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Posted by: immature

Are there going to be any plans available to upgrade tivos with the new 200 gig drives any time in the future?

Posted by: Robert S

Wow! Tough question! The answer has to be 'yes' at some time in the future their will be a plan available to upgrade TiVoes to use bigger drives. There's no sign of any such plan at the moment, though.

Posted by: Rob Helmerichs

But TiVo can only read the first ~138 of a drive, so it wouldn't accomplish anything...

Posted by: Robert S

I assume he meant change the kernel to utilise the larger drives. Given that the kernel is GPL, this wouldn't seem too much of a problem. Opinion seemed divided on whether the hardware would support them (probably yes) and, of course it's possible that MyWorld has similar restrictions.

Posted by: immature

Yeah, I meant the software end of it, because I know Microsoft made software changes to accept the 200 gig and larger hard drives. So I wasn't sure if it was just that easy for the TIVO as well.

Posted by: stormsweeper

It could also be the system istelf, ie the TiVo ROM.

Posted by: deeremj

It would seem to me that some type of Firmware upgrade of the hardware is needed to support the ATA/133 spec of the > 137 gig drives, as this is how it works on PC's..If you want to see the larger drives, you need a controller that supports it. the older ata/33/66/100 spec can't address > 137 gig. This is a function of hard(firm)ware, and not just software...

As you mentioned. Microsoft made changes a while back to support larger 'drives' (specifically raid arrays) > 137 gig, but the ata/xxx drives also needed a new controller and/or updated firmware to 'see' > 137 on a single IDE spindle.

So unless someone can hack a firmware update , Methinks we are SOL!

It is actually academic, as my 275 Gig (Dual 160 gig maxtor) SVR-2000 ran like a pig, So slow when full of shows that it was barely usable! - Perhaps the processor/memory are just not able to handle so much data.

-MJ