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Got My Big HD and My TurboNet Card!
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Posted by: jpascone

Now What? There are about 400 different links or discussions on installing an updated drive or a Turbonet card. Is there a single definitive source I know I can go for the best instructions. I have a Tivo Hd320 and just purchased a 120 GB drive and Turbonet card for it.. I am not super linux savvy but pretty good with hardware and get get my way around the OS. Ideally I would like to use my existing Tivo HD in addition to my new 120 GB. Sorry for a thread which obviously has 1000 other threads on the topic but that's just it, there are TOO many topics!
Thanks!

Posted by: Robert S

Get New Hinsdale from the top of this Forum. I recommend replacing your current drive(s) with the new one. If you want to keep your recordings, do a pipe transfer (don't use dd).

Your Linux knowledge won't be tremendously useful - just follow the instructions.

As for TurboNet, you might be better off looking in the Underground - most of the threads here refer to hard drive upgrades.

Posted by: ThreeSoFar

What do you want the TurboNet to do for you? If it's just to do the downloads of guide data, and you already have the 3.0+ software, you don't need to do any linux or config file hacking on the system to enable TurboNet.

But if you want your TiVo to become a ftp/telnet/http server (e.g. TiVoWeb), then it will take config file changes.

My TurboNets are just enabled via the dial prefix ,#401 and nothing else. (other than cracking the case to put them into place and threading/making the cable that feeds them).

Posted by: jpascone

Downloading the guide data is 'neat' but I have had zero problems using the modem for going on 3 years now. What I really think kicks is the WebTivo. Being able to program my TIVO from Work via my terminal server get's me a little giddy.

Posted by: jpascone

quote:
Originally posted by Robert S
Get New Hinsdale from the top of this Forum. I recommend replacing your current drive(s) with the new one.

Why not use both drives?

Posted by: Robert S

I seem to be having this argument a lot lately. It's just a personal recommendation based on:

Safety: Drive failure = put old drives back in.

Simplicity: No need to improvise mount for second drive.

Future proof: Add a big second drive later with mfsadd.

Search back through my posts yesterday and you'll find a better argued version.

Posted by: jpascone

Robert, you had me at Safety. To be honest with you if I will be getting 4X the capacity with my 120GB drive I will probably have more then enough room! Having the original TIVO drive stored in my file cabinet will make me feel a lot more comfortable while making other mods.

Posted by: UncaAndoo

quote:
Originally posted by Robert S
I seem to be having this argument a lot lately. It's just a personal recommendation based on:

Safety: Drive failure = put old drives back in.

Simplicity: No need to improvise mount for second drive.

Future proof: Add a big second drive later with mfsadd.

Search back through my posts yesterday and you'll find a better argued version.

Yes, but if there is an software upgrade in the meantime, aren't you screwed? I have 2 2.5.0 drives sitting in a box with some recordings on them, that I replaced with 2 120GB drives. Now there's been an upgrade to 2.5.2, I think, and they're useless, plus I can't get access to the shows on them.

Posted by: Robert S

That only applies to DTiVoes, of course.

Are you sure your old drives don't work? I thought that problem only applied to moving drives between DTiVoes. If it's the PROM lock-down stopping you you can reflash the PROM (see the TurboNet install CD).

Anyway, keeping your old drives as a security backup probably becomes irrelevent after a couple of months. As long as you've got a MFS Tools backup you can probably reuse the drives in a PC. I'm just concerned that with the large number of people following my advice at least some of them are likely to have DOA drives and rescueing a twin-drive TiVo is much more complicated than a single.

Posted by: UncaAndoo

What I meant to say is that, isn't this a Type I Moron kind of thing? Hmm...maybe it doesn't really matter for 2.5.x upgrades, just 2.x.x upgrades.

If so, then maybe there's a way to restore the recordings on my original two drives to my 2 120GB MFSTools 1.1 upgrade drives?

Posted by: Robert S

I think if you restore an earlier version the TiVo should just pick up the new version on the next call. (Admittedly there are a some desparate Sony T-60 users around trying to find a usable 2.5.2 image, but it's not clear that this is a Moron issue).

A Type I Moron installs an image earlier than the one shipped with his TiVo (this breaks the upgrade mechanism). You can never be a Moron using your own backups.

Posted by: jpascone

Probably a stupid question but could I simply use one of these disk duplicating tools to transfer my 30GB to my 120GB? I do have the fight on the TIVO currently and would like to keep it if possible, I could care less about the rest of the stuff (except the programming of course)

Posted by: Robert S

No, Ghost works at the level of the MS DOS partitions - it won't understand how to work with the TiVo partitions.

Just use an MFS Tools pipe:

mfsbackup ... | mfsrestore ...

And you'll do what you need.

Posted by: imadork

Why shouldn't you use dd?

Posted by: Robert S

Because it doesn't increase your swap (if you've already increased your swap, then fine). Doing the mfstools pipe allows you to increase swap. Not having extra swap exposes you to a slight risk in certain configurations (see the Fixes thread). It's safest for me to tell everyone to increase swap.