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10-11-2001 02:05 PM

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got my drive from staples

hello all
i Finally received my drive from staples and im having an issue w/ it already. figured i would check here before calling it a done deal.

anyone have issues of drive size recognition? on 2 seperate computers, both recent, i cant get the drive to detect at larger than 10 GB

TIA

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10-11-2001 02:20 PM

willieb
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Is it 10GB or 10 MB? If it is 10 MB then the drive is prob only locked -- look at hinsdale's upgrade how to and it will tell you how to unlock a drive. I got my 80 GB Maxtor from Staples and it has worked beautifully so far.

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10-11-2001 02:48 PM

bsnelson
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Any drive that didn't originally come in a TiVo won't be locked.

Try turning off BIOS recognition of the drive; it's in the FAQ.

Brad

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10-11-2001 06:38 PM

Saturn
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Actually if you stick a quantum drive in the TiVo and boot it up, the TiVo will lock the drive (neat trick huh?). Use TiVoMad's qunlock.exe to unlock the drive.

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10-11-2001 06:46 PM

hinsdale
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quote:
Originally posted by Saturn49:
Actually if you stick a quantum drive in the TiVo and boot it up, the TiVo will lock the drive (neat trick huh?). Use TiVoMad's qunlock.exe to unlock the drive.

Actually will do it with any drive that has the Quantum firmware.. including many of the new Maxtor (Quaxtor) drives.

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10-11-2001 08:00 PM

tivolovit
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What does "locking" the drive really do?

TiVoloViT

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10-11-2001 09:03 PM

Cspot
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quote:
Originally posted by joedelt:
hello all
i Finally received my drive from staples and im having an issue w/ it already. figured i would check here before calling it a done deal.

anyone have issues of drive size recognition? on 2 seperate computers, both recent, i cant get the drive to detect at larger than 10 GB

TIA

Mine was the same way, ran qunlock and all is well....

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10-12-2001 06:29 AM

Worf
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quote:
Originally posted by tivolovit:
What does "locking" the drive really do?

Causes the drive to misreport it's actual capacity - it can still access the first bit of the drive, but it'll refuse to access the rest of it until it's unlocked. Older drive firmware had bugs that would cause stuff like switching to LBA mode to unlock the drive (hence why dlgchk used to work) inadvertently.

qunlock unlocks the drive properly - it gives back the proper challenge/responses, and rewrites the locks to eliminate the locking.

This was done most likely to prevent people from trying to fraudulently get a free hard drive from TiVo - buy a TiVo, remove hard drive, return TiVo as "nonfunctional" and get a free hard drive. (30 GB hard drives were popular to rip off...). I wonder if ReplayTV or UTV have the same issues...

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