barrese
06-22-2006, 10:08 AM
Hello,
I was trying to upgrade my Philips DSR7000 HD to a 300GB one and have encounters some problems and would appreciate anyone's help to get things straightened out. A couple of years ago I upgraded the stock HD to a 137 GB one (actually 160 GB locked at 137 GB due to the old kernel HD size restriction). I used the Hinsdale guide for that and it went smoothly. So now I checked the Hinsdale guide, the weakness guide, and this forum to see how I'd due my currently upgrade. I thought I had it figured out and all I had to due was enter:
mfsbackup -Tao - /dev/hda | mfsrestore -s 200 -r 4 -xzpi - /dev/hdc
where the old drive was on the Primary master (hda) and the new drive the Secondary master (hdc) and 200MB for the swap file. Note that I want to preserve all my old recordings.
I tried using both the weaknees_lba_boot_cd.iso and the ptvlba48-4.04.iso but when I tried both I got:
source drive size is 40 hours
- Upgraded to 147 hours
Uncompressed backup size: 128755 megabytes
Restore failed: backup target not large enough for entire backup by itself
This seemed odd because the new drive was twice the size of the old one. I checked to make sure the drive sizes were being detected correctly and they were:
hda 268435455 sectors (137439 MB)
hdc 586072368 sectors (300069 MB)
So then I tried the command without the -r 4 because that's how the Hinsdale guide had it. Still didn't work. Then I checked back on these forums and searched for "backup target no large enough" and got a post that suggested the -x might not be needed if the old drive had previously been expanded. So then I tried the command as:
mfsbackup -Tao - /dev/hda | mfsrestore -s 200 -r 4 -zpi - /dev/hdc
That copied the 128755 megabyte image of the old drive to the new one, however when I msfinfo the new drive I get that it only has a recording capacity of 147 hrs and a drive size of around 130000MB so it looks like the full 300GB isn't being recognized.
I would appreciate any help to tell me what I did wrong and what I need to do to get the new drive's size fully recognized. Do I need to redo the whole copy proceedure using a different command or is there any way to expand the new drive so it recognizes the full 300GB? I'm sort of confused at this point.
Thanks,
Jim
I was trying to upgrade my Philips DSR7000 HD to a 300GB one and have encounters some problems and would appreciate anyone's help to get things straightened out. A couple of years ago I upgraded the stock HD to a 137 GB one (actually 160 GB locked at 137 GB due to the old kernel HD size restriction). I used the Hinsdale guide for that and it went smoothly. So now I checked the Hinsdale guide, the weakness guide, and this forum to see how I'd due my currently upgrade. I thought I had it figured out and all I had to due was enter:
mfsbackup -Tao - /dev/hda | mfsrestore -s 200 -r 4 -xzpi - /dev/hdc
where the old drive was on the Primary master (hda) and the new drive the Secondary master (hdc) and 200MB for the swap file. Note that I want to preserve all my old recordings.
I tried using both the weaknees_lba_boot_cd.iso and the ptvlba48-4.04.iso but when I tried both I got:
source drive size is 40 hours
- Upgraded to 147 hours
Uncompressed backup size: 128755 megabytes
Restore failed: backup target not large enough for entire backup by itself
This seemed odd because the new drive was twice the size of the old one. I checked to make sure the drive sizes were being detected correctly and they were:
hda 268435455 sectors (137439 MB)
hdc 586072368 sectors (300069 MB)
So then I tried the command without the -r 4 because that's how the Hinsdale guide had it. Still didn't work. Then I checked back on these forums and searched for "backup target no large enough" and got a post that suggested the -x might not be needed if the old drive had previously been expanded. So then I tried the command as:
mfsbackup -Tao - /dev/hda | mfsrestore -s 200 -r 4 -zpi - /dev/hdc
That copied the 128755 megabyte image of the old drive to the new one, however when I msfinfo the new drive I get that it only has a recording capacity of 147 hrs and a drive size of around 130000MB so it looks like the full 300GB isn't being recognized.
I would appreciate any help to tell me what I did wrong and what I need to do to get the new drive's size fully recognized. Do I need to redo the whole copy proceedure using a different command or is there any way to expand the new drive so it recognizes the full 300GB? I'm sort of confused at this point.
Thanks,
Jim