Registered: Jun 2001
Location: Downers Grove, IL USA
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Hello.

I have searched the FAQ and the forum for information, and I came up dry.

I have a new Dell laptop, and a somewhat aged Mac (G4/466). I also have a Series 1 and a Series 2 DTivo. Is there any way I can use the DTivo Mad tools with either of these?

I am willing to buy hardware. I haven't been able to find a PC Card that will allow me to plug in a 3.5" ATA drive. Am I just a bad searcher? Likewise, I've seen kits that allow you to put your 2.5" laptop drive in your PC, but none of these kits say the reverse will work. Any ideas?

I could also use my Mac, but, as best as I could tell the software either doesn't exist, or, has not been updated in a while.

Thank You.

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This might work. I think I remember the boot CDs loading USB Hard drive drivers.

-Mike

http://www.cyberguys.com/cgi-bin/sg...UREQC=3&UREQD=4

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Registered: Jun 2001
Location: Downers Grove, IL USA
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Thank you for the idea.

I found this somewhat old thread:

http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-v...ighlight=laptop

In which kazymyr said:

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The boot CD kernels have USB support. That said, it's fairly generic and I don't know if it will work with your particular devices. The only way to find that out is try. Sorry I cannot give you any pointers, but I've never used any USB devices (belive it or not), either in Linux or in anything else. I just included USB support for the heck of it.

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I am fairly certain that even if you can get the CD to recognize an external USB-connected hard drive, MFStools won't work with it. AFAIK, MFStools only works for drives connected directly to an IDE bus. But you can always try - please make sure you post back your results if it works. You can always do an old-style dd backup, and an old-style blessing, even on an USB drive.

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