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15GB to 160GB TiVo upgrade fails to boot
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Posted by: buh

I have a stock 14H TiVo that i'm trying to upgrade using a 160GB Maxtor.

I wanting to make a simple copy from my original disk to my new 160GB disk and shelve the 15gb disk. I only want a single drive system for now and will add another 160GB disk once the prices go down. However, the simple copy does not seem to work.

Here's what I did:

I downloaded Dylan's 3.2 bootdisk and copied it to a floppy, connected my original 15GB disk to /dev/hdd and my new Maxtor onto /dev/hdc. I powered up my PC and after the bootfloppy booted I stopped the script and ran:

dd if=/dev/hdd of=/dev/hdc bs=1k

It ran for a couple hours and then finished. I jumpered the Maxtor back to slave and then placed the new 160GB disk back into the TiVo. I would not boot.

I pulled the drive back out of the TiVo and tried qunlock on the maxtor and that made no difference either.

So I put my original 15GB disk back in the TiVo and it starts fine.

What am I missing? ;-)

What's odd is the TiVo seems to not even try to boot the disk. Once I power on the TiVo the disk does its spin up and quick seek check but nothing more. I don't hear it try to start the OS or anything. The drive sounds the same as if it were being powered up without an IDE cable attached.

My apologies if this has been posted before - I couldn't find anything specifically to my problem.

Posted by: buh

Awww, JEEEEZ... I feel like an idiot.

I tried jumpering the new Maxtor 160GB as master and the system booted.

I guess if the original drive had a jumper layout diagram I would have known from the start that it was supposed to be a master. I thought TiVo did some weirdness that required the drive to be a slave instead of master.

[shame shame]

Posted by: stevel

The jumper settings are stenciled on the drive's circuit board. Not where I thought to look for them...