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Help Upgrading My Directivo
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Posted by: SCHAFERM

I HAVE A directivo with one stock drive and want to put in 2 80 gb drives and tried to use the secound command to upgrade from one drive to 2 larger drives and this did not work

here is the command i used

mfsbackup -Tao - /dev/hdc | mfsrestore -s 128 -xzpi - dev/hda /dev/hdb

i got this command from this doc

Command to copy/expand from single drive to new single larger A drive:
(Assumes existing TiVo A drive as Secondary Master and new larger upgrade A drive as Primary Master)

mfsbackup -Tao - /dev/hdc | mfsrestore -xzpi - /dev/hda

OR

Command to copy/expand from single drive to new larger A drive and new B drive:
(Assumes existing TiVo A drive as Secondary Master and new larger upgrade A drive as Primary Master and new B drive as Primary Slave)

mfsbackup -Tao - /dev/hdc | mfsrestore -s 128 -xzpi - /dev/hda /dev/hdb

This will generally take from 1-4 hours depending upon drive size, ATA, CPU speed etc. In some circumstances this can take as long as 8 hours or more. Mfs Tools will provide progress readouts and results when completed (if screen goes blank before finishing simply hit the shift key to restore screen). Make sure when the command is finished that no errors were reported. When complete you can press Ctrl-Alt-Del and wait for the 'No more processes ... ' message or the system starts to reboot, then power down. You are now ready to install your drives in your TiVo and can skip to Step 11.

Note for those who are copying to non-Quantum A drives: If you have copied an image running TiVo software version 2.0 or below (does not apply to 2.0.1 or above) to a non-Quantum A drive you will need to now run TiVoMad’s edit_bootparms program at the end of Step 8 before continuing.

Posted by: Bill Reeves

What went wrong?

I used the same command when I upgraded my DirecTiVo last night. Except I had my drives hooked up differently, so the actual command I ran was:

mfsbackup -Tao - /dev/hdb | mfsrestore -s 128 -xzpi - dev/hdc /dev/hdd

In my case, the original TiVo 40GB Quantum drive was attached on the, uh, primary IDE bus as the "slave" and the two new 120GB drives were attached to the secondary bus, one as the "master", the other as the "slave". I had never dealt with IDE before (the Macs I usually work with use SCSI) so I made some guesses as to which was the "master" (the one attached to the end of the cable) and which was the "slave" (the one in the middle) but it worked out OK.

In any case, what I saw when I ran that command was something along the lines of "35933 MB uncompressed backup" and then a running counter of how many MB were being backed up and restored. The whole process took about 1 hr 20 minutes, then it displayed the expected new hours and gave me the # prompt.

What did you see?