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SCSI Upgrade procedure?
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Posted by: Agent_C

Is there an established procedure for upgrading a Tivo for people who have SCSI drives? I'm running Windows 2000 (sp3) with a SCSI C: drive, NTFS formatted - Driven by an Adaptec 19160 controller card.

It looks as though I'll need to at least create a FAT partition.

Anyone been down this road before with any success?

Thanks!

A_C

Posted by: Hey_Hey

I just upgraded my DirecTivo yesterday using a SCSI drive in my computer to hold the backup.

I was scared off by the MFSTools 2.0 problems, so I used the 1.x Hinsdale instructions. Since I have a DirecTivo I used the nuboot6.iso file to make a boot CD. When booting with this CD it automatically loaded drivers for my Adaptec 2940UW card.

I'm not sure if the other Boot CD's/Floppys will automatically load the SCSI drivers. I would suggest just figuring out what Boot CD/Floppy you want to use, and then boot with it and see if your SCSI drive shows up.

The SCSI drives will show up as /dev/sdXY, where X is a, b, c, etc. in order of the SCSI target ID's and Y is the partition number on the drive. Primary partitions are 1, 2, 3. Extended partitions start at 4. If you only have one SCSI disk, then it would be /dev/sda. You could then issue the linux command "cfdisk /dev/sda" to see the partition layout.

If you can't find your SCSI drive(s) after booting, you will need to ask for helping in finding a driver. (My knowledge of Linux runs out here.....)

But assuming you can get boot process to load a driver for your SCSI card, then it is pretty simple to follow hinsdale's instructions with the following modifications.