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Posted by: TheD0CTOR

Ok, my T60 has been working fine. It's got a 120GB WD drive along with the original 35hr. The only extra stuff I'm running over stock are the telnet and ftp daemons, tivoweb (upgraded to 1.9.4 yesterday), and elseed. Option wise, I've done the 30 second skip, and was playing with sorting the Now Playing list.

A little while ago, I uploaded a sshd cpio.gz file to my /var/hack directory. I telnet'd in and attempted to gzip -d <file>.cpio.gz, this came back and said it wasn't a valid gzip file. About 5 seconds later, my telnet froze, then my box rebooted. Now, I have this wonderful GSOD telling me that a severe error has occured.

Also, now I can't telnet or ftp into the thing... Has it booted from another rc.sysinit? I can't get in via serial either!

First question is: What the hell could have happened with a gzip to crash the damned thing.

Second is: It's telling me to leave it plugged into the phone for 3 hours and pray. If that doesn't work, then what?

I'm really confused, it's not like I was doing anything. Hell, I was just extracting an archive.

Posted by: Robert S

The GSOD is an alternate boot path that just runs mfsfix - your hacks might still be there and may run when it reboots after the green screen.

Posted by: TheD0CTOR

Well, it came back to me, hacks and all. So the GSOD is basically fsck with a "the sky is falling" screen over it huh? Whew.

Thanks Robert S.

Posted by: TheD0CTOR

Hmmm, looks like this was the precursor to my problems. Watching a recording last night, video started getting choppy and sound started dropping out. Noticed hard drive clicking as this happened, then the box rebooted itself. Has done the same thing 3 more times since then. I'm assuming this is indicitive of a failing drive. Just trying to determine if it's the B drive (original 35 hr) or the A (new WD1200), neither of which is more than about 4 mo. old.

Any suggestions before I dive into this?

Thanks...
Doc

Posted by: litzdog911

Best way to troubleshoot a suspected hard drive problem is to remove the drive(s) from your Tivo, connect to your PC and run the drive manufacturer's diagnostic utility from DOS (e.g. Maxtor's PowerMax utility). Run the full suite of tests. Most drive manufacturer's will require this step before authorizing a warranty return, so it's time well spend. The only downside is that these diagnostic utilities don't always catch all problems.

By the way, you might just try re-seating your IDE and power cables first.

Posted by: TheD0CTOR

quote:
The only downside is that these diagnostic utilities don't always catch all problems.

Well... That's where I am now... I let the T60 go for a few more days, same results. Tonight I was watching a recording from before things went bad. Started getting video/audio freeze, (some with head seek noise, some w/o). Finally one video freeze that never came back, and the system rebooted itself.

So I downloaded the WD utilities (for the 120GB HD) and PowerMax (for the orig drive). BOTH report NO problems on the long test (factory recertify).

Any suggestions?

Thanks!
Doc