Maxtor QuickView

[ETD66SS]

I bought a Maxtor 300 GB Quick View HD to replace the failed 160 GB Maxtor HD in my HDR 112.

I notice on the label it says DiamondMax 10.

I assume this drive will not work in my series 1 TIVO?

[HomeUser]

It should be a 6L300R0 which is a DiamondMax 10.
http://www.maxtor.com/_files/maxtor/en_us/documentation/data_sheets/quickview_data_sheet.pdf

I do not know if any of the series 1 TiVos have a kernel that supports LBA48, If not I think there is a mod somewhere.

[litzdog911]

Sure, it will work in your Series 1. But your Tivo will only "see" 137GB of its capacity.

[ETD66SS]

Ok, well I upgraded my TIVO last year with dual 160's and was able to use LBA48.

I was just not expecting the QV HD to say DiamondMax 10 on it.

It is indeed a 6L300R0.

Thx for the info...

Oh, one more thing...

One of the 160 was skipping, I have a ton of recorded shows on them.

Will I be able to go from dual 160's to a single 300 and save all my programs?

The TIVO was stuck in an endless reboot loop. Should I assume those recordings are lost?

[HomeUser]

You might be able to recover the bad drive with something like SpinRite then dd the failing drive to the new drive keeping the pair intact. I do not know of any way to go from dual drives back to a single drive keeping recordings without off-loading the recordings somewhere.

[ETD66SS]

You might be able to recover the bad drive with something like SpinRite then dd the failing drive to the new drive keeping the pair intact. I do not know of any way to go from dual drives back to a single drive keeping recordings without off-loading the recordings somewhere.

Well, the recordings are not that important I guess.

I want to go back to a single drive, as I think heat definitely had something to do with the dual 160 setup.

They were dual 5400 RPM drives, and I did do the acoustic setting, as well as modify the TIVO case and put HD fans blowing on the drives...

I now have the TIVO running with the original A back in it, and the latest software.

I'll just do a single to single upgrade, cache card, etc No recordings...

Thank you all for your help.