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Nutter

10-24-2006, 09:13 PM

I recently got a 400GB Seagate drive (ST3400632A-RK) for $95 delivered (buy.com) to upgrade my HR10-250 (v6.3). I sent off for the TwinBreeze bracket and downloaded the MFSTools iso image. The upgrade went without a hitch, the bracket and instructions where first class. Total time taken 30mins. :D

John

mightygrom

10-27-2006, 12:23 PM

I have a 540-040 which started doing the pause trick, I checked the fan, and it seems to be ok, and the unit was cool while it was running and stuttering. so I guessed it was the drive going bad.

I purchased a maxtor 200gb drive to do the swap, and followed the instructions on the site, and it seemed to work, but when I booted the tivo after installing the drive, it switched from the initial power-up screen to a blank white screen and sat there.

did I miss a step, or something?

-mightygrom
(not feeling so mighty now)

dennya

10-30-2006, 12:25 AM

I'm using an Intel Bad Axe motherboard that has only one IDE controller. My goal is to copy my HR10-250's current drive to a new 400GB drive, and then add a second drive 300GB as well. However, the instructions require a pair of IDE controllers to do this.

First, I tried using an old Promise Ultra133TX2 PCI IDE controller to add another IDE channel. When I boot from the Weaknees CD, it sees the additional drives and adds them as HDI and HDJ. However, when I attempt to actually execute the mfsbackup/mfsrestore command, it gives me an error (directory not found) when it attempts to start writing to HDI.

Any ideas/suggestions? I could just do it in two steps -- first back up the old drive to the new one, then install that and add the second drive to the image there. However, that takes both IDE channels, leaving me no way to boot. I can't find an MFSTools floppy with LBA48 support, nor can I figure out a way to get the MFSTools ISO onto bootable Flash Disk. (That step's probably easy for a Linux user, but alas I'm running XP.)

Anyone been in a similar situation? Got a good workaround? It's going to be a more common problem as fewer new PCs are shipping with two IDE channels...

jstutman

10-31-2006, 07:28 PM

Just some quick assistance.

Im copying my tivo hdd to a 250 hdd and they show up as

hda-250 new hdd
hdb 80 gig tivo

are these settings correct?

mfsbackup -f 9999 -so - /dev/hdb | mfsrestore -s 127 -r 4 -xzpi - /dev/hdb

Thanks

azitnay

10-31-2006, 07:40 PM

You need to pass mfsrestore /dev/hda, not /dev/hdb:

mfsbackup -f 9999 -so - /dev/hdb | mfsrestore -s 127 -r 4 -xzpi - /dev/hda

Otherwise, assuming you only want to copy settings and not recordings, it looks correct.

Drew

jstutman

10-31-2006, 07:46 PM

Somard

11-02-2006, 04:44 PM

Just replaced a dying drive with a 250g drive and had the old cd mount issue which i cleared up with turning off my SATA raid controller. The drive on my bedroom tivo is great but seeing how easy this was i think ill add a 250g to that one also.

weaknees

11-15-2006, 12:35 PM

We've added the TCD648250B units to our upgrade instructions, and we've added a new downloadable CD (still free!) that contains a version of Linux that supports SATA drives. Check it out!

w2jo

11-15-2006, 02:46 PM

What is the story on adding an external drive to the Series 3? Is that working yet?
Thanks.

weaknees

11-15-2006, 02:49 PM

The external port is just still inactive at this point. Due to all of the restrictions with CableCARDs, we definitely have doubts as to whether it will ever happen.

tivoupgrade

11-15-2006, 03:01 PM

We've added the TCD648250B units to our upgrade instructions, and we've added a new downloadable CD (still free!) that contains a version of Linux that supports SATA drives. Check it out!

I've been unable to boot using this CD (hangs during bootup at mouse/keyboard input lines). The other CD that doesn't seem to work on this PC is the one that was previously hosted at www.tivolive.org. Same PC works fine with the older mfstools CDs.

weaknees

11-15-2006, 03:05 PM

I did have a version that had that problem - I must have uploaded the wrong version. Putting up the new one now.

w2jo

11-15-2006, 03:44 PM

weaknees

11-15-2006, 03:50 PM

Weakknees.. Is there any software limitation on how large the INTERNAL series 3 HD can be? I am thinking about cloning the existing series 3 HD onto the largest SATA HD I can find. I have what it takes to do that easily unless they limited the address space somehow.
Thanks.

The 750s are the largest SATA drives that exist, as far as we know, and they work just fine, excepting noise issues with some.

kkluba

11-15-2006, 06:54 PM

Will the Seagate PATA 750's work? Any experience with them? Noisy?

weaknees

11-15-2006, 07:01 PM

PATAs don't work in the Series3 units.

spike2k5

11-15-2006, 07:58 PM

The other CD that doesn't seem to work on this PC is the one that was previously hosted at www.tivolive.org. Same PC works fine with the older mfstools CDs.

What kind of PC is it?
My cd was being beta tested and I don't remember sending url to you.
When did you grab the iso file?

kkluba

11-16-2006, 07:11 AM

PATAs don't work in the Series3 units.

Thanks. But they are what works with an HR10-250, no?

weaknees

11-16-2006, 08:00 AM

Right - every other TiVo made to date uses PATA drives.

coldtoes

01-07-2007, 09:37 PM

Michael -

Just used your instructions again for an upgrade and they are useful and straightforward as always. However I think you have a bad link on your site on the http://www.weaknees.com/upgrade-instructions.php page. When I click the "Replace one drive with one drive" link for the 649 boxes, I get these (http://www.weaknees.com/instructions/sa_s2b_replace.pdf), which look like they're for a DirecTiVo. It was easy enough to use one of the other two 649 instructions, but I thought you'd want a heads up so you could fix the link.

Thanks again for providing such a great tool to us DIY upgraders!

xylium

01-11-2007, 04:07 PM

I'm really new to this but I have found all the instructions on how to change the hard drive. I beleive the hard drive in my Brothers Hughes HDVR2 is bad, we tried to do a system initilization and now it just sits at the formatting screen and never finishes. I assume the hard drive is bad so we would like to change it, question is, will I have problems copying the system from the old drive to the new? Also, are we going to have problems using a Western Digital 160gb from Wal-Mart?

Thanks,
Robert

rtphokie

02-11-2007, 08:21 AM

I'm trying to replace a bad 120GB drive with a new 250gb drive but am having problems with the boot CD. I'm getting a weird error message when booting to this CD. My PC sees the CD just fine and starts the boot sequence. Then I get this:

Welcome to the rescue disk
Trying to mount the CD-ROM, try 1
Trying to mount the CD-ROM, try 2
Trying to mount the CD-ROM, try 3
Trying to mount the CD-ROM, try 4
Trying to mount the CD-ROM, try 5
No CD-ROM found

I'm assuming it has something to do with this, paging up to verify where the PC recognized the drives:

[INDENT]
hde is the old TiVo drive
hdf is the new drive
hdg is the DVD drive where the boot CD is currently and is on the secondary master
[INDENT]

When booting from the boot CD available in the Hinsdale instructions, everything shifted down 4 slots (i.e. the old TiVo drive is at hda, the new at hdb, the DVD drive at hdc, etc.)

Any ideas?

HomeUser

02-12-2007, 09:06 PM

Welcome to the rescue disk
Trying to mount the CD-ROM, try 1
Trying to mount the CD-ROM, try 2
Trying to mount the CD-ROM, try 3
Trying to mount the CD-ROM, try 4
Trying to mount the CD-ROM, try 5
No CD-ROM found

Rescue Disk? do you happen to have a system Install/Recovery floppy in the drive?

As for the drive letter shift that happens with some add-on IDE cards.