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I just when through a hard drive upgrade on my HDVR2 SW version 3.1.0. I replaced the original 40 meg drive with a 60 meg drive (one for one swap). Used mfstool2 and all seemed to go well. I completed a backup and made a test run. I Tivo Booted up fine and all seemed to me well except the hard drive seemed to suffle a lot.

From there I run a complete copy/expand and again all seemed to go well with no errors. I did notice that it report "44 hours (4 more)" when the program stoped. I expected to get about 52 hours (17 more) since I increased the drive space by 50 percent.

I installed the drive into the Tivo. The Tivo Booted up and all seemed to be fine. I check the system report and it said I had 35 hours record time, I expected to see the 52 hours. Also the drive keep shuffling (a lot), like when I run scan disc or defrag on the PC. Then I went to play an old recording which was suppose to copy and that wouldn't work. It asked me if I wanted to delete the recording right off the bat. When I said no, then tivo said that it didn't record because of no signal??

So 3 problems:
1) drive shuffle
2) no increase in max record time as reported in system report
3). can't play old files that were suppose to copy over

Thanks for any help!

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Can't play old files is easy - you made a backup without files (-6so, usually). That means you'll get the list in Now Playing, but not the files themselves.

The drive shuffling may be normal setup - plus the TiVo is always writing its buffer. Is it possible that the 60 is just louder than the (already-loud) 40 so you hear it more?

No increase in time may be improper jumper settings. What size does your BIOS report on boot in the PC?

Michael

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Problem solved....

The drive acts just like it did during the TEST run! I was thinking about that along with the fact that I have a 45 GIG drive in my PC. CRAP!!!! I wrote the copy/expand to my PC drive! Sure enough, I tried booting the PC and got a boot error. Put the PC drive in the Tivo and there it was. Reported 39 hour record time (extra 5 gig space) and played all old programs.

Now I can't take the ENTIRE blame (sure some of it was my fault for not checking each step). But at the beginning of the hinsdale how-to document, they define the default IDE connections

hda - pc FAT32 C: drive
hdb - primary slave - new bigger single drive
hdc - secondary master - old tivo drive
hdd - secondary slave - cd cd-rw drive

those settings worked fine for the backup and test steps. But when you perform the copy/expand command for a single to single drive (slow option):

mfsbackup -Tao - /dev/hdc | mfsrestore -s 127 -xzpi - /dev/hda

YOU END UP WRITING TO THE FAT32 PC DRIVE!!!!

Well I should have looked at the boot script to varify the drive settings.
Luckily I didn't use my new XP computer, but was using the old Windows-ME computer. I don't think I lost anything important.

Thanks for the help!
Everyone beware!

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Oh yea, about the hard drive shuffle...
The 40 Gig Maxtor drive that came with the Tivo is very quite and that's why I didn't notice the suffle! The 60 Gig Maxtor (new) 7200 ATA133 is a LOT noisier!

So how do you know when your buying a quite drive??

Any recommendations for a 120 Gig drive that is very quite (I'll pay a little more for for less noise).

Thanks again!

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Generally, the Samsung drives are much quieter than the Maxtors.

Michael

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