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Help w/ 2nd Drive
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Posted by: TonyRoma

Wanted to send you a cry for help. I just went thru the BlessTivo process and couldn't believe how fast and easy things "appeared" to be going. I'm trying to add a 120 GIG 5400 RPM Maxtor to my system and when the BlessTivo process completed it said the drive was sucessfully blessed and had 114 GIG available.

Now the problem, my TIVO doesn't want to marry (or recognize) the drive. The system info remains at 35 hours and I tried running the logdisk utility and rec'd a message something like "file not found".

Any thoughts would be appreciated. Also, I changed the setting on my master drive from cable select to master hoping that would make a difference and it didn't obviously.

Posted by: SuperRob

Is this for a Series|2 unit? Did you Bless the drive without Byteswapping? That would do it ...

Posted by: TonyRoma

I'm new to this so I'll probably ask some stupid questions. How do I know if this is a series 2 unit? Also, as far as byte swapping goes I was never prompted for anything like that. I just typed BlessTiVo /dev/hdd at the prompt.

Posted by: TonyRoma

Originally I used Dylan's boot disk to run Blesstivo. I just reran the process using Kaz's Boot CD and am still having no luck. I'm trying to upgrade a Hughes GXCEBOT (DTV/TIVO) with a Maxtor 120gb ATA133 5400 rpm.

The Blesstivo process runs and completes leaving 114gb of usable space. However, my TIVO unit will not marry the slave drive. I also went out and got a ATA66 IDE cable thinking that would solve the problem (it didn't obviously).

Any other ideas?

Posted by: Donbadabon

I am having the same problem with my DSR6000. I am trying to add a Maxtor 120 gig drive as my B drive, and keep the existing 40 gig A drive.

I booted via the boot CD, performed a backup of my TiVo A drive, and then ran BlessTiVo on my new B drive. It reported 114 gig.

I then hooked them into my TiVo, it booted, and when I go to the System Info, it still says 35 hours.

All my jumpers are right, the original 40 gig is Master,and at the end of the cable, and my new 120 gig is slave, using the middle connector.

Posted by: weaknees

When you boot with the boot CD and have your Blessed drive attached, do you see all of the partitions scroll through the screen? On very rare occasions, we have had drives that purport to be blessed fail to report the partitions.

Also, at the risk of stating the obvious: Have you tried changing IDE cables? Have you checked (and double-checked) to be sure that the cables (ide and power) are securely fastened? Can you hear the B drive spinning? If you have backed up the drive, have you tried flipping the drives (blessing your smaller drive and imaging the larger drive and using dtivomad)?

Michael
www.weaknees.com

Posted by: Donbadabon

quote:
When you boot with the boot CD and have your Blessed drive attached, do you see all of the partitions scroll through the screen?

It says it has 3 Blocks in Map. Then it has 'mac' with some data, 'hdb1' with some data, 'hdb2' with data, and 'hdb3' with nothing after it.

quote:
Have you tried changing IDE cables? Have you checked (and double-checked) to be sure that the cables (ide and power) are securely fastened?

Yes.

quote:
Can you hear the B drive spinning?

I can feel it spinning up when the TiVo starts.

Posted by: Donbadabon

Got it working! Adding a 120 Gig drive to a DSR6000 with a single 40 Gig drive shows a total of 139 hours.

Tony, the only thing I did differently was to re-copy the backup image I made of the A drive back onto the A drive.

Here is a summary of what I did (using Hinsdale How-to):

Put my Original Tivo A drive as my secondary master (hdc) and my new 120 gig as my primary slave (hdb).

Booted from CD, and mounted my C drive.
mkdir /mnt/dos
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/dos

Performed the backup of the original TiVo 40 gig drive (my CD has mfstool 1.0. I downloaded 1.1 and put it on my C drive, so I used the floppy commands):
/mnt/dos/mfstool backup -6 -s -o /mnt/dos/tivo.bak /dev/hdc

unmounted the drives:
umount -f -a -r

rebooted the computer.

Restored the backup to the original TiVo 40 gig drive:
mkdir /mnt/dos
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/dos
/mnt/dos/mfstool restore -zi /mnt/dos/tivo.bak /dev/hdc

unmounted the drives:
umount -f -a -r

rebooted the computer.

Blessed the new 120 gig drive:
BlessTiVo /dev/hdb

That was it. Now, after 7 hours of fighting with this, I am going to bed.

Good luck!

Posted by: dmbong

quote:
Originally posted by Donbadabon
Got it working! Adding a 120 Gig drive to a DSR6000 with a single 40 Gig drive shows a total of 139 hours.

Good job man!

-Brian