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I made mistake and need help
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Posted by: xiaoyu

Hi,

I made mistake when I perform a simple adding second hard drive for my daughter's tivo. I need good advice.
The tivo is a PTV-100 (the software version is 3.0). I use Tiger's mfs Tool 2.0 Boot CD to perform simple add on second hard drive. The original A drive was on primary master and the second drive was on the primary slave. I mistakenly did mount process ( I typed in "mkdir /mnt/dos; mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/dos" ). After I found I did wrong, then I type in "mfsadd -x....." . It went through fine, but I couldn't boot tivo by this new configuration. I have the backup file, so I can restore to the original A drive, but how can I preserve the recording on the original A drive?

Xiaoyu,

Posted by: jerrymc

What happens when you try to boot your new drives? Just mounting hda1 shouldn't cause any problems, I don't think. Could be a different issue.

-Jerry

Posted by: jerrymc

Also, did you try booting your Tivo from just the original A drive to see if it was still okay?

-Jerry

Posted by: Robert S

The precise behaviour of your TiVo when it doesn't boot depends on what the problem is.

Posted by: xiaoyu

Hi there,

Sorry, my Internet connection had trouble this weekend after I sent my message, so I just read your reply this morning. Thank you.
My add on drive is also 13.6 GB from other Tivo. First of all, Tivo wouldn't boot with two drive system. The screen showed just like a system without hard drive (or hard drive died) and stay there for ever. Second, I tried just use the original A drive, it's the same. I could boot Tivo, only if I restore the backup on the second drive and uses it alone. I haven't restore the backup on the original A, since I still hope I can save the recording.

Xiaoyu,

Posted by: jerrymc

Xiaoyu,

It doesn't sound good. I don't know what could have happened, but it does seem as if your original drive is corrupted. Tiger could tell you how this happened perhaps. If you've double checked all jumpers and cables, and the drive has no bent or broken pins, then I'm afraid the recordings are gone.

Does the original drive still spin up? If so, you will probably just have to restore again.

You have my sympathies. :(

-Jerry

Posted by: xiaoyu

Hi Jerry,

The original drive A was working fine before I made a backup file. I am wonderring that could my mistake cause the original A drive to be unbootable? BTW, after I added second drive, can I still run single A drive? Somehow I thought that you can't run without second drive.

Xiaoyu,

Posted by: xiaoyu

Hi,

I have sent a private message to Tiger, but no answer yet. My granddaughter is waiting for the tivo to record Disney show during the Christmas. I just want an answer: Does my mistake cause the original A to be invisible for tivo?

Posted by: jerrymc

Xiaoyu,

I don't know if your backup caused the problem with your A drive. Since we can't find another reason, it seems that it must be so. If you can't get the A drive to boot the Tivo by itself, the only thing you can do is restore it from the backup. This will lose your current recordings.

To answer your other question, once you add a second drive, you can't go back to the original A drive by itself without a restore.

Hope this helps.

-Jerry