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Need help DTV upgrade -- boots no more..
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Posted by: ohboywhatnow

Using Hinsdale's howto, I chose scenario #4, where I wanted to save my recordings and a new, larger A drive. I currently had the original A drive and an 80GB B drive. This is a Hughes DTV. Anyway, I did the dd, then ran mfsadd to get the the new A drive and the existing B drive set up. Put them in my Tivo and the thing just sits on "Powering up..." for a bit, then reboots, rinse, lather repeat..you get the picture. If I put the original A drive back in, it gets to the "almost done" screen, then gives a very quick GSOD (I believe) telling me to not power down etc for 24 hours while it thinks things over, proceeds to reboot and repeat the cycle over and over. In the meantime I have YET to get an MFSbacked-up image to work on this thing. I did a backup of another Hughes (40GB orig drive only) and IT wouldn't boot in either machine. The original 40GB drive, of course, boots fine. I thought about trying that in my first unit (the one I'm working on) but am afraid it'll screw it up, too. The ONLY thing I can think that might be remotely off in the way I did this is that the original A and B drive were both primary IDE, A was master, B was slave. I've seen some notes about the hda not getting byteswapped, but if I was using dd that shouldn't matter. I wonder if THAT drive didn't get hosed on the mfsadd. Does mfsadd write to the original A drive (how would it know?). In any event, my original A drive seems to be horked. If I try to mfsbackup or mfsinfo the orig A + orig B it complains about maps being corrupt or something like that. If I do mfsinfo on the new A + orig B, it reports lots o' space like I'd expect...but it won't boot. Have verified and reverified the jumpers. Tivo SW is 2.5+. The new A drive is an IBM GXP 75GB, the current B drive is a Maxtor 80GB. I'm stumped that I can't even get a simple backup to boot. Any ideas? I'm desparate! I have months of "Dark Shadows" episodes that I just can't bear to lose, having not watched them yet!

Posted by: krogers

Any help on this would be appreciate by me as well since I'm in the same situation....

Powering up, almost there....just keep cycling.....

Backup won't reload.

I'm screwed!!!

Unless someone can point me in the direction of a site of file backup of DSR6000....

PLEASE HELP!!

Posted by: ohboywhatnow

Well, for those interested, the problem apparently stems from the Tivo (at least the Hughes DTV) not being able to read the IBM GXP75 disk drives. There was another thread relating the same problem. I had copied all the stuff from the A drive onto the GXP and expanded/married it to the existing 80GB B drive, and of course it was not working. So I ordered a pair of 120GB Western Digital drives (very quiet, BTW) and today did the mfsbackup | mfsrestore from the IBM A drive and the original B drive to the new WD drives. Works like a champ! Anyone need an IBM drive? ;-)