knows that the drive is byte swapped.

jack

When I connected it back up (Maxtor back up set as slave on drive & secondary slave on IDE cable) and type in mount /dev/hda4 I get:
"mount: can't find /dev/hda4 in ect/fstab or /etc/mtab"
this is a foreign language to me!

Rogueheus

Posted by: rogueheus

I think I need to read a linux for dummies book!! After booting with Dylan's disk, and using the "mount /dev/hdX4 /mnt" and Joe editor, where is the proper place to see the runideturbo=false command? Should it show up under "!/bin/bash" after the # sign? This is what I see currently.

-Rogueheus

Posted by: Tiger

It should not be after a #.. I hope thats not what dylan is setting.. The format should be one of:

runideturbo=false
export runideturbo=false
runideturbo=false export runideturbo

All thee should work. with that as the only thing on the line (Any line after the first #! line)

Posted by: DanT

One thing I noticed in your example is that you're using /dev/hda4. Since it's sitting as slave on the secondary IDE channel, it should be /dev/hdd4 ('d' instead of 'a').

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Dan T.
RKBA!

Posted by: Lawrence

Where are the guidelines on how to make a non-Quantum your A drive? Is there a readme file on Dylan's bootdisk? Also, is it rather involved? I have no linux experience.

Posted by: Mr. Belboz

quote:
Originally posted by Lawrence:
Where are the guidelines on how to make a non-Quantum your A drive? Is there a readme file on Dylan's bootdisk? Also, is it rather involved? I have no linux experience.

The FAQ has a section devoted to how to do it with the bootdisk or the prom menu.

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Belboz
belboz@cinci.rr.com

Posted by: rogueheus

I think that is my problem. I'll loose the # sign and try again.

Thanks!
You all ROCK!

-Rogueheus