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Posted by: pbrinkma

I just completed my very first Tivo upgrade, but there's a minor problem. I replaced a 14gb A drive with a 40gb A drive. I was expecting ~14hrs best quality, ~48hrs basic, but I now have 9hrs best and 32hrs basic (which is still an improvement over 4 best/14 basic).

Did I miscalculate? If this is the expected outcome, I don't want to worry myself sick fighting for a few more recording hours that I'm not really supposed to have.

Did I do the TivoMad part wrong? One problem might be disk BIOS settings were incorrect? Unlike the (REALLY AWESOME!) howto directions said, the mad/setup.sh script did NOT give me an estimate of the size of the expanded partition. It just said it was successful, so I assumed it got all 40 gb.

Any suggestions? Do I just leave it alone, or try to enter the disk BIOS settings manually? Or ....?

thanks!

-Paul

Posted by: c3

It's a corner case problem that has been reported before: 2.5.1, TiVoMad, single 40GB drive.

Posted by: Otto

It sounds to me like your PC didn't recognize the whole drive, and so Tivomad only saw 30 gig of it.

I'd try again and see what the PC thinks the size of the drive is.

Posted by: c3

http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-v...&threadid=25152

Posted by: pbrinkma

I see your previous posts were from November. I did the exact same thing - version 2.5.1, 14gb->40gb upgrade single disk. Did you ever figure out what the problem was? From your results, it looks like I could get the correct amount of space by adding an additional drive?

strange...

-Paul

Posted by: c3

No, I haven't found out what the problem is. Yes, you should get full capacity if you add something else. I don't know what would happen if you expand it with 2.0.1 image and let TiVo upgrade it to 2.5.1.

Posted by: c3

See my update here:

http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-v...&threadid=25152

Posted by: pbrinkma

thanks for the update! Too bad that doesn't work
:(