Robdalec
02-04-2006, 04:09 PM
First off, let me thank everyone on here who helped me get this accomplished. Even though I had every set of instructions I could download they still did not cover my scenario, so I would have been in deep trouble without you.
Here is what I purchased to do the upgrade:
Weaknees twinbreeze complete, with power trip
Two Hitachi 500GB PATA hard drives ($379.95 each at CompUSA)
First I downloaded both the Weaknees and PTV ISO images and burned bootable CD’s. I then attached the two Hitachi drives to the Weaknees bracket and attached them to my PC on the secondary IDE port. The original drive was then removed from the Tivo and attached to my PC on the primary IDE port as the master. I attempted to boot the system with the Weaknees CD in my SCSI CD drive, and it was recognized as a bootable CD but would not boot. I then did the same thing with the PTV CD and it booted just fine. I then keyed in the command from the Weaknees instructions to perform the upgrade:
Mfsbackup –Tao - /dev/hda | mfsrestore –s 127 –xzpi - /dev/hdc /dev/hdd
Everything started right up and ran for nine hours. The system is an AMD Athlon XP3200+ with 512mb memory.
I then detached my new drives from the PC and installed them in the Tivo. I must say the Weaknees hardware and their instructions for installing it were excellent.
Powered up the Tivo and up came the “startup screen” for a few minutes, then the “just a few more minutes screen”, and then the green screen of death for a few seconds. The Tivo then powered off and started the whole process again. This continued until I removed the power. I checked all of my connections and the jumpers and finding nothing wrong, posted my dilemma on the Tivo Forums. In no time at all I had the information that I needed. To support the large drives I needed to add the –r 4 parameter. I did a little more reading in the forums and found that people were creating swapfiles larger than 127 mb and using TPIP to format them correctly. I posted a question about this and the unanimous response was that I needed to create the extra swap space.
So I then had to go through the whole process again. However, since I had problems booting from the SCSI CD drive I decided to cable my old Tivo drive as the slave on the primary IDE port and my IDE DVD drive as the master. This allowed me to boot the Weaknees CD, which I decided I would use this time.
Got everything attached to the PC, booted it, and attempted to run the command with the new options. mfsrestore failed giving me a list of valid options. I initially thought that it was something to do with the –s 500 parameter for the swap file size but after running it with smaller sizes realized that was not the problem. Did still more reading and realized that I had the –r 4 parameter where it didn’t belong and that was the issue. (Hey, I work with Microsoft Windows and IBM OS/400 every day, but this Linux stiff is all Greek to me. )
Anyway, here is the command that worked:
Mfsbackup –Tao - /dev/hdb | mfsrestore –r 4 –s 500 –xzpi - /dev/hdc /dev/hdd
I keyed this in and then went to bed for 9 hours while it ran. When it was done it indicated that everything had run correctly including the creation of a 500mb swap file. All I had to do now is run TPIP.
I keyed in the TPIP -–version command to see which version was on the Weaknees CD so I knew what parameters to use, and it turned out there was NO version of TPIP on the CD. So I powered down the PC, and booted it with the PTV CD where I found TPIP version 1.1 installed. Here is the command I used.
TPIP -–swapped –s /dev/hdc
This only took a few seconds and indicated that I now had a correctly formatted swap file of 500mb.
Installed the new drives in the Tivo and powered it up. Got the starting up screen, the just a few more minutes screen and NO GSOD! It worked!
Everything was there including the episode of Rollergirls I had watched half of.
I went into system information and it showed “recording time variable, up to 1150 hours”
I also immediately noticed that everything was running faster. Even switching between channels has speeded up somewhat. I assume this is because of the large block size on the disks, but could be wrong. Perhaps the Hitachi drives are just faster than the original Maxtor they replaced.
So now I have a Tivo with 1000GB of storage. (Sorry – I won’t use the term “terabyte” because it isn’t a terabyte unless there’s 1024GB.)
Hopefully by posting this it will help someone else that is trying to do this just like everyone helped me.
Now some of these cheap TCD540040's on eBay are looking even better.....
Thanks again eveyone!
Here is what I purchased to do the upgrade:
Weaknees twinbreeze complete, with power trip
Two Hitachi 500GB PATA hard drives ($379.95 each at CompUSA)
First I downloaded both the Weaknees and PTV ISO images and burned bootable CD’s. I then attached the two Hitachi drives to the Weaknees bracket and attached them to my PC on the secondary IDE port. The original drive was then removed from the Tivo and attached to my PC on the primary IDE port as the master. I attempted to boot the system with the Weaknees CD in my SCSI CD drive, and it was recognized as a bootable CD but would not boot. I then did the same thing with the PTV CD and it booted just fine. I then keyed in the command from the Weaknees instructions to perform the upgrade:
Mfsbackup –Tao - /dev/hda | mfsrestore –s 127 –xzpi - /dev/hdc /dev/hdd
Everything started right up and ran for nine hours. The system is an AMD Athlon XP3200+ with 512mb memory.
I then detached my new drives from the PC and installed them in the Tivo. I must say the Weaknees hardware and their instructions for installing it were excellent.
Powered up the Tivo and up came the “startup screen” for a few minutes, then the “just a few more minutes screen”, and then the green screen of death for a few seconds. The Tivo then powered off and started the whole process again. This continued until I removed the power. I checked all of my connections and the jumpers and finding nothing wrong, posted my dilemma on the Tivo Forums. In no time at all I had the information that I needed. To support the large drives I needed to add the –r 4 parameter. I did a little more reading in the forums and found that people were creating swapfiles larger than 127 mb and using TPIP to format them correctly. I posted a question about this and the unanimous response was that I needed to create the extra swap space.
So I then had to go through the whole process again. However, since I had problems booting from the SCSI CD drive I decided to cable my old Tivo drive as the slave on the primary IDE port and my IDE DVD drive as the master. This allowed me to boot the Weaknees CD, which I decided I would use this time.
Got everything attached to the PC, booted it, and attempted to run the command with the new options. mfsrestore failed giving me a list of valid options. I initially thought that it was something to do with the –s 500 parameter for the swap file size but after running it with smaller sizes realized that was not the problem. Did still more reading and realized that I had the –r 4 parameter where it didn’t belong and that was the issue. (Hey, I work with Microsoft Windows and IBM OS/400 every day, but this Linux stiff is all Greek to me. )
Anyway, here is the command that worked:
Mfsbackup –Tao - /dev/hdb | mfsrestore –r 4 –s 500 –xzpi - /dev/hdc /dev/hdd
I keyed this in and then went to bed for 9 hours while it ran. When it was done it indicated that everything had run correctly including the creation of a 500mb swap file. All I had to do now is run TPIP.
I keyed in the TPIP -–version command to see which version was on the Weaknees CD so I knew what parameters to use, and it turned out there was NO version of TPIP on the CD. So I powered down the PC, and booted it with the PTV CD where I found TPIP version 1.1 installed. Here is the command I used.
TPIP -–swapped –s /dev/hdc
This only took a few seconds and indicated that I now had a correctly formatted swap file of 500mb.
Installed the new drives in the Tivo and powered it up. Got the starting up screen, the just a few more minutes screen and NO GSOD! It worked!
Everything was there including the episode of Rollergirls I had watched half of.
I went into system information and it showed “recording time variable, up to 1150 hours”
I also immediately noticed that everything was running faster. Even switching between channels has speeded up somewhat. I assume this is because of the large block size on the disks, but could be wrong. Perhaps the Hitachi drives are just faster than the original Maxtor they replaced.
So now I have a Tivo with 1000GB of storage. (Sorry – I won’t use the term “terabyte” because it isn’t a terabyte unless there’s 1024GB.)
Hopefully by posting this it will help someone else that is trying to do this just like everyone helped me.
Now some of these cheap TCD540040's on eBay are looking even better.....
Thanks again eveyone!