Where's the BeeF -?- Drive upgrade

[illness]

I have a SAT T-60 DirecTivo, to make a long story short...My Tivo A drive kicked-over and I've imaged a new seagate 120G... The image is from Mfs tools, the ones on the Boot cd at hinsdale.

Okay, everything is good except that my 120G drive shows variable up
to 35 hours.I think this should be closer to a 100 hours.

I've did this hack before, but I copied from the A drive to the larger drive.

So where am I going wrong?

[Gunnyman]

did you use mfsrestore -s127 -r4 -xzpi as your command?

[Nick B]

What is the level of effort to use the Hughes HDVR2 just as a hard drive based video recorder without Direct TV or TiVo?

[ForrestB]

Nick,
It's impossible - the DirecTivo's have 2 Digital tuners designed to receive and decrypt data from the DirecTV satellites. There are no analog tuners in DirecTivo's so you won't be able to digitize an analog signal from over the air TV, etc.

[illness]

did you use mfsrestore -s127 -r4 -xzpi as your command?


no, I did this:

mfstool restore -zi /mnt/dos/tivo.bak /dev/hdb

where hdb is my target 120G drive.

Gunnyman, can you explain what your suggestion does different from the command I used?

[Gunnyman]

the -s makes a swap file
the -r 4 uses 4K blocks (I think)
the -x expands the image.
I dunno what the p does. But that's why your image didn't expand correctly.

[gonzotek]

According to another forum, -p is 'optimize partition layout".
MFSRESTORE

Usage: mfsrestore [options] Adrive [Bdrive]

Options:

-h Display this help message
-i file Input from file, - for stdin
-p Optimize partition layout
-x Expand the backup to fill the drive(s)
-X scale Expand the backup with block size scale
-q Do not display progress
-qq Do not display anything but error messages
-v size Recreate /var as size megabytes (Only if not in backup)
-s size Recreate swap as size megabytes
-l Leave at least 2 partitions free
-b Force no byte swapping on restore
-B Force byte swapping on restore
-z Zero out partitions not backed up

[Gunnyman]

Thank's Gonzo :)

[illness]

This is weird, now my 40G drive A drive I thought was dead is now working....?
My Tivo was not able to make it past the "Welcome, Powering Up" screen yesterday.

I guess if I want to keep my shows I should go back and do a dd copy? I guess I should be OK now, I can just go back and do a normal drive upgrade.

thanks all...

[classicsat]

If you want an HDD based non TiVo standalone DVR, simply go buy such a DVR, disconnect the Hughes unit, and conenct the new unit.

[Nick B]

ForrestB
Thanks for the comment. That is what I thought, but was just hoping - - -

[gonzotek]

Thank's Gonzo :)de nada :)

[Thom]

-X scale Expand the backup with block size scale

is wrong. Use " -r scale ", not " -X scale".

-r 0 (MFS media diskspace is allocated in 1 MB blocks)
-r 1 (MFS media diskspace is allocated in 2 MB blocks)
-r 2 (MFS media diskspace is allocated in 4 MB blocks)
-r 3 (MFS media diskspace is allocated in 8 MB blocks)
-r 4 (MFS media diskspace is allocated in 16 MB blocks)

[gonzotek]

is wrong. Use " -r scale ", not " -X scale".

-r 0 (MFS media diskspace is allocated in 1 MB blocks)
-r 1 (MFS media diskspace is allocated in 2 MB blocks)
-r 2 (MFS media diskspace is allocated in 4 MB blocks)
-r 3 (MFS media diskspace is allocated in 8 MB blocks)
-r 4 (MFS media diskspace is allocated in 16 MB blocks)
That's correct according the readme in the MFStools 2.0 zip file I just pulled from sourceforge. The post I originally pulled it from apparently had it wrong. However, I'm not able to test to verify right now. That'll teach me to use forum references when I could use more direct ones.

[illness]

what the fudge are you people taling about?

[gonzotek]

The quote I posted with the commandline switches for MFSRESTORE (post #7 (http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?p=4031712&&#post4031712) ) contained an incorrect command. Thom caught the error and I acknowledged that he was right, at least according to the primary source (MFSTOOLS 2.0 from sourceforge.net).

None of it has any bearing on your original questions, and I apologize for thread-jacking and spreading mis-information. :)

[illness]

My tivo has been sitting around for about 3 years, I don't think my factory A drive was bad at all.

My software was 2.5.2 or somthing and now it's 3.2c or something close to that. I think my dtivo was rebooting in order to install all the updates.

After all the rebooting, the tivo made a call in and came back with a message that it was updating the database...You know you're in deep fudge when the tivo says, "This will take a long time." 4 hours!