Hacking your Series 2 DTivo just got a WHOLE lot easier...

[rpdre1]

wait did u already copy the drive and mfsrestore only recongized 137gb at the end?

[rpdre1]

also, id recommend you use this guide over the hinsdale guide: http://tivo.upgrade-instructions.com/ (supports lba48,6.2, etc)

that guide is much easier to understand imo. i used it last week with no problems.
if you decide to use that guide, read my post about dma 2 posts up.

[Tormentor]

I booted from the CD and looked at the size displayed for the drives.

With MFSTools I get:

hda 137439MB (New, unused, 250GB drive)
hdb 41110MB (Drive I removed from Tivo with my programs on it)


With the LBA48 CD

hda 250059MB
hdb 41110MB

After I saw the sizes with the MFSTools CD I rebooted with the LBA48. It is setting here waiting for a CR to continue.

[rpdre1]

I'm assuming you downloaded the mfstools cd from the sticky thread here and the PTV cd correct?

The ptv cd has mfstools on it so you dont need to boot the mfstools cd (its outdated and doesnt have lba48).

Boot the ptv cd, do the dma commands i mentioned earlier, then do the mfsbackup/mfsrestore command.

Also, did you buy the ptv cd or did u download the free one? you can use the free one for the drive copy but you're gonna need the $5 one for the kernel that the zipper needs, if you really dont want to buy the cd, we can talk on aim and i'll help you out.

[rbautch]

If you are offering to illegally distribute a copy of PTVupgrade's disk, don't. For god sakes, if you can't afford $5...

[rpdre1]

I dont have the cd, i was going to link him to the killhdinitrd threads on ddb.

[rpdre1]

since we're talking, i want to take the opportunity to thank you and gunny for the script, i've been lurking at this and the enhancement script thread for about a month now and i'm going to finally take the plunge when i get my netgear fa120 in the mail next week.

ive held back from running because the script updates so often i want to run the latest when i get my ethernet adapter.

[Tormentor]

I'm assuming you downloaded the mfstools cd from the sticky thread here and the PTV cd correct?
I downloaded mfstools from the link in Hinsdales document. It links to
hellcat tyger org/MFS/2.0/mfstools2noJ.iso
I purchased both the lba48 and Instantcake downloads from PTV




Boot the ptv cd, do the dma commands i mentioned earlier, then do the mfsbackup/mfsrestore command.
Boot from the PTV LBA48 CD or the PTV Instantcake CD?




Also, did you buy the ptv cd or did u download the free one? you can use the free one for the drive copy but you're gonna need the $5 one for the kernel that the zipper needs, if you really dont want to buy the cd, we can talk on aim and i'll help you out.
Purchased already. Just confused on the correct way to copy my recorded programs from the old (soon to be an unused backup) drive to my new shiny 250GB dive.



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[rpdre1]

I downloaded mfstools from the link in Hinsdales document. It links to hellcat tyger org/MFS/2.0/mfstools2noJ.iso


yea mfstools2noJ.iso doesnt have lba48


I purchased both the lba48 and Instantcake downloads from PTV

Boot from the PTV LBA48 CD or the PTV Instantcake CD?


boot from the ptv lba48, and do:

hdparm -d1 /dev/hda

hdparm -d1 /dev/hdb

mfsbackup -Tao - /dev/hda | mfsrestore -s 127 -r 4 -xzpi - /dev/hdb

adjust the ide letter to match your configuration.

[Tormentor]

boot from the ptv lba48, and do:

hdparm -d1 /dev/hda

hdparm -d1 /dev/hdb

mfsbackup -Tao - /dev/hda | mfsrestore -s 127 -r 4 -xzpi - /dev/hdb

adjust the ide letter to match your configuration.


Sorry I can't tell from the command structure which is the source and which is the destination.

What I currently have cabled is my NEW drive as hda (Destination), my old TiVo drive is hdb (Source), and the CD is hdc.

[rpdre1]

in that case just flip the hda & hdb (the two hdparm's dont have to be in any order)

mfsbackup -Tao - /dev/hdb | mfsrestore -s 127 -r 4 -xzpi - /dev/hda

be absolutely sure the new 250 is hda by pressing shift+page up to scroll up a few times, it will tell u the ide assignments there. do it before you type the cmd's.

also, the screen will blackout about every 5 mins or so, its normal. just press shift to bring the screen back.

[Tormentor]

Thanks!

I did verify again and the drives are designated as I thought. I've started it on its merry way. Currently RESTORING!! YEA!!

Once this finishes, do I remove the old little drive and start with the Zipper instructions at the beginning??



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[Gunnyman]

best bet would be to put it back in teh tivo to make sure it boots then yeah zip away :D

[rpdre1]

yup just skip the step about a 6.2 image :)

also, what i meant about the hdparm in my last post is that they dont have to be in any order but they do have to be before the mfsbackup. you can ctrl alt delete to abort and then redo the steps if you skipped hdparm.

[Tracy RainH2o]

Just when I thought I knew what to do.........................you guys are confusing me.

RCA DVR40 (currently unhacked)

I will be keeping my original 40GB drive as is, in case of a catrostrophy.
I have the tools CD ready except for the 000001 image file. I thought The Zipper would use the original image file off my original hard drive. Is this correct?

[rpdre1]

Just when I thought I knew what to do.........................you guys are confusing me.

RCA DVR40 (currently unhacked)

I will be keeping my original 40GB drive as is, in case of a catrostrophy.
I have the tools CD ready except for the 000001 image file. I thought The Zipper would use the original image file off my original hard drive. Is this correct?

if you want to use a new hard drive with your recordings & settings intact and keep your stock tivo drive as a backup, best way is to copy the drive with mfstools like we we're talking a few posts up and then run the zipper on the upgraded drive (after you've confirmed you did it right and the new drive works in your tivo)

[rbautch]

the 000001 file is only if you want to start fresh and overwrite the drive you run the script on.

if you want to use a new hard drive with your recordings & settings and keep your stock tivo drive as a backup,
what you do is copy the drive with mfstools like we we're talking a few posts up and then run the zipper on the upgraded drive (after you've confirmed you did it right and the new drive works in your tivo).

the zipper right now doesnt do drive upgrades... but it should intergrate mfstools in the future. people (like me for instance) that never hacked their tivo usually want to do it all at the same time.

i think we should move this to the upgrade center forum, i dont want to annoy rbautch or gunny by being offtopic.The Zipper DOES do drive upgrades with mfs tools. Follow the Zipper instructions to download the instantcake CD, copy the 000001 file to the tools disk, and let it rip. I mean, Zip.

[rpdre1]

The Zipper DOES do drive upgrades with mfs tools. Follow the Zipper instructions to download the instantcake CD, copy the 000001 file to the tools disk, and let it rip.

thats if you wanted to use a new drive without your recordings though if im not mistaken?

what i should of said instead of upgrade is drive copy i think.

[rbautch]

True, my mistake.

[rpdre1]

no biggie but i think you and gunny should look into that.

most ppl who would run the zipper would be intrested in doing drive copy as the first thing they do. if you do decide to integrate this, make sure you enable dma.

i cant believe i waited 5 hours for my drive without dma (didnt know at the time). i did a search in the upgrade center for hdparm and there was only a few mentions here and there. it should be in every guide lol.

[Tracy RainH2o]

Thanks for your patience everyone. I'm a portrait & wedding photographer not a computer guru. I am VERY right brained. My computer skills lie in Adobe Photoshop not Linux. :confused:

OK.............let me get this through my head.
If I want to keep my original Tivo drive intact AND keep all my recordings:

1. Copy my original drive with MFS Tools to my new drive.
2. Run The Zipper on my new drive.
3. I do not have to have the 000001 file on my tools CD because I copied my original Tivo drive to my new drive.
4. After all this is done, all future enhancements are added via the USB wireless adapter from my Windows XP computer.

[rpdre1]

Yup, what wireless usb adapter are your going to use though? The tivo's very picky with those.

[Tracy RainH2o]

Yup, what wireless usb adapter are your going to use though? The tivo's very picky with those.

I have two Linksys WUSB11 v2.8
At least I lucked up on that one. :D

Thanks again to all !!!

[rpdre1]

np,
i looked up on the other forum and i read posts with speeds around 450 KB/s (byte) with that specific linksys.

[Tormentor]

Gunnyman - Testing at logical points sure takes the challange out of troubleshooting the whole enchalada at the conclusion. ;)


rpdre1 - I did executite the hdparm commands prior to the mfsbackup. Currently restoring at about 1% per minuite.


Thanks to both of you for all of your help. And also, thaks to rbautch for making sure that we are "staying on the straight and narrow" :D


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[rbautch]

no biggie but i think you and gunny should look into that.

most ppl who would run the zipper would be intrested in doing drive copy as the first thing they do. if you do decide to integrate this, make sure you enable dma.

i cant believe i waited 5 hours for my drive without dma (didnt know at the time). i did a search in the upgrade center for hdparm and there was only a few mentions here and there. it should be in every guide lol. Not a bad idea, and easy enough to implement, but I think doing drive upgrades with hinsdale or weaknees is good practice for getting to know the basics...like what a "primary slave is". It's that kind of knowledge that's a prerequisite for using the Zipper, or else we'll start flooding the zipper discussions with basic questions that should be asked elsewhere.

[etsolow]

So the Zipper page says the HR10-250s are newly supported. Is my understanding correct that the process is identical to the "regular" DTiVos, using a brand new drive?

Eli

[Tormentor]

I have successfully used the LBA48 boot disk and mfstools to copy my programs from my original drive to my new drive. The new drive booted with any problems in my TiVo. I then returned to new drive to my PC and was able to "Zipper" without any errors. So far so good.

Now when I returned my drive to the TiVo and inserted my D-Link DWL-122 into the USB port for my wireless LAN. It boots and looks good except that I cannot connect to my TiVo. Should it respond to a PING? Ping and Telnet both fail. :(

I'm going to place my TiVo back into service until I can access the remainder of the "Zipper". I tested the DWL-122 and it works fine with my laptop.

Any hints, directions, sugesstions, comments??

T

[etsolow]

Ack, is the Tivo really this picky about USB network adapters? Jeez. Between Best Buy, Circuit City and CompUSA I wasn't able to find any of the precise (down to the version) models of network adapters recommended on Tivo's site, so I tried three different "close" matches and none of 'em worked. I'm frustrated!

[rbautch]

So the Zipper page says the HR10-250s are newly supported. Is my understanding correct that the process is identical to the "regular" DTiVos, using a brand new drive?

EliYes, exactly the same. Well, actually you could eliminate the reboot before you run the enhancement script.

[rbautch]

I have successfully used the LBA48 boot disk and mfstools to copy my programs from my original drive to my new drive. The new drive booted with any problems in my TiVo. I then returned to new drive to my PC and was able to "Zipper" without any errors. So far so good.

Now when I returned my drive to the TiVo and inserted my D-Link DWL-122 into the USB port for my wireless LAN. It boots and looks good except that I cannot connect to my TiVo. Should it respond to a PING? Ping and Telnet both fail. :(

I'm going to place my TiVo back into service until I can access the remainder of the "Zipper". I tested the DWL-122 and it works fine with my laptop.

Any hints, directions, sugesstions, comments??

T
Is the link light on? Did you reboot?

[rbautch]

Ack, is the Tivo really this picky about USB network adapters? Jeez. Between Best Buy, Circuit City and CompUSA I wasn't able to find any of the precise (down to the version) models of network adapters recommended on Tivo's site, so I tried three different "close" matches and none of 'em worked. I'm frustrated!That's because when the tivo software was written, those new adapter firmware versions weren't even a twinkle in some programmer's eye. Try Ebay. Search for "tivo usb adapter".

[etsolow]

Try Ebay. Search for "tivo usb adapter".
But... I require instant gratification, eBay is way too slow! :D

[bnm81002]

a simple question here, in the zipper instructions it says to burn the tools CD in "Joliet mode" and not "ISO9660 mode" how do I determine this? I have the Nero Express OEM version, not the full version, thanks

[etsolow]

a simple question here, in the zipper instructions it says to burn the tools CD in "Joliet mode" and not "ISO9660 mode" how do I determine this? I have the Nero Express OEM version, not the full version, thanks

Here's what it looked like for me, in Nero, and it seemed to work:

http://elisolow.com/nero.jpg

[bnm81002]

Here's what it looked like for me, in Nero, and it seemed to work:

http://elisolow.com/nero.jpg




I don't have that screen at all, my version is the OEM version of Nero

[qwertypo]

Hey... I just pressed enter in my now playing list, in order to add folders back to my list. After that, the now playlist takes about 30 seconds to load.... switching back to non-group type list, doesn't fix the problem. Has anyone seen this before?

[Tracy RainH2o]

bnm81002,

I too have the OEM version of Nero. I clicked the "Copy & Backup" icon and then the "Burn Image To Disc" option. I have all the correct files using those options.

Why this makes a difference, I do not know. I read Gunnyman telling someone to do it this way. After all, Gunnyman & rbautch are The Tivo Masters. :up: :up: :up:

[Gunnyman]

on a Mac, you have options on what type to burn.
Nero assumes you are wanting to burn for PC.

[Tormentor]

Is the link light on? Did you reboot?


The power light is on, but no Link light. This adapter works with my laptop, no problems. I know without the Link light I'm dead in the water but there isn't anything that I can do externally to help. TiVo was closer to my wireless router than the PC and then to I even moved the router right next to the TiVo. Still no link.

I've rebooted 2-3 times.

??

[rbautch]

Hey... I just pressed enter in my now playing list, in order to add folders back to my list. After that, the now playlist takes about 30 seconds to load.... switching back to non-group type list, doesn't fix the problem. Has anyone seen this before? Look for a thread entitled "empty looking now playing list".

[rbautch]

The power light is on, but no Link light. This adapter works with my laptop, no problems. I know without the Link light I'm dead in the water but there isn't anything that I can do externally to help. TiVo was closer to my wireless router than the PC and then to I even moved the router right next to the TiVo. Still no link.

I've rebooted 2-3 times.
?? Try running the zipper again, make sure ssid is correct. There's a string of network troubleshooting steps somewhere in this thread.

[etsolow]

So, I was able to find a Linksys USB100M, listed on Tivo's website as "reported to work", but it still no workey. I can't get a link light, and of course can't ping/telnet/etc. I have the serial connection working so I have a bash prompt, and I've tried installing the enhancements for the USB 2.0 drivers, and then using the WUSB11 ver 4.0, still no go.

In both cases I see a message like "usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x13b1/0xb) is not claimed by any active driver"

Anyone have any ideas to get this working?

EDIT - Some additional notes:
HDVR2, used the $5 boot disk and Instantcake image on a new 250GB drive. Zippering went fine, no errors. Enhancements installed via serial/bash seem fine, I see the new bootup logo, etc... just can't get any kind of networking to work. I can ping the static assigned IP address from the bash prompt and it replies. The network/cable/port are all tested good, work fine with my laptop.

[qwertypo]

Look for a thread entitled "empty looking now playing list".
Wow... thats a laugh, couldn't find it for the longest time, its "empty looking NPL" For future searchs.

So it turns out, that once I realized the cuase was related to waiting for DNS to timeout, I reconnected my ethernet cable, and it works again. Go figure. Is there a contest for the most mistakes made during installation of the zipper? I hope it has a cash price.

I had disconnected my ethernet for some wiring that needs to be done, didn't think it would cause a prob.

[Gunnyman]

dude you aren't even CLOSE :p
ok to be fair it's not the zipper but the Unguide thread.
I still have bruises on my forehead from banging it on my desk :p

[Tormentor]

Try running the zipper again, make sure ssid is correct. There's a string of network troubleshooting steps somewhere in this thread.


OK.

I cracked back open my TiVo and rerun the zipper instructions. This time I noticed (funny what a little sleep will alow you to do) that when the script "zipper.sh" was running I got the message..

cp: /cdrom/rbautch-files.tgz: No such file or directory

I found that on my CD the file was named "rbautch_files.tgz" NOT rbautch-files.tgz as the script needed.

I proceeded to change the file name to match the script and was successful in running it this time.

I restored my drive to TiVo and still no network connection. Reran zipper. Still no link light :mad:

I had this great idea, not really knowing if it would work or not but...

I skipped the telnet connection and started zipper with step N. while the drive was in my PC. I figure the worst would happen is that I'd have to reload EVERYTHING!

An interesting thing happened. When I ran the tweak.sh I get an error ... Cannot open archive /enhancements/rbautch_files.tgz: No such file or diectory...

Looks like I changed the file name when I really needed to change the zipper.sh. I don't have any experience with script files can someone take a look at this and let me know if I'm on to something?

Oh, I got all the files from http://www.mastersav.com/tivo_zipper.html website or the links from that page.

[Gunnyman]

So, I was able to find a Linksys USB100M, listed on Tivo's website as "reported to work", but it still no workey. I can't get a link light, and of course can't ping/telnet/etc. I have the serial connection working so I have a bash prompt, and I've tried installing the enhancements for the USB 2.0 drivers, and then using the WUSB11 ver 4.0, still no go.

In both cases I see a message like "usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x13b1/0xb) is not claimed by any active driver"

Anyone have any ideas to get this working?

EDIT - Some additional notes:
HDVR2, used the $5 boot disk and Instantcake image on a new 250GB drive. Zippering went fine, no errors. Enhancements installed via serial/bash seem fine, I see the new bootup logo, etc... just can't get any kind of networking to work. I can ping the static assigned IP address from the bash prompt and it replies. The network/cable/port are all tested good, work fine with my laptop.
Sorry to say the network dongles and Dtivos are such a crapshoot.
I'm starting to thing Tivo should just take all the adapters except teh Netgear FA120 off of thier list.
This might sound stupid but have you tried the other USB port or the tivo?

[rbautch]

The tools disk was fixed a few days ago with the correct name of the archive. Download a fresh copy and rerun the Zipper. You have to reboot before the network settings take effect.

[etsolow]

Yeah. I've tried both USB ports. *sigh*

I've exhausted the computer stores in town, so I guess my next step will be to order an FA120 online. Wish me luck -- so much for instant gratification!

[Tormentor]

The tools disk was fixed a few days ago with the correct name of the archive. Download a fresh copy and rerun the Zipper. You have to reboot before the network settings take effect.


Just my luck :rolleyes: I must have downloaded the file just prior to the changes.

While I'm burning another disk, can I run zipper step N while the drive is still in my PC?

Just wanting to activate it while I'm waiting on some other USB ethernet solution.

[qwertypo]

Is it possible to recover old recordings from my OG drive, and put them on my New Zippered drive? or

Should I zipper my OG drive, and add my new drive a second drive?

Is there a way, or are they all gone?

Thank you.

[rbautch]

Just my luck :rolleyes: I must have downloaded the file just prior to the changes.

While I'm burning another disk, can I run zipper step N while the drive is still in my PC?

Just wanting to activate it while I'm waiting on some other USB ethernet solution.Nope. Most of it will fail, because it depends on tivosh, which only fires up on the Tivo.

[Tormentor]

Nope. Most of it will fail, because it depends on tivosh, which only fires up on the Tivo.

Thanks.

I guess that I'll order another USB adapter and wait until it arrives before I can enable the hacks. Correct?


T

[bnm81002]

bnm81002,

I too have the OEM version of Nero. I clicked the "Copy & Backup" icon and then the "Burn Image To Disc" option. I have all the correct files using those options.

Why this makes a difference, I do not know. I read Gunnyman telling someone to do it this way. After all, Gunnyman & rbautch are The Tivo Masters. :up: :up: :up:





I have the OEM version of Nero Express, I don't have the Nero Burning ROM at all, so what you suggested doesn't work for me, but thanks anyway

[tonydi]

Does your OEM Nero have Nero SmartStart? That's where you'll find the Copy and Burn CD section. You'll probably have to use the little horizontal scroll bar to see the Burn Image to Disc item.

[bnm81002]

Does your OEM Nero have Nero SmartStart? That's where you'll find the Copy and Burn CD section. You'll probably have to use the little horizontal scroll bar to see the Burn Image to Disc item.


no I don't, all I have is the Nero Express OEM Suite version, no Nero version at all, this software came with the Lite-On combo drive(CD-RW-DVD-ROM drive), I guess I'll write(burn) the tools disk by copying it onto the combo drive through "My Computer" in Windows, hopefully that will work :o
my computer > local disk (C:) > tools disk folder > file and folder tasks > copy this folder > DVD/CD-RW drive (D:) > copy > CD writing tasks > write these files to CD
that's how I figure to burn the Tools disk to a CD

[GaryD9]

At work, and up to post 903 in this thread - figured I'd post now before I have to get "real" work done instead of reading TCF...

Installed zipper on a HDVR2 two nights ago. All appeared to go well. (FA120... 160GB drive that has been only used for 137 for 2 years now...) Wonderful script. One issue I noticed:

Appears that cron rebooted the tivo last night, but when it came back up, it left the root drive in rw. I manually remounted it to ro, but it appears that this should have been taken care of in the author file. Thoughts?

And an outright question: The "Tivo_Zipper" instructions page has some information that seems a bit confusing. At the top, it says HR10-250 is supported. Then Step1 is to obtain a 6.2 image. PTV doesn't appear to have a 6.2 image for this particular unit (and the newest I've been able to find there is 3.1.xxx) So, is there a 6.2 for the HDTivo floating around someplace? (For that matter, and a bit off topic, is there ANY version for the HR10-250 that supports folders/groups, etc?)

Thanks again for the work
Gary

[rpdre1]

And an outright question: The "Tivo_Zipper" instructions page has some information that seems a bit confusing. At the top, it says HR10-250 is supported. Then Step1 is to obtain a 6.2 image. PTV doesn't appear to have a 6.2 image for this particular unit (and the newest I've been able to find there is 3.1.xxx) So, is there a 6.2 for the HDTivo floating around someplace? (For that matter, and a bit off topic, is there ANY version for the HR10-250 that supports folders/groups, etc?)


you're right, but to quickly answer your question, there's no 6.2 for the hdtivo yet. there might be hope for directv to release it in the future because at CES 2005 directv had hr10-250's on display running a beta 6.2.

you could use 3.15f image in place of the 6.2 image for that step.

originally the zipper didnt support the hr10-250 but later it did and the instructions weren't updated to reflect that. now that rbautch sees this, im sure he'll fix it.

[etsolow]

Would the 6.2 image for an HDVR2 work on an HR10-250?

[rbautch]

No.

[rbautch]

At work, and up to post 903 in this thread - figured I'd post now before I have to get "real" work done instead of reading TCF...

Installed zipper on a HDVR2 two nights ago. All appeared to go well. (FA120... 160GB drive that has been only used for 137 for 2 years now...) Wonderful script. One issue I noticed:

Appears that cron rebooted the tivo last night, but when it came back up, it left the root drive in rw. I manually remounted it to ro, but it appears that this should have been taken care of in the author file. Thoughts?

And an outright question: The "Tivo_Zipper" instructions page has some information that seems a bit confusing. At the top, it says HR10-250 is supported. Then Step1 is to obtain a 6.2 image. PTV doesn't appear to have a 6.2 image for this particular unit (and the newest I've been able to find there is 3.1.xxx) So, is there a 6.2 for the HDTivo floating around someplace? (For that matter, and a bit off topic, is there ANY version for the HR10-250 that supports folders/groups, etc?)

Thanks again for the work
Gary Kudos on doing your homework before starting. Try rebooting again to see if it still comes up rw. You're right about the HR10 and the instructions. I'll fix them this week.

[GaryD9]

Kudos on doing your homework before starting. Try rebooting again to see if it still comes up rw. You're right about the HR10 and the instructions. I'll fix them this week.
Finally through all 1800+ posts. Ugh.

I'll try rebooting again tonight (according to TWP, wife is watching something right now.. )

As for the HR10, and trying to summarize everything I've seen in this thread:

Does NOT use (nor require) 6.2 software (but still uses 3.1 software)

Because of this, the following features can't be enabled: MRV, HMO, Folders, and the 6.2speed increase.

(In other words, the reason to run 'zipper' on an HDirecTivo would only be for callerID, networking (FA120), TWP, 30sec skip, backdoors, and so that things can work with the un-mentionable server that starts with the letter 't', and ends with the word 'server'.)

Is this correct, or did I miss something?

Thanks

(edit to add TWP to the list of things working)
(edit to add 30-sec skip + backdoors)
Gary

[rpdre1]

actually, version 3 added hdtivo patches for permanent 30 sec skip.
also disables encryption (you will have to unscramble the pre-zipper recordings to use letter t+server), menu sort, enables backdoors.

[RMH2020]

First, let me add my thanks to Gunnyman and Rbautch and many others for great work and support in making the upgrade/hacking process so much easier for most of us.

I've been running a zippered DTiVo for a couple weeks now and almost everything has been working great.

The only issue bugging me right now is not being able to Buy and Record future PPV programs. I have searched the forums for several days to try to find an answer or even understand this situation, but I'm not finding anything useful.

At one time, it seemed a hack called noppv was included in the superpatch, but it is not clear if it is still in superpatch-67all-NutKase-1.1 or if the functionality is included in some other element of Zipper or Tweak or other file set. From the description of noppv, it sounds like that is what is causing what I am seeing. However, I don't see noppv anywhere in the files I can look at.

Any ideas on how to correct this or where to look for the answer.

Thanks a bunch!

[GaryD9]

Kudos on doing your homework before starting. Try rebooting again to see if it still comes up rw. You're right about the HR10 and the instructions. I'll fix them this week.Right after a reboot, while it's pulling sat info:

gdezern@server ~ $ telnet 192.168.0.10
Trying 192.168.0.10...
Connected to 192.168.0.10.
Escape character is '^]'.
refurb-TiVo# uptime
00:05:37 up 3 min, load average: 2.24, 1.06, 0.40
refurb-TiVo# mount
/dev/hda4 on / type ext2 (rw)
/dev/hda9 on /var type ext2 (rw)
/proc on /proc type proc (rw)
refurb-TiVo#
Not sure why this is happening, as the author file remounts as ro after running network.tcl. Hmm.. lemme get rid of that block in the script (the remount to rw, running of network.tcl, and remount to ro) and try again...

[GaryD9]

Hmm.. lemme get rid of that block in the script (the remount to rw, running of network.tcl, and remount to ro) and try again...
That fixed it. I wonder if that should be automated somehow... My WAG is that tivosh still has the file "network.tcl" open when the command to remount to read-only is run... and the remount fails because of that. I don't think ext2 (or the 2.4 linux kernel) supports lazy remounts...

[GaryD9]

Okay, with that resolved (for me), I'm curious about a couple things:

Why does the enchancement script go through so much work to PREVENT the dtivo from phoning home? I'd think that the worst that would happen would be that the dtivo would pick up a couple of certs for MRV and HMO - but it should be easy enough to automatically nuke those every now and then...

The reason I ask is - NCID is useless without the phone line, and forcing a 3am(CST) reboot (which is 6am EST) just happens to be near the same time that one of the kiddie shows my daughter loves comes on... So either I give up NCID - or tell my two year old daughter that she can't have something. (Yes, I AM wrapped around her little finger.) I suppose I could find/fix the crontab entry for the rebooting - but I'd rather not have tivo rebooting twice a week at all. This thing is CONSTANTLY recording stuff.

[Dan Collins]

First, 3AM CST is 4AM EST (only one hour time difference between Central and Eastern time).

If you want to change the reboot time, you can adjust it in the /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root file. There time is in UT, so add 5 hours to the desired time.

Finally, there are static routes in the Zipper script that will stop certificate downloads. The main reason you don't want the TiVo dialing (besides the annoyance of it pickup the phone all the time) is that tcphonehome sometimes fails to close the modem, rendering NCID inoperative until you reboot.

[yankeestom]

Pulled my drive, ran Zipper, reinstalled and rebooted, and everything looked fine until I tried to use the remote. No response to any buttons, and the light on the front of the unit does not brighten when I press buttons like it did before. I opened it back up and removed and reseated the cable that goes from the motherboard to the front panel (on the motherboard end of the cable), and it seems like the connection is good. But I can't get to the panel end to check it; are there screws somewhere I'm not seeing? How to I get in to check that end of the cable? And is there anything else I should be checking besides that cable?

Thanks in advance for any help.

[austin61]

Pulled my drive, ran Zipper, reinstalled and rebooted, and everything looked fine until I tried to use the remote. No response to any buttons, and the light on the front of the unit does not brighten when I press buttons like it did before. I opened it back up and removed and reseated the cable that goes from the motherboard to the front panel (on the motherboard end of the cable), and it seems like the connection is good. But I can't get to the panel end to check it; are there screws somewhere I'm not seeing? How to I get in to check that end of the cable? And is there anything else I should be checking besides that cable?

Thanks in advance for any help.Was the cable going to the front panel "either slightly or completely removed from the motherboard" during power up? If so you could have this issue

http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?t=105719

[yankeestom]

Was the cable going to the front panel "either slightly or completely removed from the motherboard" during power up? If so you could have this issue

http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?t=105719

Yep, that must be what happened. Thanks for the link; I'll try the "wait 15 minutes and try again" trick, and if that doesn't work I'll break out the soldering iron.

Thanks again for the assist.

[Arcady]

Pulled my drive, ran Zipper, reinstalled and rebooted, and everything looked fine until I tried to use the remote. No response to any buttons, and the light on the front of the unit does not brighten when I press buttons like it did before. I opened it back up and removed and reseated the cable that goes from the motherboard to the front panel (on the motherboard end of the cable), and it seems like the connection is good. But I can't get to the panel end to check it; are there screws somewhere I'm not seeing? How to I get in to check that end of the cable? And is there anything else I should be checking besides that cable?

Thanks in advance for any help.

I took pictures of how to get the front panel off in case you need to check the other end of the cable. Here's a link to my post about it: http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?p=3445157&&#post3445157

[dcorbell]

I've got the SIR4120 and the Linksys WUSB12, which by all counts is a working card. I turned off the WEP on my WRT54G, which is set to mixed mode. Got the CD with the correct kernel from the ptvupgrade site (bought the cd), ran the zipper script. Everything copied successfully.

I correctly entered my IP information and I can't get connected to the network. I've tested the WUSB12 and it works properly. I get the power light when I put it in the tivo, but no link light. Ever.

Should this setup be working? Do I need to connect with a wired adapter first, then setup the wireless? Is it just a bum card, and I should try something else?

Any help would be very, very, appreciated.

[Greencat]

Anyone know what needs to be done to a Stand Alone tivo so that it can MRV with a Dtivo?

[Gunnyman]

it needs to be hacked with killhdinitrd (or a prom mod) then have super patch run on it.

[rbautch]

I've got the SIR4120 and the Linksys WUSB12, which by all counts is a working card. I turned off the WEP on my WRT54G, which is set to mixed mode. Got the CD with the correct kernel from the ptvupgrade site (bought the cd), ran the zipper script. Everything copied successfully.

I correctly entered my IP information and I can't get connected to the network. I've tested the WUSB12 and it works properly. I get the power light when I put it in the tivo, but no link light. Ever.

Should this setup be working? Do I need to connect with a wired adapter first, then setup the wireless? Is it just a bum card, and I should try something else?

Any help would be very, very, appreciated.Your setup should work fine. Confirm that you rebooted so the wireless settings take effect. If still no luck, connect with your wired adapter, open TWP, choose MFS from the main menu, then choose state, then network, then post your setting here. Depending on if you have the latest version of the Zipper, you could also run tivosh /enhancements/net-status.tcl, which would give you the same stats.

[Greencat]

it needs to be hacked with killhdinitrd (or a prom mod) then have super patch run on it.
Do you know of any guides. This is for someone at my work and this is his first hack. I told him how he could get a cheap Dtivo and use it as a video server from his SA tivo.

[GaryD9]

The main reason you don't want the TiVo dialing (besides the annoyance of it pickup the phone all the time) is that tcphonehome sometimes fails to close the modem, rendering NCID inoperative until you reboot.So if a person wants to leave their dtivo plugged into the phone line, and doesn't use NCID, then it's "safe" to leave the phone line plugged in? (Reason I'm asking like that is that I got the impression that letting a hacked dtivo phone home was a Bad Thing.)

rbautch, I'm going to whip up a small shell script to alter how the tivo reboot works:

(script would be run by cron, of course, daily at a given time.)

If tivo has rebooted in the last 3 days, do nothing.

If tivo has rebooted in the last 5 days, safe reboot (reboot only if nothing is being recorded)

If tivo hasn't rebooted in the last 5 days (and this is day six), reboot regardless of what might be recording.

This would give tivo a 3 day window to reboot if something isn't recording, and then it only forces the reboot if it's at the 6th day (as fakecall sets the callback for +7days)

If I get around to doing this (probably tonight, depending on the Chaos of my home) do you want a copy for inclusion with the rest of your scripts (and zipper, of course)?

[Gunnyman]

Do you know of any guides. This is for someone at my work and this is his first hack. I told him how he could get a cheap Dtivo and use it as a video server from his SA tivo.
it all depends on what model standalone he has.
If its a newer tcd 54x series he's got a LOT of work ahead.

[obe1]

I’m wanting to Zipper my Hughes DVR80 with my new EIDE WD250g. I’m ok until Tools CD prompts me to install my PTV image. It reports that my hard drive C is read only. I thought PTV Tools CD took care of that. So how do I prepare my WD250 to accept my image? Thanks in advance.

[Greencat]

Just guessing but I think you are mounting the wrong drive.

[etsolow]

Sorry to say the network dongles and Dtivos are such a crapshoot.
I'm starting to thing Tivo should just take all the adapters except teh Netgear FA120 off of thier list.
OK, I had a Netgear FA120 overnighted to me, and it's waiting for me at home right now. If it doesn't fix all my (Tivo-networking-related) problems, I'm throwing the Tivos out the window! ;)

E

[rbautch]

That fixed it. I wonder if that should be automated somehow... My WAG is that tivosh still has the file "network.tcl" open when the command to remount to read-only is run... and the remount fails because of that. I don't think ext2 (or the 2.4 linux kernel) supports lazy remounts... The latest version of the script has code to remove the lines in your author file that run the network script. The way it works is that the first time you boot your newly Zippered drive, the network.tcl script runs, which puts your IP setting in MFS. Then you reboot, and run the enhancement script. The enhancement script detects a zipper flag, and automatically searches through your author file for the commands that run the network script, and deletes those lines on the fly. This ensures that if you someday decide to change your IP settings, they wont be reset to the ones you set with the Zipper everytime you reboot.

[rbautch]

it needs to be hacked with killhdinitrd (or a prom mod) then have super patch run on it. Zipper support for standalones is next on the agenda.

[rbautch]

So if a person wants to leave their dtivo plugged into the phone line, and doesn't use NCID, then it's "safe" to leave the phone line plugged in? (Reason I'm asking like that is that I got the impression that letting a hacked dtivo phone home was a Bad Thing.)

rbautch, I'm going to whip up a small shell script to alter how the tivo reboot works:

(script would be run by cron, of course, daily at a given time.)

If tivo has rebooted in the last 3 days, do nothing.

If tivo has rebooted in the last 5 days, safe reboot (reboot only if nothing is being recorded)

If tivo hasn't rebooted in the last 5 days (and this is day six), reboot regardless of what might be recording.

This would give tivo a 3 day window to reboot if something isn't recording, and then it only forces the reboot if it's at the 6th day (as fakecall sets the callback for +7days)

If I get around to doing this (probably tonight, depending on the Chaos of my home) do you want a copy for inclusion with the rest of your scripts (and zipper, of course)? Iteresting idea. Take a look at the start.sh script (the main enhancement script) to see how I handle the user choice between smart reboot and forced reboots. If you make it easy for me, I'll include it in the enhancement script. How will you determine the last reboot date?

[rocketman24]

Just a quick FYI.

If you are running 2 zippered tivos on your network, you'll want to comment out "ncidd" on one of them. It seems that caller ID will not work on both if you have 2 ncidd's (Caller ID Servers) running on the same network.

On the box you comment out NCIDD, look for the ncid.conf file and modify it to point to the IP address of the tivo running the ncidd server.

In fact, only the one running the server needs the phone line plugged in.

I rebooted after making this change. Works like a champ!

For what it's worth!

[BigPapa1975]

:confused: I am a complete newbie at the HDTivos. I currently have an HR10-250. Is it possible for 6.2 to run on this unit? If so, has anyone had success using the Zipper?

Sorry for the ingorant nature of the post, I'm just really confused about what I can do with this unit. Basically, All I really want is to be able to get folder support in my "Now Playing" list. The Networking stuff would be great at some point, too.

Thanks in advance to anyone who can help me out!

[Gunnyman]

6.2 won't run on the HDTivo YET ;) so, sorry no folders.

[GaryD9]

Iteresting idea. Take a look at the start.sh script (the main enhancement script) to see how I handle the user choice between smart reboot and forced reboots. If you make it easy for me, I'll include it in the enhancement script. How will you determine the last reboot date?I'm scraping something up now. the busybox version of 'find' is kinda crippled, so I'm working around that.

Here's a mechanism:

Last (or first) line of "/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit.author":
touch /var/some_special_directory_thats_empty/rebooted

Then the following script, spawned by crond once a day at 3:47:56am (or at the same time of day the current reboot stuff works.)
#
#if no reboot for OVER 5 days (ie: for 6 days) then FORCE the reboot
#
if [ ! -z "`find /var/some_special_directory_thats_empty -mtime +5 -name rebooted`" ]; then
echo force reboot stuff here
#
# if no reboot for OVER 2 days (ie: for 3+ days) then reboot if not recording
#
elif [ ! -z "`find /var/some_special_directory_thats_empty -mtime +2 -name rebooted`" ]; then
echo safe reboot stuff here
else
echo no reboot needed
fi


Actually, I should reverse the logic to check for no reboot needed (file is LESS than 3 days mtime) first, so as to prevent the extra 'find' calls for the most likely situation. I'll fix it up some later (daughter needs me atm) and post

[GaryD9]

Revised to check 'no reboot' conditions first:

#
# if 'rebooted' is LESS THEN 4 days old, no reboot at all
#
if [ ! -z "`find /var/some_special_directory_thats_empty -mtime -4 -name rebooted`" ]; then
echo no reboot
#
# if 'rebooted' is 4 or 5 days old (less then 6) then reboot if nothing being recorded
#
elif [ ! -z "`find /var/some_special_directory_thats_empty -mtime -6 -name rebooted`" ]; then
echo safe reboot stuff here
#
# if you get here, then either 'rebooted' doesn't exist, or its 6 or more days old.
else
echo FORCED reboot stuff here
fi

A bit of explanation on what I'm doing here: The 'busybox' versions of most programs is very limited. Normally, for this, I'd find the specific file and pass an -exec parameter on finding it. ie: find -name xxx -exec reboot \{\}\; (Which would run the command 'reboot xxx' if it found a file called xxx - the xxx stuff would be ignored by reboot...) Failing that, I'd run commands and use the shell to check the errorlevel. To my surprise, the busybox version of 'find' returns a '0' errorlevel REGARDLESS of finding a file or not. So, the final way of dealing with it is to run 'find' letting it print anything it finds. Then I use the shell to test if the string that 'find' sends to stdout is empty or not. If its NOT empty, then the file specified was found....

For info on 'find' parameters as provided by busybox, check "find --help" on your tivo shell.

BTW, the best possible use for The Zipper on a dtivo box:

Wife is home and the DirecTV tech comes to check reported low signal levels. I'm at work (over an hour away) and ssh into my home box, and then from there telnet into the tivo... My wife calls me and leaves the speaker phone on (while I mute my end... this is just so I can hear what the tech is doing.) Then, when he's checking the cables (wiggling them, really) on the back of the directivo, I run the following command on the tivo shell:

echo 'Ouch! How'd you like it if I yanked YOUR cord?!' | /var/hack/bin/out2osd

[Gunnyman]

Very geeky and COOL way to use your hacked Tivo :D

[GaryD9]

Hmm.. anyone know a way to, from the tivo shell, simulate remote control commands? For example, pause the current 'live tv' show. It might be a neat option for the NCID to pause whatever is on when the phone rings...

(Then again, that might cause issues or confusion if no one was actually watching the television at the time...)

[obe1]

You were right! Thanks.

[Gunnyman]

Hmm.. anyone know a way to, from the tivo shell, simulate remote control commands? For example, pause the current 'live tv' show. It might be a neat option for the NCID to pause whatever is on when the phone rings...

(Then again, that might cause issues or confusion if no one was actually watching the television at the time...)

Not anymore
sendkey was taken out of 6.2

[rocketman24]

Not anymore, sendkey was taken out of 6.2
Just curious, how is it that you can do the 30 second skip without sendkey? I have not really looked into the code, but I'm just assuming that some "sendkey" mechanism is needed.

[Gunnyman]

the backdoor code S-P-S-3-0-S is hard coded into the superpatch modified tivoapp.

[etsolow]

Well... Netgear FA120 = SUCCESS!! :D

A couple notes from my experience:

1. Apparently the "usb device not claimed by any active driver" message doesn't mean anything. I still get it now with everything working.

2. After re-imaging from scratch, re-zippering and installing the FA120, I *still* couldn't get a link light. Even though I had tested with my laptop to make sure the switch port and cable were good, I swapped out the switch... nothing. Then I swapped the cable... and I was able to get a link light! Go figure. I'm almost tempted to go see if any of those other USB dongles work now... *almost*.

3. The Zipper script appears to assume a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0 - I use 255.255.0.0 and therefore even after getting physical connectivity, I had to do some monkeying around to be able to telnet in or see TWP. Any chance the script could prompt for subnet mask?

That's all I've got. Thanks for all your hard work and extra help in this thread!

E

[tonydi]

Ran Zipper on a box stock 6.2 HDVR2 and it all completed successfully. Running the tweak script I got to the question about the channel logos and I answered y. It said it was loading the channel logo slices and would take a minute, but it's been about 30 mins and it's just sitting there.

Now what?

ETA....well, I guess 40 mins is more than a minute, but the script is back prompting me for more info so hopefully I'm good to go!

[tonydi]

Doesn't look like that long delay loading the channel logos was a good sign. Here's a copy of the session from shortly after that point....


==========
Do you want to install USB 2.0 drivers for increased speed of
MRV tranfers and video extraction? [y/n]: y
/enhancements/start.sh: /enhancements/usb20_flag: Read-only file system
Backing up old driver(s) to /lib/modules/backups, installing new drivers...
mkdir: cannot make directory `/lib/modules/backups-orig': Read-only file system
cp: cannot create regular file `/lib/modules/drivers2.4.20.tgz': Read-only file
Couldn't find usb 2.0 drivers. Skipping installation...

Do you have Tivowebplus already installed? [y/n]: n
Do you want to install Tivowebplus? [y/n]: y
installing Tivowebplus plus several awesome modules, including...
Channelprefs, Batch Play, Netconfig, Backup, and Manual Record...
/enhancements/start.sh: /enhancements/TWPrunc.sh: Read-only file system
/enhancements/start.sh: /enhancements/TWPrunc.sh: Read-only file system
/enhancements/start.sh: /enhancements/TWPrun.sh: Read-only file system
/enhancements/start.sh: /enhancements/TWPrun.sh: Read-only file system
chmod: /enhancements/TWPrun.sh: No such file or directory
chmod: /enhancements/TWPrunc.sh: No such file or directory
Installing TWP in /var/hack...
mv: cannot remove `/enhancements/TWP_archive.tgz': Read-only file system
Appending your rc.sysinit.author file to run TWP on startup
/enhancements/start.sh: /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit.author: Read-only file system
/enhancements/start.sh: /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit.author: Read-only file system
/enhancements/start.sh: /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit.author: Read-only file system
/enhancements/start.sh: /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit.author: Read-only file system
/enhancements/start.sh: /enhancements/TWP_flag: Read-only file system

Existing fakecall detected in /busybox, backing up and replacing...
mv: cannot move `/busybox/fakecall.tcl' to `/busybox/fakecall.bak': Read-only file system
cp: cannot create regular file `/busybox/fakecall.tcl': Read-only file system
Running updated fakecall now....
Inside fakecall 4.x+
done with fakecall

appending fakecall.tcl to log entries in CRONLOG-MAIN...
/enhancements/start.sh: /busybox/fakecall.tcl: Read-only file system
/enhancements/start.sh: /busybox/fakecall.tcl: Read-only file system
/enhancements/start.sh: /busybox/fakecall.tcl: Read-only file system
/enhancements/start.sh: /busybox/fakecall.tcl: Read-only file system
/enhancements/start.sh: /busybox/fakecall.tcl: Read-only file system
/enhancements/start.sh: /busybox/fakecall.tcl: Read-only file system
/enhancements/start.sh: /busybox/fakecall.tcl: Read-only file system
/enhancements/start.sh: /enhancements/fakelog_flag: Read-only file system

Do you want to install cron for improved performance/logging/backups? [y/n] :y
/enhancements/start.sh: /enhancements/cron_flag: Read-only file system
Existing crond binary detected, replacing...
rm: /busybox/crond: Read-only file system
mv: replace `/busybox/crond', overriding mode 0777? y
mv: cannot move `/enhancements/crond' to `/busybox/crond': Read-only file system
Creating user definitions...
/enhancements/start.sh: /etc/passwd: Read-only file system
/enhancements/start.sh: /etc/group: Read-only file system
Creating required cron directories...
mkdir: cannot create directory `/enhancements/varhacks/spool': Read-only file system
mkdir: cannot create directory `/enhancements/varhacks/spool': Read-only file system
copying the crondtab where crond expects it
cp: cannot create regular file `/enhancements/varhacks/spool/cron/crontabs/root' no such file or directory
touch: /enhancements/varhacks/spool/cron/crontabs/root: No such file or directory
appending your rc.sysinit.author file to run crond on startup
/enhancements/start.sh: /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit.author: Read-only file system
/enhancements/start.sh: /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit.author: Read-only file system
/enhancements/start.sh: /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit.author: Read-only file system
/enhancements/start.sh: /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit.author: Read-only file system
/enhancements/start.sh: /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit.author: Read-only file system

Do you want weekly reboots to only occur if no programs are recording?
Enter n if you plan to leave a phone line connected for callerID, etc [y/n]: y
Appending crontab to run safereboot every Sunday and Wednesday at 3:25am CST...
/enhancements/start.sh: /enhancements/varhacks/spool/cron/crontabs/root: No such file or directory
/enhancements/start.sh: /enhancements/varhacks/spool/cron/crontabs/root: No such file or directory
/enhancements/start.sh: /enhancements/varhacks/spool/cron/crontabs/root: No such file or directory
/enhancements/start.sh: /enhancements/varhacks/spool/cron/crontabs/root: No such file or directory
/enhancements/start.sh: /enhancements/varhacks/spool/cron/crontabs/root: No such file or directory
/enhancements/start.sh: /enhancements/varhacks/spool/cron/crontabs/root: No such file or directory

Do you want to archive your logs every week before wiping them? [y/n]: y
/enhancements/start.sh: /enhancements/varhacks/spool/cron/crontabs/root: No such file or directory
Appending crontab to tarball logs every week and store them in root...
/enhancements/start.sh: /enhancements/varhacks/spool/cron/crontabs/root: No such file or directory
/enhancements/start.sh: /enhancements/varhacks/spool/cron/crontabs/root: No such file or directory
/enhancements/start.sh: /enhancements/varhacks/spool/cron/crontabs/root: No such file or directory
/enhancements/start.sh: /enhancements/varhacks/spool/cron/crontabs/root: No such file or directory
/enhancements/start.sh: /enhancements/varhacks/spool/cron/crontabs/root: No such file or directory

Do you want to automatically make weekly backups of your season passes? [y/n]: y
Cron installation is needed for this feature and was not found. Skipping automatic seasonpass backups...

Do you want to make a backup of your season passes and wishlists right now? [y/n] n
Skipping instant backup...

Do you want to remove HMO/MRV expiration certificates? This cant
hurt, and is necessary if you received 6.2 from a Tivo download. [y/n]: y
Starting cert-remover.tcl...

Running rbautch HMO/MRV certificate remover...
Searching /State/Keyring for HMO/MRV Keys...

Found the following objects in /State/Keyring:

fsid ObjectName
----- ----------
2249742 BACKHAUL_PRIVATE-20000226
2249743 BACKHAUL_PUBLIC-20000226
2249744 BACKHAUL_THUMB-20000226
2249741 SOFTWARE-199801
2984319 SP_4-production-5-13114-180-A-13294-A-13294-A

Deleting: SP_4-production-5-13114-180-A-13294-A-13294-A
2984320 SP_5-production-2-13114-180-A-13294-A-13294-A

Deleting: SP_5-production-2-13114-180-A-13294-A-13294-A
3056909 TIVOVID_2-12000-32767-00000000

HMO/MRV expiration certificates successfully removed...


Do you want Showcases and Yellow Stars? [y/n]: n
starting sc62remove.tcl...
Found existing showcase tokens in the /State/ServiceConfig/DataGroupList...
Showcase tokens removed successfully!

Installing symlinks to keep hacks out of /var...
creating symlinks for hacks in /enhancements/varhacks/hack
symlinking /enhancements/varhacks/hack/bin to /var/hack
creating symlinks for hacks in /enhancements/varhacks/hack/bin
symlinking /enhancements/varhacks/hack/bin/out2osd to /var/hack/bin
symlinking /enhancements/varhacks/hack/doc to /var/hack
creating symlinks for hacks in /enhancements/varhacks/hack/doc
symlinking /enhancements/varhacks/hack/doc/out2osd to /var/hack/doc
symlinking /enhancements/varhacks/hack/etc to /var/hack
creating symlinks for hacks in /enhancements/varhacks/hack/etc
symlinking /enhancements/varhacks/hack/etc/out2osd.conf to /var/hack/etc
symlinking /enhancements/varhacks/hack/share to /var/hack
creating symlinks for hacks in /enhancements/varhacks/hack/share
symlinking /enhancements/varhacks/hack/share/fonts to /var/hack/share
/enhancements/start.sh: /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit.author: Read-only file system
/enhancements/start.sh: /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit.author: Read-only file system
/enhancements/start.sh: /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit.author: Read-only file system
/enhancements/start.sh: /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit.author: Read-only file system
/enhancements/start.sh: /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit.author: Read-only file system
/enhancements/start.sh: /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit.author: Read-only file system

Enhancement Installation Complete!! Please reboot now...

Do you want to continue? [y/n]: y

bash-2.02#
==============

What should I do at this point?

[msu72]

Need some advice.
Bought Weaknees barebones DSR7000. Got 250 GB drive, used Zipper. Up and running just fine..
Discovered bad Sat input.
Weaknees sent replacement unit.
Swapped zippered drive and card to new unit.
Called DTV and they "married" card to new tivo.
Tivo functions reported hardware problem that needed attention.
Rebooted. No help.
Cleared and Deleted everything.
Now Tivo functions work but HMO problematic. Can see other Tivos but won't allow program transfer. Says it is not enabled. Other Tivos see this one but it is listed by last four digits of serial number, not by assigned name.
No TWP. No telnet. Haven't tried serial cable to see if I can get a bash.
Any suggestions?

[etsolow]

6.2 won't run on the HDTivo YET ;) so, sorry no folders.
Hmm, so now I'm wondering if I should wait a bit before doing my HDTivo...! If I was going to wait, I wonder how long it'd be!

[Gunnyman]

well 6.2 has been out for what 6-9 months and we don't have it on HD units yet.

[RMH2020]

"The only issue bugging me right now is not being able to Buy and Record future PPV programs. I have searched the forums for several days to try to find an answer or even understand this situation, but I'm not finding anything useful."


Not sure if this subject is taboo or supposed to be so obvious that no one wants to comment, but...

I accidentally figured out a way around this. Maybe this is documented somewhere, but I couldn't find it. I found that when selecting a future PPV program I can select "Season Pass and other options" that will take me to a screen where I can then select "Buy and Record". This satisfies my desire to record PPV programs later in the day or evening and watch them some other time, so I am happy with things as they are now.

[Penyles]

First,
Thank you, GunnyMan & rbautch for all you help.

Is there any reason not to run the Zipper on a tivo that has already been mod. with the "Unguide"? At the moment I already have the drive out trying to recover it to another drive. DD_Rescue is taking a very long time.

I was wondering, How much does the USB 2.0 drivers help when transfering from one Dtivo to another? I thought the series2 boxes had USB 1.1.

Thanks
Penyles

[kwaapia]

Folks:

new to this thread. Great work. I have been lurking for awhile and getting ready to apply the tools here. i downloaded all software, got cds and hard drive and was ready to go this afternoon when i realised i may have purchased the wrong type of drive for my system.

I have a phillips dsr708 directivo. I bought the seagate 250g SATA drive. when i popped my pc open to install it, i realized i have only PATA type cables. The SATA drive wouldn't fit.

The i realized i didnt know the type of drive in my dsr708 system. Can someone put me out of my misery? what drives are you guys using? PATA or SATA....and if it is SATA, is there a way to do the upgrade with a laptop instead? what cables do i need to get? if it is PATA, then i guess i have to buy a new drive...thanks.

[etsolow]

Sorry, PATA only! :D

[kwaapia]

Sorry, PATA only! :D


ok... i guess my upgrade will start later then. excited to be here. another question. I currently have jsut one dvr - phillips dsr708. I am thinking of getting another one for the bedroom so i can move shows between the 2 systems. is the following possible:

1. buy a standalone non direct tv tivo box and dont activate it.. just use it to pull stuff from the phillips direct tv box. or

2. buy a standalone non direct tv tivo box and activate through direct tv.. and use it to pull stuff from the phillips direct tv box.

3. buy another dsr708 from ebay, dont activate and use as secondary system just pulling shows off the first....

Thanks!

[Dan Collins]

You could also try this:

http://www.neticamall.com/adwords/P_1429.htm

Of course, you'd also need a power cable adapter to get a floppy power connector: http://www.xpcgear.com/floppy4pin.html

[Gunnyman]

ok... i guess my upgrade will start later then. excited to be here. another question. I currently have jsut one dvr - phillips dsr708. I am thinking of getting another one for the bedroom so i can move shows between the 2 systems. is the following possible:

1. buy a standalone non direct tv tivo box and dont activate it.. jsut use it to pull stuff from the phillips direct tv box. or

2. buy a standalone non direct tv tivo box and activate through direct tv.. and use it to pull stuff from the phillips direct tv box.

3. buy another dsr708 from ebay, dont activate and use as secondary system just pulling shows off the first....

Thanks!
1) wont work because you can't use mrv without an subscription ona S2 standalone
2) won't work because you can't activate an S2 standalone with DTV (you buy sub from Tivo)
3) ding ding ding we have a winner :D

[Gunnyman]

Need some advice.
Bought Weaknees barebones DSR7000. Got 250 GB drive, used Zipper. Up and running just fine..
Discovered bad Sat input.
Weaknees sent replacement unit.
Swapped zippered drive and card to new unit.
Called DTV and they "married" card to new tivo.
Tivo functions reported hardware problem that needed attention.
Rebooted. No help.
Cleared and Deleted everything.
Now Tivo functions work but HMO problematic. Can see other Tivos but won't allow program transfer. Says it is not enabled. Other Tivos see this one but it is listed by last four digits of serial number, not by assigned name.
No TWP. No telnet. Haven't tried serial cable to see if I can get a bash.
Any suggestions?
try -re-running setmrvname
C&DE kills all settings in MFS including MRV and Networking. You will either have to re-zipper OR run the enhancement portion from serial BASH.

[tonydi]

Well, whatever I'm doing wrong at least I'm consistent! :D

I did a second HDVR2 with Zipper and I get the same sort of errors, except it didn't "hang" on the loading of the channel icons. That made me look back further in the process and I found that the first problem was here....

============
Adding the alias "speed" to your profile to run netperf...
/enhancements/start.sh: /.profile: Read-only file system

Do you want to add additional target tivos? [y/n]: y
Enter the IP address of your second target tivo here: 192.168.1.51
/enhancements/start.sh: /.profile: Read-only file system

After rebooting, type "speed" at bash to measure MRV speed between 192.168.1.54 and 19
2.168.1.52
After rebooting, type "speed2" at bash to measure MRV speed between 192.168.1.54 and 1
92.168.1.51

Appending your author file to run netserver on reboot...
/enhancements/start.sh: /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit.author: Read-only file system
/enhancements/start.sh: /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit.author: Read-only file system
/enhancements/start.sh: /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit.author: Read-only file system
/enhancements/start.sh: /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit.author: Read-only file system
===========

I'm holding off on doing the other two HDVR2's until someone can point me in the right direction as to what I'm doing wrong and how to proceed.

Help!

[Gunnyman]

Well, whatever I'm doing wrong at least I'm consistent! :D

I did a second HDVR2 with Zipper and I get the same sort of errors, except it didn't "hang" on the loading of the channel icons. That made me look back further in the process and I found that the first problem was here....

============
Adding the alias "speed" to your profile to run netperf...
/enhancements/start.sh: /.profile: Read-only file system

Do you want to add additional target tivos? [y/n]: y
Enter the IP address of your second target tivo here: 192.168.1.51
/enhancements/start.sh: /.profile: Read-only file system

After rebooting, type "speed" at bash to measure MRV speed between 192.168.1.54 and 19
2.168.1.52
After rebooting, type "speed2" at bash to measure MRV speed between 192.168.1.54 and 1
92.168.1.51

Appending your author file to run netserver on reboot...
/enhancements/start.sh: /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit.author: Read-only file system
/enhancements/start.sh: /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit.author: Read-only file system
/enhancements/start.sh: /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit.author: Read-only file system
/enhancements/start.sh: /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit.author: Read-only file system
===========

I'm holding off on doing the other two HDVR2's until someone can point me in the right direction as to what I'm doing wrong and how to proceed.

Help!
that's rather strange
try this: mount -o remount,rw / from bash
and then re-run the enhance script again

[rbautch]

3. The Zipper script appears to assume a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0 - I use 255.255.0.0 and therefore even after getting physical connectivity, I had to do some monkeying around to be able to telnet in or see TWP. Any chance the script could prompt for subnet mask?
Sure it could, but the Zipper is set up for newbies who may not know what a subnet mask is. And ulness you've got your network partitioned into a few hundred subnets, I'm not sure why you'd want to use a subnet mask of 255.255.0.0.

[rbautch]

that's rather strange
try this: mount -o remount,rw / from bash
and then re-run the enhance script again
Strange indeed, since the script mounts the root filesystem as read-write before it starts.

[rbautch]

Need some advice.
Bought Weaknees barebones DSR7000. Got 250 GB drive, used Zipper. Up and running just fine..
Discovered bad Sat input.
Weaknees sent replacement unit.
Swapped zippered drive and card to new unit.
Called DTV and they "married" card to new tivo.
Tivo functions reported hardware problem that needed attention.
Rebooted. No help.
Cleared and Deleted everything.
Now Tivo functions work but HMO problematic. Can see other Tivos but won't allow program transfer. Says it is not enabled. Other Tivos see this one but it is listed by last four digits of serial number, not by assigned name.
No TWP. No telnet. Haven't tried serial cable to see if I can get a bash.
Any suggestions?
Rebooting doesn't clear the "hardware problem" (error#51), it gets cleared when you run the enhancement script, and then reboot. The Zipper instructions clearly state "do not do a clear and delete"!.

[rbautch]

First,
Thank you, GunnyMan & rbautch for all you help.

Is there any reason not to run the Zipper on a tivo that has already been mod. with the "Unguide"? At the moment I already have the drive out trying to recover it to another drive. DD_Rescue is taking a very long time.

I was wondering, How much does the USB 2.0 drivers help when transfering from one Dtivo to another? I thought the series2 boxes had USB 1.1.

Thanks
Penyles No reason to run the Zipper if the drive is already hacked using the unguide. Instead, start with the enhancement script in my sig.

[tonydi]

that's rather strange
try this: mount -o remount,rw / from bash
and then re-run the enhance script again
Should I do the sh tweak-uninstall.sh first and reboot before running tweak.sh again?

[Gunnyman]

if it complains yeah

[etsolow]

Sure it could, but the Zipper is set up for newbies who may not know what a subnet mask is. And ulness you've got your network partitioned into a few hundred subnets, I'm not sure why you'd want to use a subnet mask of 255.255.0.0.

Fair enough. I suppose anyone who uses something other than a standard class C subnet mask will know enough to establish connectivity anyway.

(I do it because 250ish hosts is nowhere near enough! You don't want my electric bill.)

:D

[tonydi]

Ok, I had to run the tweak_uninstall script because tweak.sh complained.

Then I rebooted and tried to run tweak again. Got this....

=============
family-TiVo# cd /hacks
family-TiVo# pwd
/hacks
family-TiVo# sh tweak.sh
Original unpatched tivoapp found in /tvbin. This takes up lots of space and may
interfere with running this script. Enter r to remove it, k to keep it, or e to
exit this this script now so you can FTP it to your PC. Enter r k or e here: r
mv: /hacks/rbautch_files.tgz: No such file or directory
chmod: /enhancements/rbautch_files.tgz: No such file or directory

Running rbautch Hacked Tivo Enhancements...
tar: /enhancements/rbautch_files.tgz: No such file or directory
Do you want to run the "express" version (for advanced users)? [y/n]: n
tweak.sh: /enhancements/start.sh: No such file or directory
Do you want to continue? [y/n]: n
Exiting now...
=============

Next?

[nexus99]

I have been out of the loop a bit and didn't even know 6.2 was out there! (I guess however I hacked my system before kept me from getting the update.)

I have a Huges SD-DVR40 that I am going to Zipper. From the 10 mins I have spent researching it looks like I can instant cake to 6.2 then zipper to get all the cool HMO, tolls, etc.

If you guys see anything wrong with this please scream at me. Thanks for building the ZIPPER :-)

[hyzdufan]

Two questions...

First, can someone explain to me all the functionalities that are added when my DirecTivo is Zippered? What kind of wireless network capabilities does it add with respect to transfers, download of program data, etc?

Are there any services out there to which I can send my SIR-S4080R drive, and have them Zipper it for me for a fee?

Thanks guys!

[magnus]

1) I think they are all explained in this thread.
2) Some work and fun you just gotta experience for yourself.

Two questions...

First, can someone explain to me all the functionalities that are added when my DirecTivo is Zippered? What kind of wireless network capabilities does it add with respect to transfers, download of program data, etc?

Are there any services out there to which I can send my SIR-S4080R drive, and have them Zipper it for me for a fee?

Thanks guys!

[tonydi]

After digging around in this thread I copied the rbautch_files.tgz file into the hacks directory and re-ran the tweak.sh file. This time it went through in what appeared to be a normal manner.

This is the only part that didn't look the same as it did the first time I ran tweak:
========
Installing new profile with aliases...
Checking for existing profile...
Existing profile detected, do you want to append new aliases it? [y/n]: y
Appending aliases to your profile...
========

I hope I answered that question correctly, did I?


Anyway, everything seemed to work without having any "no such file or directory" issues.

Is there any good way to tell if this unit is now correctly "Zippered"? I had that odd situation to begin with and the odd situation with the uninstall/reinstall so I'd like to feel warm and fuzzy that I'm good to go.

[JDAWG11]

Hey guy's love what you did with this new unit. I just bought the HR10 250 and was so excited to learn it was hackable!!! I did need a little help if anyone is listening at this hour:
I ran the Zipper on my tivo drive and installed back in to original unit. Tivo booted up just fine and tried to telenet to unit. That's when I came up with this error message, "Could not open connection to the host, on port 23. The system cannot find the file specified."
If anyone has ever come across this message, please let me know what you were able to do to fix it. For what it's worth, I did have some questions about the IP address of the tivo. I found it the best way I knew and ran ipconfig on the computer where the ethernet cable was hooked up to. Then unplugged that system and ran it to the tivo, using and asuming the same IP address. I also used a belkin usb-to-ethernet device rather than the one suggested (all that I had lying around the house). If anyone has some time please let me know what you think.

Thanks in advance!!

[hollepe]

Hi
Thanks for giving us the Zipper.

My USB wired ethernet stopped working after completing tweak.sh script.

I selected 'yes' to the USB 2.0 driver installation and completed the rest of the script. I rebooted 3 times. Now, I am not able to telnet/ping the Tivo. Ethernet USB Link light is lit. Router is no longer listing the IP address.

How can I restore the USB driver that was backed up during the tweak.sh Enhancement Script? Thanks. :o

[GaryD9]

Revised to check 'no reboot' conditions first:
I'm trying to redo this a bit to be less ugly. Rather than using 'find' (which makes demands on the filesystem, relies on a reboot flag file existing, is crippled due to busybox (preventing me from telling it NOT to recurse), and can be slow if there happens to be other stuff where that flag file is supposed to be), I'm trying to use /proc/uptime to determine how long its been since the last reboot. Unfortunatly, I have NFC where to get my hands on a cross-compiler (yes, I AM too lazy to search - or rather I'm too lazy to sift through the search results...), and I'm not familier with .tcl (is this the old tcl/tk stuff? shame I never learned that.) So, I'm doing it the hard way - with bash scripts.

rbauth - should I move this sub-sub-sub-thread to your tweaks specific thread?

[Greencat]

Ok, I had to run the tweak_uninstall script because tweak.sh complained.

Then I rebooted and tried to run tweak again. Got this....

=============
family-TiVo# cd /hacks
family-TiVo# pwd
/hacks
family-TiVo# sh tweak.sh
Original unpatched tivoapp found in /tvbin. This takes up lots of space and may
interfere with running this script. Enter r to remove it, k to keep it, or e to
exit this this script now so you can FTP it to your PC. Enter r k or e here: r
mv: /hacks/rbautch_files.tgz: No such file or directory
chmod: /enhancements/rbautch_files.tgz: No such file or directory

Running rbautch Hacked Tivo Enhancements...
tar: /enhancements/rbautch_files.tgz: No such file or directory
Do you want to run the "express" version (for advanced users)? [y/n]: n
tweak.sh: /enhancements/start.sh: No such file or directory
Do you want to continue? [y/n]: n
Exiting now...
=============

Next?

This is the same problem I am having. See my posts on the script thread. Did you upgrade with zipper or you own? I'm having this problem on units I did not use zipper on.

[kwaapia]

This is the same problem I am having. See my posts on the script thread. Did you upgrade with zipper or you own? I'm having this problem on units I did not use zipper on.


well .. after staying up until 3 am dealing with the same problem and reading various posts, I just downloaded an ftp client and browsed around the various files on the tivo. the hack directory was there alright but there was no rbautch_files.tgz file in that directory. so i just ftped it over, run the uninstall tweak, then the tweak. went perfectly. except!:

my new tivo screen looks just like my old one - with only one exception - a new option called music and photos. when i go in there, i get prompted to manually install a server .

I am still scratching my head in regards to all the features this hack is supposed to provide.. where are they?! when i type in the ip address of the tivo on my pc, tivowebplus comes up.

However, i till dont understand how to move recorded programs from the tivo to say, my home network attacked storage device. how does one access the mrv and hmo functions? how do i configure tivowebplus to enable me access it from work?

Other than that, it was a thrill going through this yersterday! as you can tell, this is my very first project! pretty cool stuff you guys have here... oh, and i have the phillips ds6708. however my software is showing dsr7000 .... i am sure i downloaded the correct software from ptvupgrade.... showuld i ask for another one?

[msu72]

try -re-running setmrvname
C&DE kills all settings in MFS including MRV and Networking. You will either have to re-zipper OR run the enhancement portion from serial BASH.

Thanks for the advice. I bit the bullet last night, pulled the drive, re-zippered and re-ran the enhancement script. Now all is back to normal with both inputs working. I still can't believe how easy the zipper and enhancement script make things. Took all of 45 minutes from the time I started disconnecting cables until I was setting up my season passes again.
Thanks again to you and Rbauch for the help and all of the hard work that went into creating these tools for us.

[rbautch]

After digging around in this thread I copied the rbautch_files.tgz file into the hacks directory and re-ran the tweak.sh file. This time it went through in what appeared to be a normal manner.

This is the only part that didn't look the same as it did the first time I ran tweak:
========
Installing new profile with aliases...
Checking for existing profile...
Existing profile detected, do you want to append new aliases it? [y/n]: y
Appending aliases to your profile...
========

I hope I answered that question correctly, did I?


Anyway, everything seemed to work without having any "no such file or directory" issues.

Is there any good way to tell if this unit is now correctly "Zippered"? I had that odd situation to begin with and the odd situation with the uninstall/reinstall so I'd like to feel warm and fuzzy that I'm good to go.
This looks fine. If you want to confirm that your profile was set up correctly, try some commands like "ro" and "rw" to see if they work. Also if your bash prompt was customized then it's working fine.

[rbautch]

Hey guy's love what you did with this new unit. I just bought the HR10 250 and was so excited to learn it was hackable!!! I did need a little help if anyone is listening at this hour:
I ran the Zipper on my tivo drive and installed back in to original unit. Tivo booted up just fine and tried to telenet to unit. That's when I came up with this error message, "Could not open connection to the host, on port 23. The system cannot find the file specified."
If anyone has ever come across this message, please let me know what you were able to do to fix it. For what it's worth, I did have some questions about the IP address of the tivo. I found it the best way I knew and ran ipconfig on the computer where the ethernet cable was hooked up to. Then unplugged that system and ran it to the tivo, using and asuming the same IP address. I also used a belkin usb-to-ethernet device rather than the one suggested (all that I had lying around the house). If anyone has some time please let me know what you think.

Thanks in advance!! Can you ping the tivo? Is the link light glowing on the adapter?

[rbautch]

Hi
Thanks for giving us the Zipper.

My USB wired ethernet stopped working after completing tweak.sh script.

I selected 'yes' to the USB 2.0 driver installation and completed the rest of the script. I rebooted 3 times. Now, I am not able to telnet/ping the Tivo. Ethernet USB Link light is lit. Router is no longer listing the IP address.

How can I restore the USB driver that was backed up during the tweak.sh Enhancement Script? Thanks. :o Pull the drive and mount it in your PC. Then run the uninstall script in the /hacks directory to restore your drivers. Once you get it back in your tivo, you can run the enhancement script again, but say no to usb2.0 drivers. What kind of adapter do you have? If you really want usb2.0 drivers, I suggest building a serial cable to troubleshoot the installation. Otherwise you'll have to pull the drive everytime you test.

[rbautch]

I'm trying to redo this a bit to be less ugly. Rather than using 'find' (which makes demands on the filesystem, relies on a reboot flag file existing, is crippled due to busybox (preventing me from telling it NOT to recurse), and can be slow if there happens to be other stuff where that flag file is supposed to be), I'm trying to use /proc/uptime to determine how long its been since the last reboot. Unfortunatly, I have NFC where to get my hands on a cross-compiler (yes, I AM too lazy to search - or rather I'm too lazy to sift through the search results...), and I'm not familier with .tcl (is this the old tcl/tk stuff? shame I never learned that.) So, I'm doing it the hard way - with bash scripts.

rbauth - should I move this sub-sub-sub-thread to your tweaks specific thread? Yea, let's move it over there. There is a thread on DDB on how to build a MIPS cross compiler on cygwin, which was started by tmesis. I've been trying for a few weeks to build it, with no luck so far. I know what you mean about busybox, I want to compile a full featured version of wget. My problem is likely that I learn everything from Google, and I've never compiled or cross-compiled anything in my life. Google has taught me quite a bit of tcl and the customized version of tcl that tivo uses called tivosh. I'd be happy to help you fill in the gaps. Let me know exactly what you want the script to do.

[hollepe]

Pull the drive and mount it in your PC. Then run the uninstall script in the /hacks directory to restore your drivers. Once you get it back in your tivo, you can run the enhancement script again, but say no to usb2.0 drivers. What kind of adapter do you have? If you really want usb2.0 drivers, I suggest building a serial cable to troubleshoot the installation. Otherwise you'll have to pull the drive everytime you test.

Thank you. I have a Compaq 10/100 Fast Ethernet USB adapter.

[JrFaust]

Woot!!!

I just wanted to say thanks again for Zipper.
I just finished getting telnet, ftp, MVR and TWP running on my R10. I haven't tested all the installed hacks just yet but the main parts for me (MVR, Music and Photos) works great.

Oh, yes it's has a new prom. :D

Thanks again guys.

[rbautch]

Awesome. Did the Zipper work "out of the box", or did you modify the install in any way?

[JrFaust]

I had to install the files into the directiories first. Then I ran tweak.sh and most everything installed but ncid as it's not compatible with 6.1 I guess. I guess I could have copied the correct kernel to VMLINUX_.GZ then made a backup image of my 6.1 system and renamed that to the 000001 and I think it would have ran "out of the box" so to speak.

I'll try that out this weekend and see.

[rbautch]

I had to install the files into the directiories first.
Could you clarify this? Also, 6.1 uses the same kernel as 6.2, so I don't think that will make a difference. The fact that the kernel has killhdinitrd applied to it shouldn't have any effect either. In fact, I believe you could skip the whole kernel replacement step entirely and it would still work.

[kwaapia]

guys:

I zippered a new 200g seagate drive for my dsr708 2 days ago. went fine , however, just yesterday, I started hearing clicks from the drive, with picture freezes. when i reboot, it just stays on powering up. I suspect the hard drive is shot.

has anyone had this experience? i want to assume i just lucked out on the hard drive and not something in the enhancements i loaded which caused this? anyone?

[Runch Machine]

Is this a serious question, or are you kidding? You aren't suggesting that software of this type could cause disk drive failure are you?

[austin61]

guys:

I zippered a new 200g seagate drive for my dsr708 2 days ago. went fine , however, just yesterday, I started hearing clicks from the drive, with picture freezes. when i reboot, it just stays on powering up. I suspect the hard drive is shot.

has anyone had this experience? i want to assume i just lucked out on the hard drive and not something in the enhancements i loaded which caused this? anyone?Did you answer 'y' to the question "Do you want your drive to fail?" during the enhancement install?

[Bribo]

Oops, left the "Drive will die in 48 hours" jumper enabled. It's an easy one to miss.

[etsolow]

Tough crowd in here today! :D

What I think they are trying to say, kwaapia, is that while it's unlikely the upgrade had anything to do with it, it is possible that switching boot partitions or some such thing could have exposed a problem on your drive that's been there un-noticed for a while. At any rate, the clicking/freezing/failing-to-boot certainly sounds like a failing drive. Perhaps you could put that drive back in your PC and run the manufacturer's diags on it? If it has failed you should be able to get a replacement.

[etsolow]

Actually, since it's a new drive, even the "exposing a hidden problem" scenario doesn't make sense. Just run the diags and RMA it. ;)

[kwaapia]

Did you answer 'y' to the question "Do you want your drive to fail?" during the enhancement install?

Interesting responses to my "uninformed" question. I was only trying to figure out why the drive died. I was actually thinking about another poster who asked basically the same question and never got a definitive answer. (see post # 639)

Certainly not all of us have the same level of knowledge in doing this, however we all share the same goal of having fun doing this. whats the point of critisizing and taking pointless jabs at a newbie trying to figure out this stuff?

k

[rbautch]

Amen. This is not the forum to fry newbies. Sounds like a bad drive to me.

[tivoguys]

The zipper works and it rocks for the simplicity! I have done all the steps and have to buy a wireless card/bridge today to finish the setup.

What wireless adapter should i buy for the philips DSR708 with WEP 64/128 enabled?

Thanks much!

[Gunnyman]

Just wanted to drop in and apologize for my abscence.
Ice strom from the depths of hell has run my family and I out of our home until at LEAST tuesday night.
Internet access is spotty at best.
:(

[jacobracer]

Ultra newbie in here attempting the zipper- what is a good program to use to burn the neccessary files to a cd? I tried twice and they all show up but when i type sh zipper.sh it starts the program and then says it can't find tivotools.tar
Please help!!

[magnus]

maybe you did not unzip till you got to tivotools.tar :-)

Ultra newbie in here attempting the zipper- what is a good program to use to burn the neccessary files to a cd? I tried twice and they all show up but when i type sh zipper.sh it starts the program and then says it can't find tivotools.tar
Please help!!

[jacobracer]

maybe you did not unzip till you got to tivotools.tar :-)

I did - what program should I use to unzip - I'll try it again.

[sethtat]

I am new to zipper
trying to ftp tweaks to tivo
says it is a read-only file system
help

[austin61]

I am new to zipper
trying to ftp tweaks to tivo
says it is a read-only file system
helpI didn't think it was necessary with "the zipper", but in the old days we use to enter mount -o remount,rw / at the bash prompt to get the filesystem to be writable.

[nathan909]

I have used the Zipper once "worked like a charm"!

I’m about to setup another drive for a x-mass gift The recipient of the gift has the same model tivo as me "HDVR2". After installing the image on a new drive and running the Zipper script on my tivo here, what will the recipient have to do?

Scramble mode is off so dose he need to do anything?
or
Can he do a clear and delete? Or does he need to run "51killer.tlc"

Is there any other problem that may accrue?

Thanks!
-Nathan

[rbautch]

I have used the Zipper once "worked like a charm"!

I’m about to setup another drive for a x-mass gift The recipient of the gift has the same model tivo as me "HDVR2". After installing the image on a new drive and running the Zipper script on my tivo here, what will the recipient have to do?

Scramble mode is off so dose he need to do anything?
or
Can he do a clear and delete? Or does he need to run "51killer.tlc"

Is there any other problem that may accrue?

Thanks!
-Nathan Follow the latest Zipper instructions TO THE LETTER, especially regarding clear and delete and error51. Should be no problem.

[rbautch]

I didn't think it was necessary with "the zipper", but in the old days we use to enter mount -o remount,rw / at the bash prompt to get the filesystem to be writable. True indeed. Tweaks are included on the tools disk download, so now they should be in your /hacks directory.

[rbautch]

Just wanted to drop in and apologize for my abscence.
Ice strom from the depths of hell has run my family and I out of our home until at LEAST tuesday night.
Internet access is spotty at best.
:( Welcome back! I thought you lived in SC. :confused: Also glad to see some Zipper veterans pitching in to help.

[gerryger]

I am a newbie but I did read the 1000+ posts (my eyes are tired)...........i just want to confirm one thing before I start this endeavor.

I just bought a new 250 gig HD . I plan on using that with the stock HD in my HR10-250 but I want this stock HD to be erased/reformatted (of course after I back it up). I don't care to keep any of the settings on that HD. Do I need to pull the drive and reformat it myself (Fat32) or will the Zipper or Instant Cake take care of that for me. My main goal is to do this hack with 2 clean drives. Also, if I can reformat it, can I do that in Windows XP or do I have to do it within Linux (Mfs-tools)

[starbiker99]

I have zippered all 3 of my Directivo's and the only trouble I have had has been self induced typing errors. I am looking into getting a 4th unit for practice purposes. I would love to get deep inside of these units. I work on Linux based servers everyday and these seem to be real similar. I would rather not render a regular box helpless. :)

[bengalfreak]

whats the point of critisizing and taking pointless jabs at a newbie trying to figure out this stuff?

k


Because its funny? Seriously, it was pretty obvious all of those responses were tongue in cheek. For instance, I just happened to pull my drive and zipper it in a DSR7000, placed it back in the DTivo and, rather Murphy-ish-ly, tuner number one is dead. rbautch joked that I must have used the -f (fry a tuner switch) when I did the mfsrestore. So just chuckle and wait for someone to answer you seriously.

[ttodd1]

Welcome back! I thought you lived in SC. :confused: Also glad to see some Zipper veterans pitching in to help.

In the Greenville area they got hit with alot of ice the the rest of the state did not get.

[Gunnyman]

yep 400,000 peeps without power.
I'm going home today ( I am in Charlotte NC) to empty my fridge and freezer before it starts to smell, and get some clean clothes.
Power company says I'll have power Tuesday, MAYBE.

[rbautch]

I am a newbie but I did read the 1000+ posts (my eyes are tired)...........i just want to confirm one thing before I start this endeavor.

I just bought a new 250 gig HD . I plan on using that with the stock HD in my HR10-250 but I want this stock HD to be erased/reformatted (of course after I back it up). I don't care to keep any of the settings on that HD. Do I need to pull the drive and reformat it myself (Fat32) or will the Zipper or Instant Cake take care of that for me. My main goal is to do this hack with 2 clean drives. Also, if I can reformat it, can I do that in Windows XP or do I have to do it within Linux (Mfs-tools) Don't need to reformat. When you let the zipper install the HR10-250 image for you, it will also format the drive as needed. You can either make a backup of the drive yourself and install the image on the tools disk, or download an instantcake image using the link from the Zipper site. If you really want to start "fresh" go with instantcake. Otherwise, depending on the backup/restore options you choose, most of your old settings will still be there on the image.

[rbautch]

I checked the download stats on the tools disk from the Zipper website, which now stands at 2501 downloads. I'm happy to think there could be 2501 Zippered tivos out there. For you history buffs, here (http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?p=3083015&&#post3083015) is the birth of the Zipper.

[Tracy RainH2o]

OK, I'll ask another "Stupid Newbie Question". Don't worry, I have a tough skin.
(flame-proof suit on) ;)

I was not sure as to the programs to use and order in which to do my upgrade. Here's what I did:
1. MFS Tools to back up image of 40GB drive
2. MFS Tools to restore image and copy recorded programs to my new 200GB drive.
3. Installed new drive into Tivo
4. All is well except my 200GB drive reads 137GB / 120 hours. Yes, I knew that it would happen. I just didn't know how to copy my shows without using MFS Tools.

1. Now, do I simply run The Zipper as stated on The Zipper site and it will enable the whole 200GB capacity?
2. If I wanted to keep all of my recorded shows, should I have done something differently with my new 200GB drive? I have two more Tivos to go.

[tonydi]

I can see from your posts in other threads that you've been struggling with getting a large disc support CD created and booting. From your description I think you've failed because the Tivo should see the full hard drive if you had done it correctly.

I'd suggest redoing the whole big drive upgrade again, using the instructions found here:

http://tivo.upgrade-instructions.com/step1.php

I've used Nero to burn the ISO image at that site and have upgraded about 6 different Tivo's to bigger drives so I know it works.

[1a2s3d4f]

thank you very much

[n4zmz]

I'd have to say that all in all, the zipper script did work after some editing to match my setup.

1 - the check for superpatch fails if you have the .txt file on the cd. (I extracted the full zip to the directory)
2 - the check for the kernel image did not work for the PTV 3.0 cd I had laying around. (vmlinux.px.gz not vmlinux.pz.gz)

For some reason the standby menu item is missing on the main menu. Anyway to get it back?
[edit: found the Superpatch67Standby.tcl script to fix the menu item issue.]

Now off to figure out how to get my standalones to talk to my DTiVo....

[etsolow]

I checked the download stats on the tools disk from the Zipper website, which now stands at 2501 downloads. I'm happy to think there could be 2501 Zippered tivos out there. For you history buffs, here (http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?p=3083015&&#post3083015) is the birth of the Zipper.

be prepared to be HATED by the DDB folks :-D

So why do the DDB folks hate this so much?

[n4zmz]

So why do the DDB folks hate this so much?
It probably has to do with the fact that Sleeper created a CD which made upgrading a 3.1.1 DTiVo easy (almost too easy). It used methods which were current at the time, but have since been updated to better methods. The CD did cause problems and people never learned what was going on behind the scenes.

They just don't want a repeat.

Having hacked a number of tivos using just about all of the methods out there, having a reasonable script does help. Remembering all of the commands and getting them done in the right order is a pain. (It doesn't help that I've got a wide variety of tivos which each has it's own unique issues.)

I do prefer a full CD to point people at when they ask me. But, building a CD with the zipper script is not difficult and it encourages the person to get a backup CD for their unit which saves time and keeps the image begging down. Now I'd also prefer instructions for something other than Windows (not that I need them, I'm just very partial to my Linux boxen).

[gerryger]

Don't need to reformat. When you let the zipper install the HR10-250 image for you, it will also format the drive as needed. You can either make a backup of the drive yourself and install the image on the tools disk, or download an instantcake image using the link from the Zipper site. If you really want to start "fresh" go with instantcake. Otherwise, depending on the backup/restore options you choose, most of your old settings will still be there on the image.


I definetly plan on using the instant cake image on the new hd............so then somewhere through the installaton process it will deal with my existing drive besides the new drive...........is one of the backup/restore options 'not to keep any info on the original drive' after the back up has been completed. Also am I right to assume that the 2 drives will be married?

If you think I am too concerned about leaving the data on the existing drive...let me know..........i thought i read that the best way do use the zipper script is with 2 clean drives.

[rbautch]

I definetly plan on using the instant cake image on the new hd............so then somewhere through the installaton process it will deal with my existing drive besides the new drive...........is one of the backup/restore options 'not to keep any info on the original drive' after the back up has been completed. Also am I right to assume that the 2 drives will be married?

If you think I am too concerned about leaving the data on the existing drive...let me know..........i thought i read that the best way do use the zipper script is with 2 clean drives. Actually the best way to do it is to use ONE large drive, IMO. If you must use two drives, you have to marry them first before running the Zipper. Then run the Zipper on the master drive.

[rbautch]

1 - the check for superpatch fails if you have the .txt file on the cd. (I extracted the full zip to the directory) I'm not sure why this would happen, since I use a wildcard in the check (superpatch*).
2 - the check for the kernel image did not work for the PTV 3.0 cd I had laying around. (vmlinux.px.gz not vmlinux.pz.gz) Fixed this typo, thanks.

[rbautch]

OK, I'll ask another "Stupid Newbie Question". Don't worry, I have a tough skin.
(flame-proof suit on) ;)

I was not sure as to the programs to use and order in which to do my upgrade. Here's what I did:
1. MFS Tools to back up image of 40GB drive
2. MFS Tools to restore image and copy recorded programs to my new 200GB drive.
3. Installed new drive into Tivo
4. All is well except my 200GB drive reads 137GB / 120 hours. Yes, I knew that it would happen. I just didn't know how to copy my shows without using MFS Tools.

1. Now, do I simply run The Zipper as stated on The Zipper site and it will enable the whole 200GB capacity?
2. If I wanted to keep all of my recorded shows, should I have done something differently with my new 200GB drive? I have two more Tivos to go.I think you might be using the wrong boot disk (with MFS tools on it). The one linked on the Zipper site has support for drives over 127Gig. The Zipper itself will not enable the extra capacity on your drive. Check out the "upgrade" forum, as many others have gone down this road.

[ruexp67]

About three weeks ago I used the Zipper to hack both of my HDVR2s and everything worked great.

Today, I went to login through TWP on one of my Tivos and the /var/hacks folder was missing.

I was able to re-install TWP, but I am not sure what other things I might be missing as a result. I am also concerned with making sure this doesn't happen again.

I tried searching, but all searches returned to this thread, and I couldn't find any reference to this particular problem. (Doesn't mean it's not here, I just can't seem to find it. :) )

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[ruexp67]

I re-ran rbautch's script which should replace everything that would have been missing.

I am still confused as to why the symlinks didn't come back. :confused:

[hollepe]

Hi, what is the path for the 'ls' command? My current path is

/bin:/sbin:/tvbin. When I execute 'ls' I get:

bash: ls: command not found
I hope I did not delete it.
Thanks!

[Gunnyman]

/busybox or /tivo-bin

[bleair]

I just finished installing on my HR10-250 (hehe now 320). The instructions worked great. A few things that I learned as I went along:

1) The serial console is enabled. This was lucky for me, as I didn't have a supported usb adapter. With a null modem serial cable I could login and
then run the tweak script. (settings are 115200, 8 n 1 and no flow control)

2) To get a serail login however, I had to connect the satellite signal. At first I saw syslog output on my serial connection, but I couldn't login. It wasn't until I connected my sat. signal (duh) that the bootup progressed and then I was able to login. That was a happy aha moment.

3) The linksys USB200m ver 2 adapter can be used. Once I was able to login, run tweak.sh, and install the "USB 2.0 drivers" the tivo had what it needed. After a reboot, my tivo was on my network.
This is great, as it seems that linksys has now cornered (or is that corned?) the market in all the chain stores for cheap network gear.

4) It appears that using instacake necessitates running /busybox/51killer.tcl.

Woo Who, I can now use my linksys adapter and control my tivo from the
web interface. Great job on the instructions and scripts guys.

Thanks to rbautch and Gunnyman, you rock.

[jedware]

Why am I getting a "mount: you must specify the filesystem type" when trying to mount the ToolsCD with "mount /dev/hdc /cdrom"?

[Gunnyman]

is your cdrom secondary master?

[jedware]

is your cdrom secondary master?

yes.


I finally isolated the problem but someone else will need to tell me why. After a couple hours of troubleshooting I isolated it to a BIOS setting and not one I would of thought would be the culprit.

If you own a DELL XPS Txxx and have "Power Management" Disabled then you will get this behavior and unable to mount the ToolsCD.

I have the latest Bios version and I am able to reproduce the behavior at will by changing this setting only. Any explanations?

[rbautch]

I re-ran rbautch's script which should replace everything that would have been missing.

I am still confused as to why the symlinks didn't come back. :confused:The following file should be present: /var/vardelete_flag. When var gets wiped, the following lines in your author file should run the script that builds the symlinks:
if [ ! -e /var/vardelete_flag ]; then
sh /enhancements/var-symlinks.sh
fi You can test this out by deleting the flag and the symlinks, and then rebooting.

[JDAWG11]

I had an easy time running the ZIPPER and installed my drive back in to my h10-250. Booted up just fine and I am getting lights on my linksys usb200m. But I am having trouble with telenet. Please help. I am getting an error message "Could not open the connection to the host, on port 23. The system could not find the file specified." Any suggestions?

[PrimeRisk]

I'm having a bit of a networking problem. I just wanted to see if anyone else had seen something similar.

A week ago I took one of my DSR7000s and upgraded it's original 40G drive to a 250G. Keeping a system backup on DVD, I decided to play with The_Zipper with the original 40G. Everything went smoothly except my Farallon PN796 USB NIC wouldn't play ball on the boot, so I popped in an ADMTek ADM8511 adapter and we were in business. After running the tweaks on the TiVo I was able to reboot and use the Farallon adapter with no problem.

Everything went so well I decided I wanted to pull my 250G drive and run The_Zipper on it. Unfortunately I can't seem to get either of the network adapters to come up. On the 250G drive. I've booted multiple times and tried both adapters, but no joy. I've repulled the drive and reapplied the script to make sure I didn't dink up the IP address, but still no go.

If I return the 40G Zippered drive to the TiVo, either adapter works.

Any ideas?

[ruexp67]

The following file should be present: /var/vardelete_flag. When var gets wiped, the following lines in your author file should run the script that builds the symlinks:
if [ ! -e /var/vardelete_flag ]; then
sh /enhancements/var-symlinks.sh
fi You can test this out by deleting the flag and the symlinks, and then rebooting.

Cool. I verified the exisitance of the flag file, and the code in the author file. I hadn't tried rebooting the tivo when I noticed the /var folder had been emptied. Next time, I can run the repair script manually or reboot. Thanks.

[JrFaust]

I had to install the files into the directiories first.
Could you clarify this? Also, 6.1 uses the same kernel as 6.2, so I don't think that will make a difference. The fact that the kernel has killhdinitrd applied to it shouldn't have any effect either. In fact, I believe you could skip the whole kernel replacement step entirely and it would still work.

To clarify.
I looked at the script and skipped running zipper.sh.
Instead I copied and or extracted all the files I needed to the directories the script said to. Then I ran tweak.sh that ran fine.

But aren’t the hard ware on a 6.2 system the 2.0 platform and the hard ware on the 6.1 system the 2.5 platform? I know that from my experience I haven’t gotten the kernel for a 6.2 system to work in a 6.1 system. But I haven’t been in the game all that long so maybe I’m doing something wrong.

[Gunnyman]

the prom mod is essentially a killhdinitrd done in hardware, no modification of the system kernel is necessary with a prom modded tivo.

[rbautch]

I had an easy time running the ZIPPER and installed my drive back in to my h10-250. Booted up just fine and I am getting lights on my linksys usb200m. But I am having trouble with telenet. Please help. I am getting an error message "Could not open the connection to the host, on port 23. The system could not find the file specified." Any suggestions? Maybe you're not using the correct IP address. Can you ping the tivo from your PC?

[Tracy RainH2o]

I think you might be using the wrong boot disk (with MFS tools on it). The one linked on the Zipper site has support for drives over 127Gig. The Zipper itself will not enable the extra capacity on your drive. Check out the "upgrade" forum, as many others have gone down this road.

Sorry for the wasted post. I didn't realize that MFS Tools was on the LBA48 CD. I re-restored last night and I now have full capacity. I read the MFS Tools posts and downloaded it from the other thread. THANKS !!! :up: :up: :up:

[JDAWG11]

I have tried to used each different ip address in my router and same message. Do you think I have a setting in my router that disabled telnet?
I tried to ping my tivo through command prompt and I am getting another error. "The NTVDM CPU has encountered an illegal instruction"

[bnm81002]

I think you might be using the wrong boot disk (with MFS tools on it). The one linked on the Zipper site has support for drives over 127Gig. The Zipper itself will not enable the extra capacity on your drive. Check out the "upgrade" forum, as many others have gone down this road.



Russ,
I was gonna use a brand new 200GB hard drive to install "the Zipper" onto it but I read here that "the Zipper" doesn't enable the full capacity of the 200GB drive, so how do I go about enabling the full 200GB capacity of the drive then? I'm not going to save any of my recordings from the original drive, just gonna follow "the Zipper" instructions from beginning to the end, would I have to use either of the "Hinsdale" or "Weaknees" guide first then "Zipper" to the 200GB drive? I have the 6.2 image copied to the "Tools CD" already, so how do I go about using either guide then if I have to do that first then Zippered the drive? thanks

[rbautch]

Russ,
I was gonna use a brand new 200GB hard drive to install "the Zipper" onto it but I read here that "the Zipper" doesn't enable the full capacity of the 200GB drive, so how do I go about enabling the full 200GB capacity of the drive then? I'm not going to save any of my recordings from the original drive, just gonna follow "the Zipper" instructions from beginning to the end, would I have to use either of the "Hinsdale" or "Weaknees" guide first then "Zipper" to the 200GB drive? I have the 6.2 image copied to the "Tools CD" already, so how do I go about using either guide then if I have to do that first then Zippered the drive? thanks What I meant was that the Zipper itself will not make an image that was created in a non-lba48 envirionment (<137gig) magically expand to full capacity. As long as you use the boot CD that's linked in the Zipper instructions, you'll see the full 200GB using the tools disk you just made.

[dsmturbo]

I am trying my 1st HR10-250 using the fantastic ZIPPER prg, everything seemed to go very well..except the machine now reboots after acquiring guide since I telnetted and ran tweak.

I don't know but I am thinking perhaps it is the kernel? Does that make sense, and if so, how do I fix? Can I run killhdinit or something from bash prompt?

[austin61]

I just tried the Zipper on a Hughes DVR80 I bought from Value Electronics. Great job on the Zipper guys.

I hacked my other 3 units the old way and the zipper sure makes it a lot quicker and easier. Again, Rbautch and Gunny great job!!

[rbautch]

I am trying my 1st HR10-250 using the fantastic ZIPPER prg, everything seemed to go very well..except the machine now reboots after acquiring guide since I telnetted and ran tweak.

I don't know but I am thinking perhaps it is the kernel? Does that make sense, and if so, how do I fix? Can I run killhdinit or something from bash prompt? If you had a serial cable you could tell for sure. The HR10 uses the same kernel as 6.2 DTivos. If you used the wrong kernel the tivo wouldn't have booted in the first place, and if killhdinitrd had not been applied already to the kernel, you never would have been able to run the enhancement script. If you can telnet to the tivo, run the uninstall script to see if that helps. If not, pull the drive and re-Zipper.

[dsmturbo]

Forgot to mention, I also did a Clear and Delete on it..maybe I was not supposed to. It was a virgin drive replacing the stock (subbed) one.

I run the Express setup(for advanced users)..I would think Express would be for normal users, just the wording I guess. it does say it is a HR10-250 when I run Zipper and the Tweak on it. I think I'll redo zipper..before I did the Tweaks part, it booted okay

[rbautch]

Forgot to mention, I also did a Clear and Delete on it..maybe I was not supposed to. It was a virgin drive replacing the stock (subbed) one.

I run the Express setup(for advanced users)..I would think Express would be for normal users, just the wording I guess. it does say it is a HR10-250 when I run Zipper and the Tweak on it. I think I'll redo zipper..before I did the Tweaks part, it booted okay Dont do a clear and delete.

[geauxdl]

I have an RCA DVR80 and downloaded Instant cake for RCA DVR80, and the LBA48 Boot CD and followed directions explicitly. Had no problems during image install or second part with IP address, etc. No errors reported and no problems with install.

Replaced in DVR80 and I am getting green severe error screen. I re-tried installing image and zipper and even tried on another drive. Both drives are new and image was from Instant cake. Green error screen on both and seems to loop to powering up screen and severe error screen.

It worked with original hard drive and still works when I put it back in after these problems. So the DTivo is working and no problems with original drive or DTivo itself.

Any suggestions. I have read through posts and have some experience with this but unable to fix. Thanks.

[bnm81002]

What I meant was that the Zipper itself will not make an image that was created in a non-lba48 envirionment (<137gig) magically expand to full capacity. As long as you use the boot CD that's linked in the Zipper instructions, you'll see the full 200GB using the tools disk you just made.



oh ok, I figured there was something that wasn't clear about what you said, since I have all the CD's that was listed in the Zipper instructions, I just follow it as is and my drive will be to the max, thanks Russ :D

[rbautch]

I have an RCA DVR80 and downloaded Instant cake for RCA DVR80, and the LBA48 Boot CD and followed directions explicitly. Had no problems during image install or second part with IP address, etc. No errors reported and no problems with install.

Replaced in DVR80 and I am getting green severe error screen. I re-tried installing image and zipper and even tried on another drive. Both drives are new and image was from Instant cake. Green error screen on both and seems to loop to powering up screen and severe error screen.

It worked with original hard drive and still works when I put it back in after these problems. So the DTivo is working and no problems with original drive or DTivo itself.

Any suggestions. I have read through posts and have some experience with this but unable to fix. Thanks.
Search for "Green Screen of Death" or GSOD. GSOD indicates a corrupted MFS database, which is usually a bad image. Perhaps something went wrong with the download from PTVupgrade. You might check out their forums too.

edit: Did you give the GSOD a chance to finish? If you're using a very large drive (over 250GB), you may need to use the -r 4 switch in MFS tools in order to create large partitions. I may add this switch to the Zipper restore command, since I don't think it has adverse affects on smaller drives.

[geauxdl]

Search for "Green Screen of Death" or GSOD. GSOD indicates a corrupted MFS database, which is usually a bad image. Perhaps something went wrong with the download from PTVupgrade. You might check out their forums too.

edit: Did you give the GSOD a chance to finish? If you're using a very large drive (over 250GB), you may need to use the -r 4 switch in MFS tools in order to create large partitions. I may add this switch to the Zipper restore command, since I don't think it has adverse affects on smaller drives.


Thanks for replying so quickly rbautch . I am upgrading to a 400GB so it is a large drive but it has been hours with the problem. Can you explain the -r 4 switch I guess I don't know as much as I thought I did. I also am searching PTV forums and re-downloading Instant Cake. Thanks again.

[dsmturbo]

Ah Ha..okay..no Clear and delete. I forgot that is just if drive was setup before on a different system?

[Dan Collins]

The -r option on mfsadd and mfsrestore sets the blocksize in the mfs file system. Think of this like the allocation size in a FAT drive. Basically, in order to recover from a disk error, the TiVo has to load the entire drive map into memory. At the default block size (-r 2) it can handle upto 274GB of disk space. Beyond that, you need to use -r 3 or -r 4.

The trade off is that each recording will likely consume more disk space due to extra "slop space" at the end of each of file. On the plus size, the TiVo runs faster since it has more working memory.

[Tracy RainH2o]

After making numerous mistakes, I'm zipped with no errors. :D

The installation of the Linksys WUSB11 v2.8 went well. When I try to run rbautch's tweaks I get the telnet adding extra lines.......................

I am using Windows 2000 for the install not XP. Do the XP directions apply to 2000? Do I need to use the uninstall command before I run the sh tweak.sh again? Thanks !!!

[geauxdl]

The -r option on mfsadd and mfsrestore sets the blocksize in the mfs file system. Think of this like the allocation size in a FAT drive. Basically, in order to recover from a disk error, the TiVo has to load the entire drive map into memory. At the default block size (-r 2) it can handle upto 274GB of disk space. Beyond that, you need to use -r 3 or -r 4.

The trade off is that each recording will likely consume more disk space due to extra "slop space" at the end of each of file. On the plus size, the TiVo runs faster since it has more working memory.

Thanks Dan. Would this change the zipper file from:

mfsrestore -s 127 -xzpi /cdrom/000001 /dev/hd$location...

to:

mfsrestore -s 127 - r 4 -xzpi /cdrom/000001 /dev/hd$location...

[hollepe]

After making numerous mistakes, I'm zipped with no errors. :D

The installation of the Linksys WUSB11 v2.8 went well. When I try to run rbautch's tweaks I get the telnet adding extra lines.......................

I am using Windows 2000 for the install not XP. Do the XP directions apply to 2000? Do I need to use the uninstall command before I run the sh tweak.sh again? Thanks !!!

Were you able to use Linksys WUSB11 v2.8 with the Zipper's included drivers? I thought only the v1.0 was working. Is there a list of suitable USB Wireless NICs somewhere?
Thanks!

[Dan Collins]

Thanks Dan. Would this change the zipper file from:

mfsrestore -s 127 -xzpi /cdrom/000001 /dev/hd$location...

to:

mfsrestore -s 127 - r 4 -xzpi /cdrom/000001 /dev/hd$location...

You have a space between the "-" and the "r" that you don't want. It should be:

mfsrestore -s 127 -r 4 -xzpi /cdrom/000001 /dev/hd$location...

[Greencat]

I just finished installing on my HR10-250 (hehe now 320). The instructions worked great. Great job on the instructions and scripts guys.

Thanks to rbautch and Gunnyman, you rock.

I'm thinking about doing what you did. I would guess that you purchased another drive to upgrade and I will do the same. If the upgrade works I then plan to add the original drive as a 2nd drive. Have you thought of this?

[Tracy RainH2o]

Were you able to use Linksys WUSB11 v2.8 with the Zipper's included drivers? I thought only the v1.0 was working. Is there a list of suitable USB Wireless NICs somewhere?
Thanks!

The WUSB11 v2.8 works for me. I found a list of compatible adapters at www.Tivo.com under the Support section. There is a tab listed "Network", then " Which Network Adapters Work with My Series2 DVR?" takes you to a list. When you get to that page, click on "view all adapters" for the complete list.

Wow, I can't believe I was able to give advise. ;)

[msu72]

I'm a little confused. I didn't think that HR10-250's used 6.2. Recent posts indicate that people are using 6.2 images and running the zipper and enhancement script. If that is the case, then do you get full HMO functionality, i.e. MRV?
Don't have HD yet, but just planning ahead.
Thanks

[SteelersFan]

I'm a little confused. I didn't think that HR10-250's used 6.2. Recent posts indicate that people are using 6.2 images and running the zipper and enhancement script. If that is the case, then do you get full HMO functionality, i.e. MRV?
Don't have HD yet, but just planning ahead.
Thanks
See post 1707.

[dsmturbo]

Ah Ha..okay..no Clear and delete. I forgot that is just if drive was setup before on a different system?

Okay I re did hard drive, I got an error 51 after. Then I ran Tweak script and it detected error and I thought perhaps fixed it. However, the machine still gets to Acquiring Sat info and then reboots to Welcome..Powering up.

I don't understand why this is happening. Perhaps I need a new image file or ?

[trplblacksnake]

how would you guys recemend upgrading to the new zipper. do I just need to run the uninstall script then ftp the new files over to the /hacks directory and reinstall? Im also having issues with the padding. On my both tivos some how the 2 min padding turned into a 22 min padding Im thinking rerunning the new script will make this work propperly again.

[hawkeye1991]

Can I apply the zipper to a 6.2 hacked image with a kilhidnrit (sp?) applied to it already.

If I just have to run the rbautch script. How do I assign the ip address? help me with the commands. Thanks


Also, I tried to apply the hacked image (with a bkz extension and 000001 file name) using the zipper I got the error message that there is no image file.


hawk
Ps: I'm trying to catch with linux. Running ubuntu, but still stumbling around :(

[rbautch]

The trade off is that each recording will likely consume more disk space due to extra "slop space" at the end of each of file. On the plus size, the TiVo runs faster since it has more working memory. Good explaination. I think the "slop space" effect is minimal (based on JamieP's rough calculations posted elsewhere). So, I think I'm going to add the -r 4 switch to the main Zipper script. I'll test it on a few different size drives first.

[rbautch]

Can I apply the zipper to a 6.2 hacked image with a kilhidnrit (sp?) applied to it already.

If I just have to run the rbautch script. How do I assign the ip address? help me with the commands. Thanks


Also, I tried to apply the hacked image (with a bkz extension and 000001 file name) using the zipper I got the error message that there is no image file.


hawk
Ps: I'm trying to catch with linux. Running ubuntu, but still stumbling around :( Ok to run it on an already hacked image since it will replace the kernel anyway. If you don't know what existing hacks are on there, you might run into trouble. The Zipper will prompt you for IP addresses of your Tivo and router. Just follow the expertly written directions. Don't use any extension on the image file.

[rbautch]

I'm a little confused. I didn't think that HR10-250's used 6.2. Recent posts indicate that people are using 6.2 images and running the zipper and enhancement script. If that is the case, then do you get full HMO functionality, i.e. MRV?
Don't have HD yet, but just planning ahead.
ThanksHR10-250 does not use 6.2. To use the zipper on it, you put a 3.1.5 image on your tools disk, as described in the instructions.

[rbautch]

Okay I re did hard drive, I got an error 51 after. Then I ran Tweak script and it detected error and I thought perhaps fixed it. However, the machine still gets to Acquiring Sat info and then reboots to Welcome..Powering up.

I don't understand why this is happening. Perhaps I need a new image file or ? Are you using a very large hard drive?

[rbautch]

how would you guys recemend upgrading to the new zipper. do I just need to run the uninstall script then ftp the new files over to the /hacks directory and reinstall? Im also having issues with the padding. On my both tivos some how the 2 min padding turned into a 22 min padding Im thinking rerunning the new script will make this work propperly again. Yes, but FTP the latest script from the link in my sig.

[dsmturbo]

Are you using a very large hard drive?

Russ, man you are busy answering all our posts...sorry. But no, I am using a 250gb drive. I think I will check my image file just to make sure it is fine. I have a couple around, so I'll try a virgin HR10-250 one perhaps.

I don't understand whay this is happening but am going to try and get it right.

Sorry but maybe it is due to me installing Showcases and Yellow starts or something that the HD doesn't like from script? Do I need a different vmlinux on my Tools disk? All I really need is the No phone home and maybe Caller ID

[dsmturbo]

When I run sh zipper.sh, it says:
Checking Tools disk
zipper.sh: [/cdrom/superpatch-67all-NutKase-1.1.tcl: binary operator expected]
All files found or something like that.
Does this sound correct for HR10-250 install?

[rbautch]

Error51 and a non-booting tivo are two separate issues. Try letting the Zipper install your image, and then try to boot it without running the rest of the Zipper. If it hangs, you have a bad image. Nothing to do with showcases. The HR10-250 uses the same kernel as 6.2 Tivos, so that's not it. I don't know what the error you listed above is, but unless it stops the script, you should be ok. Those checks are just to make sure you have all the correct files on the disk so it doesn't fail later.

Does it only not boot after you run the enhancement script? Does the enhancement script correctly identify your tivo as an HR10-250?

[jacobracer]

need some help!! what program do i use to extract the zivotools file to a .tar extension and how do i do it. (sorry - stupid newbie here...)

[rbautch]

Any "zipping" program, like WinZip will work.

[Tracy RainH2o]

Any "zipping" program, like WinZip will work.

I don't know why but I couldn't get WinZip to work with the Tivo Tools file. I had to download and use WinRar. Maybe it's just me.

[Tracy RainH2o]

I am using Windows 2000 for the install not XP. Do the XP directions apply to 2000?

I do not know if anyone else has run across this. I had to use the XP SP2 special instructions to make the Enhancement script work with Windows 2000.

Everything work except Channel Logos. I do not have any.

[geauxdl]

You have a space between the "-" and the "r" that you don't want. It should be:

mfsrestore -s 127 -r 4 -xzpi /cdrom/000001 /dev/hd$location...

Thanks Dan and rbautch. I got the zipper and drives working. The only issue I am having now is an error on Now Showing on Tivoweb Plus. Error as follows:

INTERNAL SERVER ERROR
--cut here--
action_nowshowing '' ''
can't read "nowshowingdir": no such variable
while executing
"ForeachMfsFileTrans fsid name type $nowshowingdir "" 15 {
set rec [db $db openid $fsid]
if {$nstype == 6} {
print_nowshowingrow $chan $r..."
(procedure "::action_nowshowing" line 61)
invoked from within
"::action_$action $chan $part $env"
("eval" body line 1)
invoked from within
"eval {::action_$action $chan $part $env}"
--cut here--

I have stopped, started, restarted Tivoweb and rebooted tivo but keep getting same error. I don't know if it is a Tivoweb issue or a zipper issue. The only two Dtivos giving me problems are the two I zippered so I am assuming it has something to do with it. Thanks.

[dsmturbo]

Error51 and a non-booting tivo are two separate issues. Try letting the Zipper install your image, and then try to boot it without running the rest of the Zipper. If it hangs, you have a bad image. Nothing to do with showcases. The HR10-250 uses the same kernel as 6.2 Tivos, so that's not it. I don't know what the error you listed above is, but unless it stops the script, you should be ok. Those checks are just to make sure you have all the correct files on the disk so it doesn't fail later.

Does it only not boot after you run the enhancement script? Does the enhancement script correctly identify your tivo as an HR10-250?

Okay, I will try again, I have reimaged the drive and ran the Zipper. I suspect same as last 3 times, it will be okay, other then the error 51, until I run the tweak...but I will check for sure.

Yes, the rebooting issue seems to be only after I run the enhancement script (Tweak) and yes, it says it is a HR10-250 when I telnet in before I run Tweak script. I'll try it again tonight.

[ahroberts]

After an entire day of fruitless efforts, I am finally giving in and asking for help.

I hacked my philips 708 a few days ago with the zipper and things went great. Everything was functional, including wireless networking. I could telnet in without problems after having set a static ip. Last night, I try and connect to the tivo and nothing.
Tryed pinging the static ip.....nothing
Tryed 2 different usb adapters....nothing
I did an angry ip scan thinking that maybe the ip got changed.....nothing
I am now attempting to connect via serial, but all I get is a bunch of garbage on the screen in hyperterminal.
Anybody had this problem before???
I searched the forums for a solution to no avail

Please help me out guys. This is driving me nuts. I'm new to tivo hacking but I have hacked xbox's extensively. Much of the terminology/procedures are the same. I don't understand why it did work and now doesn't

[texster]

Garbage is good.
Check your settings: Baud/bps: 115200, Data: 8bit, parity: none, stop bits: 1, flow control: none
Try using Tera Term Pro hyperterminal.

[dsmturbo]

rbautch, tried again this AM and same thing. This time I ran Tweak, it said was erro #51 and corrected, didn't install Channel logos or showcases or anything, just usb 2 drivers, CallerID, cron, joe etc.

Booted to Menu screen, soon as I chose Watch TV it rebooted and then after that kept rebooting after Acquiring sat info.

I don't want to make this thread my own personal assistance post, so perhaps I will post a new Thread and see if anyone with HR10-250 can help.

[ahroberts]

Texster thanks!!!!

That got me in via the serial cable.....now what.

not too familiar with linux commands

it looks as though there was an issue with the usb 2.0 driver.

maybe thats why it worked at first and died after a reboot

how do i revert back to 1.1 drivers?

[ahroberts]

Here is the output from the serial port



CPU revision is: 00005430
FPU revision is: 00005410
Primary instruction cache 32kb, linesize 32 bytes.
Primary data cache 32kb, linesize 32 bytes.
Linux version 2.4.20 (build@buildmaster5) (gcc version 3.0) #22 Fri Feb 20 18:19
:25 PST 2004
Determined physical RAM map:
memory: 04000000 @ 00000000 (usable)
On node 0 totalpages: 16384
zone(0): 16384 pages.
zone(1): 0 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda4 dsscon=true console=2,115200 upgradesoftware
=false
Monotonic time calibrated
Calibrating delay loop... 161.79 BogoMIPS
Contiguous region 1: 8388608 bytes @ address 0x80d00000
Contiguous region 2: 1048576 bytes @ address 0x81500000
Contiguous region 8: 10485760 bytes @ address 0x81600000
Contiguous region of 19922944 bytes total reserved at 0x80d00000.
Memory: 43820k/65536k available (1222k kernel code, 21716k reserved, 81k data, 6
4k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
Buffer-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Checking for 'wait' instruction... unavailable.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
ttyS00 at iomem 0xb4100100 (irq = 79) is a 16550A
ttyS00 at port 0xbc010000 (irq = 133) is a unknown
ttyS00 at iomem 0xb4100140 (irq = 81) is a 16550A
ttyS00 at iomem 0xb4100120 (irq = 80) is a 16550A
Linux NET4.0 for Linux
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI en
abled
ttyS00 at 0xb4100100 (irq = 79) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0xbc010000 (irq = 133) is a unknown
ttyS02 at 0xb4100140 (irq = 81) is a 16550A
ttyS03 at 0xb4100120 (irq = 80) is a 16550A
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
hda: ST3120026A, ATA DI
ide0 at 0x400-0x407,0x438 on irq 87
hda: 234441648 sectors (120034 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=14593/255/63
Partition check:
hda: [mac] hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 hda9 hda10 hda11 hda12 hda13
hda14 hda15 hda16
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize
PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
PPP Deflate Compression module registered
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (establ
ip_conntrack version 2.1 (512 buckets, 4096 max) - 152 bytes per conntrack
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 64k freed
Starting rc.sysinit
Running boot Stage A_PreKickstart scripts
Scanning for configuration files
Invoking startup scripts for:
platform 'trinity'
implementation 'Series2'
implementer 'TiVo'
Releasing /initrd and clearing ramdisk, if they exist
warning: can't open /var/mtab: No such file or directory
umount: /initrd: not mounted
Activating swap partitions
Adding Swap: 130044k swap-space (priority -1)
Loading core system drivers
Parallel modem driver loaded, 1 ports starting at /dev/ttyS1
Loading ircatch
Found rev 'F' Si2433 modem on /dev/cua1
Checking for Kickstart panic signal
Running boot Stage B_PostKickstart scripts
Cleanup /dev/hda9 pass 1
ext2fs_check_if_mount: No such file or directory while determining whether /dev/
hda9 is mounted.
/dev/hda9 was not cleanly unmounted, check forced.
Inode 6148, i_blocks wrong 44 (counted=38). Set i_blocks to counted? yes

Inode 6158, i_blocks wrong 42 (counted=28). Set i_blocks to counted? yes

Inode 6146, i_blocks wrong 132 (counted=118). Set i_blocks to counted? yes

Inode 6152, i_blocks wrong 598 (counted=594). Set i_blocks to counted? yes

Inode 6155, i_blocks wrong 92 (counted=80). Set i_blocks to counted? yes

Fix summary information? yes

/dev/hda9: 524/32768 files (14.1% non-contiguous), 12355/13
Cleanup /dev/hda9 pass 2
ext2fs_check_if_mount: No such file or directory while determining whether /dev/
hda9 is mounted.
/dev/hda9: clean, 524/32768 files, 12355/131072 blocks
/dev/hda9 is clean after pass 2
Mounting /var
/dev/hda9 on /var type ext2 (rw)
Cleaning up files in /var
Checking space in /var
Mounting initial environment
Starting logging daemons
Found Silicon Labs "Si2433" modem, rev F, skipping modem patch
Scanning for phase1 repair scripts
Running boot Stage C_MediaInitialization scripts
Loading input section drivers
cobra module was successfully installed, LNBPA 0x10 LNBPB 0x16
Loading output section drivers
Splash the screen
Running boot Stage D_PreMfs scripts
Remote control is TIVO
MFS partition on /dev/hda10
Loading Trinity dssapp
Look for debug board
/tvbin/dssappAV: DSS Interface Version 1.24, compiled on Nov 12 2004
Loading irblast
Loading ideturbo
Loading fan
Loading therm
Loading TvBus router
Updating system clock
Time set to: Tue Dec 20 23:16:52 2005
Enabling local route
Setting TCP keepalive parameters
Checking for additional disk
Start fan control
First temperature parameters set:
Terminal temp: 71
Critical temp: 62
Logging temp: 60
Target temp: 50
Lowest fan speed: 7
/tvbin/fancontrol is running in the background.
Starting TvLauncher
PokeFirewallPort: Poking hole through firewall at port 2191, protocol tcp
iptables: No chain/target/match by that name
Waiting for launcher to start.
Launcher is running.
Scanning for phase2 repair scripts
Running boot Stage E_PreApplicati
Checking for database conversions
No upgrade to load
Not upgrading software
Scanning for phase3 repair scripts
Running boot Stage F_ApplicationLaunch scripts
Starting Services.
Microcode version is TiVo!
Found hpk front panel model 1
PCI: 00:0d.2 PCI cache line size set incorrectly (0 bytes) by BIOS/FW, correctin
g to 32
usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0xd5c/0xa002) is not claimed by any active driver
.

PokeFirewallPort: Poking hole through firewall at port 2190, protocol udp
iptables: No chain/target/match by tha
PokeFirewallPort: Poking hole through firewall at port 2190, protocol tcp
iptables: No chain/target/match by that name
using driver frame iter
ApgLogFrequency( 0 sec )
Finished creating ApgDriverFrameIter
Using a smartSorter!
Calling ReadStream()s
....started status session
Initialize with 2 live caches
AddInputSection 1
AddInputSection 2
TvMomMediaSwitchSource::DoSetup()
TvMomMediaSwitchSource::DoSetup()
AddInputSection 3
ApgManager Transition from state INIT to BOOT
....sending Booting event
....started status se
iptables: No chain/target/match by that name
Scanning for phase4 repair scripts
Running boot Stage G_PostApplication scripts
starting rc.sysinit.author
set environmental variables
starting telnet and ftp
starting serial bash
running fakecall
bash: no job control in this shell
bash-2.02# Running fakecall version 6
Fakecall ran successfully!
couldn't open "/var/spool/cron/cronlogs/CRONLOG-MAIN": no such file or directory

while executing
"open /var/spool/cron/cronlogs/CRONLOG-MAIN a"
(file "/busybox/fakecall.tcl" line 87)
EXT2-fs warning: maximal mount count reached, running e2fsck is recommended
/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit.author: cd: /var/hack/sbin: No such file or directory
/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit.author: ./ncidd: No such file or directory
/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit.author: cd: /var/hack/bin: No such file or directory
/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit.author: ./tivocid: No such file or directory
/enhancements/TWPrun.sh: /var/hack/tivowebplus/tivoweb: No such file or director
y
ApgManager Transition from state BOOT to FAST_LOAD
ApgManager Transition from state FAST_LOAD to FAST_LOAD
ApgManager Transition from state FAST_LOAD to FAST_LOAD
ApgManager Transition from state FAST_LOAD to FAST_LOAD
ApgManager Transition from state FAST_LOAD to STEADY_STATE
crond: /var/spool/cron/crontabs: No such file or directory
rc.sysinit is complete
....sending Done event
....sending Done event

bash-2.02#

[ahroberts]

OK, I figured out how to uninstall and reinstall tweaks, leaving out usb 2.0 drivers.
Still doesn't work though

Here's some additional info my tivo spit out

usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x2001/0x3702) is not claimed by any active drive
r.
init_module: prism2_usb.o: 0.1.14-pre6-tivo Loaded
init_module: dev_info is: prism2_usb
message=lnxreq_ifstate
ifstate=enable
resultcode=success

[Penyles]

I just want to know if there is a way to rename a saved program so that it's put in a folder. For instance. Put multiple kids shows (different shows) under one folder. Put Movies under another folder.

Thanks for any feedback.

Penyles

[ahroberts]

when reinstalling tweaks, it asks for network configuration, but there is nowhere to enter a ssid for a wireless network. how do i set ssid?

[JrFaust]

Well I feel dumb I bought a USB200M v2 and I did the USB 2.0 upgrade via zipper & tweak and no connection. :(

Anyone have a quick suggestion before I pack it back up and exchange it for a different one?

Thanks

[jspencer]

Whew 3 nights it taken me to get through these 67 pages of post. Actually most of it was good reading . So Rbautch I am about to zipper my HD10-250. I just upgraded it to two 300 gig drives. Do ya think everything is good to go with it having two large drives?

[austin61]

Well I feel dumb I bought a USB200M v2 and I did the USB 2.0 upgrade via zipper & tweak and no connection. :(

Anyone have a quick suggestion before I pack it back up and exchange it for a different one?

ThanksI'd recommend getting a Netgear FA120 adapter. It has a much better design than the USB200M which has a VERY flimsy and easily broken connector.

[KrazyKevin]

I get this message on boot and if I plug my WUSB11 v2.8 into the usb port after boot:

usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x2001/0x3702) is not claimed by any active drive
r.


Of course I can't get any wireless connection going. Does the above stated line mean that the usb device isn't recognized? Should I only update the usb drivers to 2.0 if I need them?

Everyother aspect of the zipper and tweaks went great. Just no wireless connection!!!

[rbautch]

when reinstalling tweaks, it asks for network configuration, but there is nowhere to enter a ssid for a wireless network. how do i set ssid?Run:tivosh /hacks/setSSIDwep.tcl

[rbautch]

I get this message on boot and if I plug my WUSB11 v2.8 into the usb port after boot:

usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x2001/0x3702) is not claimed by any active drive
r.


Of course I can't get any wireless connection going. Does the above stated line mean that the usb device isn't recognized? Should I only update the usb drivers to 2.0 if I need them?

Everyother aspect of the zipper and tweaks went great. Just no wireless connection!!! That error message can be ignored. The fact that it echoed the vend/prod code means that it's being recognized. Don't update to USB 2.0. Do you get a link light? Have you turned off WEP?

[rbautch]

OK, I figured out how to uninstall and reinstall tweaks, leaving out usb 2.0 drivers.
Still doesn't work though

Here's some additional info my tivo spit out

usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x2001/0x3702) is not claimed by any active drive
r.
init_module: prism2_usb.o: 0.1.14-pre6-tivo Loaded
init_module: dev_info is: prism2_usb
message=lnxreq_ifstate
ifstate=enable
resultcode=success This output is all normal.

[KrazyKevin]

Yes I get a link light. I've tried with WEP turned off. Are you telling me not to install the 2.0 drivers?

[n4zmz]

I'm not sure why this would happen, since I use a wildcard in the check (superpatch*).
Fixed this typo, thanks.
My change was to make it look like this: if [ ! -e /cdrom/superpatch*tcl ]; then
It could have something to do with the sh on the PTVupgrade CD.

Off to upgrade my wife's DTivo. I'll have to upgrade the usb.map to support my Airlink ASOHOUSB.

[rbautch]

Yes I get a link light. I've tried with WEP turned off. Are you telling me not to install the 2.0 drivers? With a wireless adapter, you won't see much increase in speed with usb 2.0 drivers, but since you get a link light that's obviously not the problem. If you see a link light, but can't telnet, it's usually one of the following:
1. WEP is set on your router, but not on tivo.
2. Telnet is not running on your Tivo.
3. You're telnetting to the wrong IP address
4. Your PC's firewall is blocking access.

Can you ping the tivo from your PC?

[rbautch]

Where can I purchase a commemorative Gunnyman snow globe? :D

[rpdre1]

Well I feel dumb I bought a USB200M v2 and I did the USB 2.0 upgrade via zipper & tweak and no connection. :(

Anyone have a quick suggestion before I pack it back up and exchange it for a different one?

Thanks


hopefully rbautch can come up with a new zipper version that will install usb 2.0 in the first part of the script, i think it could be added into the inital script that installs bash and tivoftpd when the drive is back running on the tivo. it should be easy enough to implement. most likely you will have to reboot the tivo after first bootup with the zipper for usb 2.0 (i think you have to reboot with the current version).

maybe out2osd can be included too so we can get a message on the screen that doesnt go away saying "first part of zipper complete, reboot me for usb 2.0"





on another note, i just zipperd my tivo last night for the first time, there was i got an error on the joe installation part (something like cp: /enhancements/.joerc No such file or directory) , i stopped the script, ran uninstall, then i used the enhancement script in the other thread. i didnt get the problem again.

before i ran tweak.sh i tested out the ftp speeds (got 700k-900k), now after the script (rebooted when it was done) i still get those speeds (tried access card pull and standby too), any quick pointers rbautch? a quick look around and i see usb 2.0 is running according to the kernel log i saw in twp.

/lib/modules/backups-orig/ has older/smaller size versions of the files in /lib/modules/, so the script did replace those files, thats about as far as my troubleshooting went?????

im using a fa-120, wired connection.

thanks for the zipper gunny and rbautch, i prolly would of not gotten this far without it.

mfs_ftp: here i come :)