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Posted by: Rodger

Upgrading single drive Sony SVR-2000 unit with larger Maxtor 80 GB A drive because original Quantum 30GB drive was going bad. I went through the Hinsdale how to, made back up, put backup on new drive, tried the new drive in tivo. The backup and drive worked fine, no problem. So per the instructions to expand I pull the drive out of tivo, put it in sec master and run tivomad boot floppy. It recognizes the drive but it shows to be only 10 MB, so I shutdown, reboot using the qunlock boot floppy, run the qunlock utility, and power down. Put the tivomad boot floppy back in and power up. Hangs up on detection of secondary master, won't boot up. The jumpers are correct.

Any ideas?

Posted by: Otto

Perhaps your BIOS sucks somewhat. Set the drive to "NONE" in the BIOS and see what happens.

Posted by: stormsweeper

Besides the point, but: If you have a 13 partition image on your Sony, TivoMad won't help you anyways.

Posted by: Rodger

Otto, do you think it could be a BIOS problem since it detected the hardrive during the backup process and before using qunlock? I'll try what you suggest and post results (gotta take tivo back apart).

Posted by: Hi8

I also had a problem with qunlock, and my sony SVR2000 --

I have a (original 40ig maxtor) drive A and bought a 80gig maxtor off ebay advertised as an install and powerup upgrade, which it did. Everyting is still fine.

However, when I tried to backup my 2 system, using MFS_Tools 1.1 it kept telling me that the drive(s) may be locked. Unlock both drives using qunlock - but it never made any difference, as amatter of fact my BIOS never even returned and ID of the drive (40gig) after I "qunlocked" it. The mother board of the PC that I'm using is kinda-old. perhaps the trouble is the BIOS, not sure. I have built another Drive A for a single drive TiVo incase I need it some day. That is a WD 40gig, and DOES get recognized by the same BIOS PC. ???

Not sure if I have a 13partition sony, not even sure how to find out?? Perhaps someone can tell me. I have upgraded to TurboNet, TiVoWeb.. and all is well.

~Hi8

Posted by: Rodger

Can anybody help me with this? I am going to download the latest mfstools and expand since I suspect I have a 13 partition drive, but I have to get the drive recognized.

Posted by: stormsweeper

My SVR-2000 locks Maxtor drives every time. I'm not sure why your drive is not being recognized, though.

Posted by: Gomer Pyle

You stated that:

"run the qunlock utility, and power down..."

If you truly power down, qunlock is out of effect. You must ONLY use the reset button and do a warm boot. If you do a cold boot it won't work. qunlock worked fine on my Sony, though I use Dylan's boot disk, not TiVoMad.

Posted by: stormsweeper

quote:
Originally posted by Gomer Pyle
You stated that:

"run the qunlock utility, and power down..."

If you truly power down, qunlock is out of effect. You must ONLY use the reset button and do a warm boot. If you do a cold boot it won't work. qunlock worked fine on my Sony, though I use Dylan's boot disk, not TiVoMad.

That's been the exact opposite of my experience. Also "power cycle" == turning off, then back on, not a warm boot.

Posted by: Gomer Pyle

Well, a search of the forums shows that stormsweeper is correct... I would have sworn that the warm boot option was specified when I used qunlock, but that was May 2001, so my memory has apparently failed me (again)... Sorry if it caused any confusion.

Posted by: Finny

Hey Rodger, Did you ever get the Sony SVR 2000 Maxtor Drive working?

I am having the same problem. "qunlock" doesn't seem to work. Mfstools, and my Bios still report the 40gig drive as only 10.

I'm doing this upgrade for my father, what's odd about this is that I have the exact same unit & did the upgrade on my Tivo using the exact same computer with the same Bios & the same Boot CD & I didn't run into any problems at all when I did it back then.

The only difference is that my 30hr SVR 2000 came with only a 30gig harddrive whereas the one for my father came with a 40gig.

If you or anyone has any suggestions to this problem or can point me in the right direction, I would greatly appreciate it. If I come across a solution in the meantime, I will be sure to post it.

Thanks to all.

Posted by: woody

Set the Bios to AUTO DETECT, then just ignore the BIOS screen at startup. The only screen that I found that needs to be correct is the TivoMad screen. This should report the correct size of the HD.

Posted by: Finny

Thanks for the response Woody. But what do I do about trying to test the backup that I made? I wanted to put it on the new 100G drive, but mfstools would not allow me b/c it said that the new drive was smaller (32gig) than the Tivo drive (40gig). I am a little afraid to move forward with the TivoMad without having tested the backup. What do you recommend or do you think this step is not important?

Thanks again.

-Finny

Posted by: Rodger

Finny,

I have not had a chance to break open the tivo and try the expansion again. The unit works fine, just not able to take advantage of the larger capacity, but at least the drive failing issue was resolved. Sorry I don't have any further news.

Posted by: Hi8

Finny;

I think the problem is your BIOS ... I would NOT use AUTO detect. I would if possible turn off detect if possible. or "skip=y" that's what I had to do with mine. I have an older computer that I use to do this stuff... never even put the covers on it!!

once LINUX loads it should still see the drive. I had a similar problem when I tried upgrading my Sony SVR2000 to an 80gig.

Posted by: Finny

Yep, that's me too. (regarding never putting the cover on my computers)
By the way, that did work. Oddly enough, MFS tools v2 seemed to fix the problem. While ver 1.x, which I had from my previous Tivo Upgrade experience, would not recognized the full 100gig of the new drive, for whatever reason, once I tried it using mfstools v2 boot cd, the problem was resoved. Thanks to all who responded. I'm good to go now.

-Finny