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Posted by: prospero

I recently upgraded my Hughes DirecTivo from a 40 GB to a 120 GB Drive.

I did this upgrade in Saturday 9/21. I have noticed the following things since the upgrade.

1 - "Service Data Download" has not completed successfully. The message that reported is "Finished" The last successful time this completed was 9/12 2:33 AM

2 - Garbage Collection "GC" has not been performed Since 9/20 at 8:37 PM

3 - Indexing has not been performed since 9/21 1:39 PM

I have compared this with my Sony T-60 and during the same time period all of the above processes have completed successfully.

Any thoughts on this problem and how to correct it would be great.

I tried searching for a solution but was unsuccessful. If this has already been answered please accept my apologies in advance.

Thanks

Prospero

Posted by: Robert S

See the Fixes thread at the top of this Forum. Check your swap as described in Cpen's post on page one.

Posted by: prospero

This upgrade was not done with MFS Tools 2.0.

It was done with TivoMad and MFS Tools 1.1.

Does that make a difference?

Prospero

Posted by: Robert S

You should always get at least 64Mb of swap with TiVoMad, which is enough to run the indexer (MFS Tools 2.0 can give you no swap at all, which breaks the indexer).

Presumably it still works correctly with the old drive.

I don't know of other causes for this problem. I take it everything else is working correctly - no stuttering video?

Posted by: prospero

I just looked in the log files and the Swap partition was activated correctly. It displayed a similar same message as in cpen post. The only difference is the size which reflects the larger swap size (128 MB).

"activating swap partitions"
"adding swap:130298 swap-space (priority-1)"

There are no other issues at all. In fact the DirecTivo is not faster and seems to be over all a better device. I am sure that this is for several reasons, including larger swap, 7200 RPM drive and a 2 MB cache on the new drive vs the 512k cache on the old drive.

Prospero

Posted by: Robert S

Like I said, TiVoMad always creates valid swap. It can even create a valid 128Mb partition whereas MFS Tools 2.0 can only create 127Mb partitions (hence the slightly different numbers).

Posted by: prospero

So now that we know this problem is not Swap related, are they any other thoughts / suggestions?

Prospero

Posted by: stormsweeper

quote:
Originally posted by Robert S
Like I said, TiVoMad always creates valid swap. It can even create a valid 128Mb partition whereas MFS Tools 2.0 can only create 127Mb partitions (hence the slightly different numbers).

Nope, it just runs mkswap on the Tivo itself, which creates a valid old type swap partition. Which means it truncates to 127MB, as reported by the swapon messages.

Posted by: mrtickle

It truncates it to 127.244MB. MFStools2 can only create 127.000MB swap, hence the slightly different numbers as Robert S said.