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60 Hour Series 2 Upgrade Short Version
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Posted by: Larry Dernay

Hi:

I'm a new TIVO user (< 30 days) and will hopefully be doing my own upgrade after my 90 days are up. Lots of info in the Hinsdale upgrade instructions but I am going to write a "condensed" version of my understanding of what I am doing. Hopefully someone more experienced will confirm or correct my understanding.

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I am going to add an additional hard drive to my Series 2 60 hour. One would think that I could just pop in the second hard drive, connect it as a slave and off I go. The reason I can't is because we need to adjust the software that is written on the original drive to let it know that I am adding more space.

So, what I must do is pop out the "A" drive and essentially WRITE a software change to it. This is done using the MFS tools. The command that this step is "mfsadd ......".

Once I do this I can pop back drive "A" and add drive "B" and I'm good to go.

That would be the basics. One thing Hinsdale has us do though, is BACKUP the "A "drive just in case something goes wrong. That way we can restore the "A" drive back to what we had (minus the actual recordings...unless we do a full backup).

Also, doing the backup and saving it somewhere is a good idea, just in case we get "A" drive failure in the future.

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In essence...is that it?

Posted by: c3

Other than for backup and the more advanced issue about swap space, you don't need to do anything to drive A. Just bless drive B (without byte swapping) and plug in.

Posted by: weaknees

If you do want to add the swap space to the new setup (you don't really need to - it seems you'll be within a decent range still) you could backup your A drive and use the new drive as the A drive (the current one wont accomodate more swap space, since it's full). Then setup the existing A drive as the B drive (mfsadd) , and you'll have the same amount of space again.

Michael