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Please Help!! 15 hours of trying to fix and still no luck
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Posted by: whino

you guys are my last hope---HELP

I appologize for the cross post but I posted the original in the wrong forum.

I had two hard drives in my TiVo SRV 2000. I determined that Hard drive B was fried and A was fine (tested them both on powermax diag).

I made 3 attempts to run TiVo only from the working drive A.

Attempt 1:

qunlocked the drive
ran mad tivo to create a new partition drive A
downloaded a SVR 2000 2.5 from ftp.abs.net
restored it onto the drive using mfsrestore command
loaded hard drive into Tivo and was stuck on welcome screen..

Attempt 2:

qunlocked the drive
ran mad tivo to create a new partition drive A
downloaded a SVR 2000 2.0.1 from ftp.abs.net
restored it onto the drive using mfsrestore command
loaded hard drive into Tivo and was stuck on welcome screen..

Attempt 3:

qunlocked the drive
ran mad tivo to create a new partition drive A
downloaded a SVR 2000 1.3 from ftp.abs.net
restored it onto the drive using mfsrestore command
ran mad tivo command: mad/edit_bootparms hdb -i
loaded hard drive into Tivo and was stuck on welcome screen..

The command I used to restore was:

mfsrestore -zpi /mnt/c/svr2000.bak /dev/hdc
I did get one error message while running mfsrestore:

hdc:hdc: timeout waiting for DMA
ide_dmaproc: chipset supported ide_dma_timeout func only: 14
hdc: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }

This error message would repeat two or three times after running mfsrestore, but then it would actually restore the image onto the hard drive anyway

In my bios, however, I turned off DMA for the Tivo hard drive, yet I still got that message. I don't think this message is hindering the extacting of the image though.

Please Help!!

Thanks