Registered: Jun 2004
Location: Temecula, CA
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Ok all I want to do is add a 2nd drive to my Tivo (I already have a backup drive available). With that said do I only need to bless the 2nd drive and install it??

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Registered: Jul 2002
Location: Cambridgeshire, UK
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Blessing only works if the A drive is not upgraded and not already married to a B drive. If the A drive is upgraded, you need to use mfsadd to add a B drive (which means putting the A drive in the PC too). If the TiVo already has two drives, you need to use dd to clone the current drive and then mfsadd to expand.

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Registered: Jun 2004
Location: Temecula, CA
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No the drive is just the factory drive with nothing upgraded or married to it.

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Ok just for clarification I am upgrading a HDTivo. So to add the 2nd drive I use the boot cd and install the 2nd drive on the PC. I then use the blesstivo command and then install the 2nd drive into the Tivo and I should be go to go correct??

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Registered: Jul 2002
Location: Cambridgeshire, UK
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Well I haven't personally worked on that model, for obvious reasons, but Hinsdale doesn't indicate there's anything too unusual about it, so I guess Blessing would work.

Remember that Series 2 TiVoes aren't byteswapped, so there's a slightly different technique for using BlessTiVo.

The good thing about Blessing is that if it goes wrong, the TiVo will just ignore the new drive, so it's pretty safe.

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Registered: Sep 2001
Location: Houston, Texas, USA
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Yes, that's it. For the HD-TiVo make sure you boot with an LB48 disk and then just run BlessTiVo /dev/hdX

Obviously where X is your drive location. If you want peace of mind do a backup first, if not there are/will be other ways to restore that are much less convenient (I would recommend a backup).

Good luck,

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