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Write Protected Hard Drive -- Read Only
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Posted by: richz1

I just bought a new Maxtor 80 GB 5400 RPM to upgrade my DirecTIVO.

Since I bought a Maxtor HD I ran the qunlock program just in case the HD was locked.

When I boot off the my TIVO boot cd and login as root I get a message telling me that the new HD is write protected and that it is read only.

Since the drive is read only I can't run the restore program to load the software onto the new HD.

Please help! What do I need to do.

Posted by: Robert S

Very strange. Hard drives aren't normally write protected, for obvious reasons. Drive locking only affects original TiVo drives and makes them appear to be ~10Mb in size, but you can write to those 10Mb.

At what point does the error message appear? Can you partition the drive with FDISK from DOS?

Posted by: zaknafein

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that I do believe you are misinterpreting the message you are seeing. If you are referring to the line at the beginning that sees something to the effect "Block device /dev/hdb mounted read only", then that is referring to the CD-ROM drive.