Upgrading Humax Tivo

[bjbill]

I recently purchased a Humax DRT-80 Tivo with a DVD recorder and a 80GB HD.

I would like to upgrade the HD but I would like advice on whether I should stick with a Maxtor Quickview HD (300GB max.) or use a Seagate 500GB HD.

The reason I ask is I have a Replay Tv I Upgraded with a 200GB Seagate HD, and when it got close to filling up it lost all programming. I still don't know if the type of HD I was using was responsible for the failure or if the problem was elsewhere.

I would like to upgrade to the largest possible HD but not at the expense of being more likely to lose any programming because of HD issues.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

[classicsat]

Get any decent sized name brand PATA HDD and use it single, and you will be fine.

[dumpav]

i also have this humax tivo and want to replace the 80G to a 300G seagate.

I want to know which boot up cd i should use? the weaknees cd or the cd from Hinsdale?

Also do i need to hookup the pc with a pc drive?

hda Primary Master = hdX > Original TiVo drive
hdb Primary Slave = hdY > no drive or FAT drive?
hdc Secondary Master = hdZ > NEW 300G seagate
hdd Secondary Slave = hdW > boot up cd rom

and use these commad?

mount /dev/hdW1 /mnt

then

mfsbackup -f 9999 -1so /mnt/backup.bak /dev/hdX

then

mfsadd -r 4 -x /dev/hdX /dev/hdZ


thanks

also do i need to insert special command for large swap space (300G drive)?

thanks

[slaponte]

The steps you list are to ADD the 300GB as a secondary drive. This is (probably) not what you want. You need to look at

mfsbackup ..... | mfsrestore

Notes to look up :

- the swap file requirement is higher for a bigger hard disk. You need to go with 150MB of swap for 300Gb drive, and 250MB for the 500GB drive.

- mfsretore will not initialize swap > 127 properly. So after the mfsrestore command you will need to run a command called TPIP to initialize it.

- The above command "pipe" leaves your original 80Gb alone and undamaged as a backup. So if something goes wrong, you still have the orig and can redo the process.

- There is a long thread about this with step by step instructions around, including TPIP and where to find it.

[slaponte]

Here is my old post about the swap :

A) When do you need extra swap? If total disk space will be 128Gb or more, you need more swap. If you don't configure the right amount of swap, under certain conditions, your Tivo might crash and you will most likely loose all your recordings.

B) How much do you need? You need 1MB per every 2GB of total disk.

C) Sequence of commands to add the swap and or fix headers?

Use mfsrestore flag "-s" to set swap size. Up to a value of 127 it will work fine. So that covers up to 254GB total disk. If your total disk will be larger than 254Gb, then you need to

- specify new size on the mfsrestore. (Example, "-s 200" creates 200MB swap for a 400Gb disk).

- run TPIP to initialize the swap header

tpip --version shows the version number you have

tpip V1.1 : tpip --swapped -s /dev/hd?

tpip V1.2 : tpip -1 -s /dev/hd?

Tpip can be downloaded from the web (V1.2) and is also found (v1.1) in the PTV Upgrade ISO CD image.

(Since this post, the tpip web site went down and I don't know if it ever came back up. I think I have both in my HD somewhere (at home). You can use v1.1, it works fine).

[dumpav]

Here is my old post about the swap :

A) When do you need extra swap? If total disk space will be 128Gb or more, you need more swap. If you don't configure the right amount of swap, under certain conditions, your Tivo might crash and you will most likely loose all your recordings.

B) How much do you need? You need 1MB per every 2GB of total disk.

C) Sequence of commands to add the swap and or fix headers?

Use mfsrestore flag "-s" to set swap size. Up to a value of 127 it will work fine. So that covers up to 254GB total disk. If your total disk will be larger than 254Gb, then you need to

- specify new size on the mfsrestore. (Example, "-s 200" creates 200MB swap for a 400Gb disk).

- run TPIP to initialize the swap header

tpip --version shows the version number you have

tpip V1.1 : tpip --swapped -s /dev/hd?

tpip V1.2 : tpip -1 -s /dev/hd?

Tpip can be downloaded from the web (V1.2) and is also found (v1.1) in the PTV Upgrade ISO CD image.

(Since this post, the tpip web site went down and I don't know if it ever came back up. I think I have both in my HD somewhere (at home). You can use v1.1, it works fine).

thanks

some guy also remind me, what i am doing wrong, when i click the setting i choose the wrong one, what i really want is replacing the old tivo drive. But i click adding the drive.

regarding the swap drive do i need to enter those tpip command seperately?

or i can do it all if i run the following command instead; when i copy to the 300G drive?

mfsbackup -f 9999 -so - /dev/hdX | mfsrestore -s 150 -r 4 -xzpi - /dev/hdZ

(and hook old tivo to primary Master as hdX; and new 300G to secondary Master as hdZ, where should i put the cd rom?)

[slaponte]

After your command

mfsbackup -f 9999 -so - /dev/hdX | mfsrestore -s 150 -r 4 -xzpi - /dev/hdZ

You would run the tpip command :

tpip --swapped -s /dev/hdZ

Assuming you have Tpip v1.1 which is the one in the PTV upgrade CD.

In some machines the CD ROm can be in any position, in some you need to be the secondary master. If you don't have any other drives, just make sure to boot from CD and place it on either secondary, doesn't matter which.