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Series 2 80hr upgrades
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Posted by: Bob Scott

Question - do the 3.0 how-tos work for 3.2 ?

Question - can the series 2 80hr units be upgraded with a second drive?

Posted by: bobk

Don't know the answer to the first question, have not tried them yet.

The series 2 80 hr units can be upgraded with a second drive. For the Tivo branded models you need to buy/make a rack for the second drive. I *think* that the Sony ones come with it. And oh yes of course you will need a second drive, power splitter and longer 80-pin IDE cable.

Posted by: Bob Scott

Thanks, bob...

Going by your sig - did you upgrade a 40hr s2 or an 80hr s2?

9thtee sells the kits, but nowhere do they mention the 80hr unit (neither does weaknees).

Posted by: bobk

I've upgraded several Tivo 80hr s2's. I took a quick look and you are correct, they don't appear to have a full kit (== drive, bracket, cables, etc.). For the ones I've done I buy the drives myself and fashion a bracket out of an old 5.25" mounting frame for 3.5" floppy drives (I have a pile of these left over from various dead PCs). I know 9thtee makes an s2 bracket though. So your best course of action might be to buy a 120 GB drive somewhere and then get the rest of the parts from 9th tee.

Posted by: Bob Scott

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Originally posted by bobk
I've upgraded several Tivo 80hr s2's. I took a quick look and you are correct, they don't appear to have a full kit (== drive, bracket, cables, etc.). For the ones I've done I buy the drives myself and fashion a bracket out of an old 5.25" mounting frame for 3.5" floppy drives (I have a pile of these left over from various dead PCs). I know 9thtee makes an s2 bracket though. So your best course of action might be to buy a 120 GB drive somewhere and then get the rest of the parts from 9th tee.

Thanks! I also have boxes full of old spare pc parts - I'm sure there's something like that in there...

I'm actually thinking of patching together a Linux box out of the parts, which would make creating those drives easier - any recommendations? Which one is more compatible with the Tivo version?

Bob

Posted by: bobk

I believe that TiVo uses a customized version of the original distribution, not a commercial version. You can look at their customizations here.

Also, I remember someone once writing about byte-swapping problems when trying to mount TiVo drives on his Linux box. You might want to do a search for threads on that. In short as for recommendations, I don't have enough experience with this aspect of Tivo upgrades to be able to tell you whether building a Linux box to manipulate TiVo drives is worthwhile or not.

Perhaps someone else reading this thread can advise further.