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Modified DSR6000 w/ stuttering probs-
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Posted by: dxer

I added an extra 120mb to my '6000 7/1/02. No problems -it has been working great! However... ever since the 3.1 upgrade the menus have been unbearably slow. The now playing list takes between 25 and 35 seconds to load. I also just noticed that when I went to play back a movie that I had recorded in June the playback was fine for a few minutes, then I had a few minutes of off and on stuttering... then ok, then stuttering. This is the same with every recording done prior to the 7/1 upgrade!
If I view a recording done post upgrade all is well!

Is this an index problem? How often should the DTIVO index? I never noticed this prior to the 3.1 upgrade but now I'm not sure if this is a coincidence or maybe my "A" original is going bad?

As a point of interest, I also upgraded my Sony T60 and although the T60's menu is much slower than it was prior to the ver 3.1 upgrade it is not as slow as the 6000 and I have not noticed any stuttering on T60 recordings done prior to its own HD upgrade.

Will the DSR6000 TIVO eventually dfrag (index) itself out of it, or am I just kidding myself and should I go ahead and replace the A drive in the 6000?

Thanks, and maybe I'll meet some of you at WCES.

Posted by: cclaunch

I upgraded my DSR6000 with a 120GB second drive, am on 3.1 and began suffering stuttering. It continued to worsen but in my case it was the brand new Maxtor 120GB that was bad. There were many who suspected 3.1 because it was a noticeable change around the same time that they first noticed the stuttering and freezes (such as slow menus). I believe that the overwhelming majority have found that a HD failure was the actual cause.

There is no fragmentation or indexing condition that should occur to cause stuttering, particularly in a fixed location on each playback -- this is almost certainly a read error that puts the drive into an elongated re-read cycle or the TiVo into some error recovery, both disrupting the display of the video stream.

While I concur with you that, given the failures all occur solely on recording made when you had only the A drive, the chances are higher that your problem is with the original drive, that is not a certainty. There is a smaller chance that it is your new drive that is failing that you can't totally disregard.