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Second mfs drive ????
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Posted by: Bob E

Hey people
If you could spare a minute I need a little help. Isuccessfully added a second drive to my 14 hr tivo but have since decided that the original drive is to noisy and thought that I would get rid of it and just run the new 120 G hard drive. I went back into the linux boot cd system and attempted to do another mfsbackup scenario. everything was fine until I got to the msfbackup -6so /mnt/dos/tivo.bak /dev/hdc. When I run that command I get a series of messages about the mfs second drive not being there and such. Any ideas???

Posted by: Robert S

Perhaps you forgot to add /dev/hdb on the end?

Posted by: Bob E

Thanks robert,
I completely spaced the fact that I now have a dual drive tivo and was still following instuctions for a single drive. I,ll post if it works....or doesn't

Posted by: Bob E

Well I,m back...
Robert S had the solution, unfortunately I seem to have messed things up when I was attempting to get my bios to recognize my new 120 g drive and I reformatted my disk. Now I get a message stating (hdb3 illegal seek) and then a message about total sector mismatch with volume header. I'm an idiot, please make me smart again.

Posted by: Robert S

Well, I assume you've changed the LBA settings. You should be set to Auto with LBA enabled. I think the BIOS will see the drive as unformatted, so probably all you need to do is rerun mfsrestore. As long as Linux declares the drive as 120-ish Gb (I think it's 122 for the Maxtors) you should be OK.

Posted by: Bob E

Robert S

I truly thank you for your input and I feel I may be getting closer, but more problems keep popping up. I tried the mfsrestore after mounting the dos drive etc. and when I execute the restore command it is now telling me that tivo.bak does not exist. I went to my c: drive root directory and it is not there. that being the case how do I extract it from my original tivo drive to the c: drive. I thought about doing mfsbackup >>>/hdc /hda but don't know if this will work or screw up my c: drive. Any thoughts would be appreciated. PS when I put my new drive in auto LBA the system hangs at the detect drives point of the bootup

Posted by: Robert S

Writing to hda will completely erase the C: drive! You have to use mount to open the filing system.

You should be able to run mfsbackup as in Hinsdale to create a new tivo.bak file.

Posted by: Bob E

Thanks Robert but now I'm confused. Because you need both tivo hard drives to do a backup with what I have now (A former single drive tivo upgraded to a dual drive tivo) and my second tivo drive has been reformatted (Actually I'm doing a low level format on it as I type) (I'm hopeing this will at least solve the sector mismatch problem) How do I backup tivo.bak if I need both hd's to do it? I'm sorry, I must be missing something. Hindsdales instuctions don't deal with this situation. If you could walk me through it, I would be most appreciative.

Thanks Robert

Posted by: Robert S

Sorry, asleep at the keyboard. You said you were going to run mfsbackup. You do need two working drives.

What do you think happened to your tivo.bak file? Have you mounted the wrong partition?

If your tivo.bak file is erased you'll have to download one.

Posted by: Bob E

I don't know what happened to the tivo.bak, I did have a few problems during the original upgrade but overall things went pretty smoothly. That being said, where can I download a tivo.bak file? I have a 14 hour phillips.

Thanks Robert

Posted by: Robert S

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