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Replace my 30Gig Tivo2 (code rev 3.0) with 120Gig?
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Posted by: Nomad

I want to remove the 30Gig drive in my S2 and put in a 120Gig that is currently sitting in my PC (spare drive, never used).

I don't care to save the configuration (would like to reset it anyway) and there's no movies to save at this point.

I have the drive in my desktop already as /dev/hdb (primary IDE slave). I downloaded the MFSTOOLS2.0, booted my desktop to Linux, untar'd the tools and did a "mfstool add /dev/hdb" and it blew an error about an unknown device.

Do I have to backup my primary disk and restore it?
Do I have to move the 120G to secondary master position?

Opening my desktop is a nightmare do to it's configuration and it's positioning. Opening it changing the 120 to secondary slave and putting the 30Gig drive in alone would run about 2hours work minimum.

Am I SoL and have to break everything open, reconfigure, copy, resize and break it open again or might there be an easier way? I've read Hinsdale's HOWTO as well as the README from Tiger but neither say specifically if I can just blank the 120G, run the mfstool and start from scratch.

Posted by: stormsweeper

You did completely the wrong command. The add command adds a drive to another. You want to follow the commands for upgrading to a new large A drive as in the hinsdale guide.

And yes, you have to pull the current drive from your TiVo.

Posted by: Robert S

The TiVo can't use that drive if it's in your PC's chassis - you're going to have to open it at some point!

It doesn't matter which device node a drive is attached to - just adjust Hinsdale's command lines as appropriate.

Backing up your current drive and restoring to your new drive will not take very long.

You are not 'formatting' the disk when you do this, a TiVo is a live Linux install, just like a PC. All the system and user software is on the A drive and that's what you're transferring with this process.