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grayknight
08-08-2006, 05:07 PM
I have a Sony SVR-2000 and have already gone thru a capacity upgrade a few years ago (orig 40gb drive to a wd 160gb drive). I recently had to pull the drive (bloody thing took reverted the var partition which had erased my tivoweb and other things that i cant mention here running in it).

When I hooked up the drive to my pc and booted to a floppy to rebuild the var partition, i saw a SMART error msg saying that the drive was starting to fail and should be replaced.

I was thinking about replacing the drive with a larger drive (320gb seagate 7200.10 to be exact) and i want to try to keep my recordings that are currently on the tivo.

I know that with a series 2, you can only go thru a capacity upgrade once but i dont know if the same holds true to the series 1's ( if it doesnt, approx how many times can a drive be upgraded and keep recordings?)

(sorry if this kind of question has been asked before as i tried to make search my friend before posting)
wscannell
08-08-2006, 11:46 PM
A series 1 should be able to be upgraded twice.
grayknight
08-09-2006, 10:25 AM
A series 1 should be able to be upgraded twice.

sweet, thanks for the quick reply....

i was hoping i would be able to go thru another hd upgrade...

now i have a bit more time to save my recordings another way so i can can pull them off upgrade the drive as many times as i want and then put them back (and hopefully keep the show info)
DougF
08-09-2006, 03:54 PM
Just remember that, as-is, it will only see 137GB of the 320GB drive. You'd have to install a different kernel to use the rest of that space, I believe.

If you don't plan on doing that, you probably should just use another 160GB drive.
grayknight
08-10-2006, 10:23 AM
Just remember that, as-is, it will only see 137GB of the 320GB drive. You'd have to install a different kernel to use the rest of that space, I believe.

If you don't plan on doing that, you probably should just use another 160GB drive.

dougf, you are correct..to use the full drive id have to use a lba48-aware kernel which i plan to get from PTVupgrade LBA48 Boot Disk (version 4.04).