Question about max DirecTivo capacity

[Doomster]

I have several Series 2 DirecTivos (HDVR-2 or SD-DVR40s)

I thought that the max HD you could use is 250GB - you could use more but because of the addressing limitation of the underlying Linux SW, you would be wasting spare capacity if you used a bigger HD.

But then I see this: http://www.weaknees.com/directv-tivo.php

Weaknees selling R10 Tivos with 500+ hours of capacity.

Since Series 2 DirecTivos are in the R10 family, could I use a bigger HD (say a 500Gb one) and increase my Tivo capacity to more than 240 hours?

Doomster

[rminsk]

Before LBA48 support you could only address the first 137 GB of a drive. Now that 6.2 has LBA48 support it could theoretically support 2 TB per drive.

[Jonathan_S]

IIRC if you have a drive bigger than 250, and you if want it to be able try to recover from a green screen crash, you need to do some extra work to get the swap size large enough. (The normal upgrade tool can't make a big enough swap partition).

But if you bought a drop in replacement drive from weaknees that should be an issue.

[Doomster]

IIRC if you have a drive bigger than 250, and you if want it to be able try to recover from a green screen crash, you need to do some extra work to get the swap size large enough. (The normal upgrade tool can't make a big enough swap partition).

But if you bought a drop in replacement drive from weaknees that should be an issue.
I haven't tried to upgrade anything yet.

Would I have a problem if for example, I bought a 500Gb HD and used InstantCake to bake it, then drop it into one of my DirecTivos?

[Dkerr24]

The swap file will work fine with 127mb... There is another thread about that on this website discussing that issue. I believe a weaknees rep is the one who made that statement.

I've been using 127mb swap file with my 300gb drive for over 6 months without any lockups.

[cashion]

The swap file will work fine with 127mb... There is another thread about that on this website discussing that issue. I believe a weaknees rep is the one who made that statement.

I've been using 127mb swap file with my 300gb drive for over 6 months without any lockups.

The system will work fine with a 127mb swap, though the problem occurs if the unit ever goes "green screen" and attempts to fix itself. If you don't have enough swap in that scenario, be prepared to rebuild.

[wscannell]

If you do go to the green screen, your hard drive is probably failing, so rebuilding is probably inevitable at that point.

[bnm81002]

so it seems to me that basically a larger swap file is unnecessary correct?

[Dkerr24]

so it seems to me that basically a larger swap file is unnecessary correct?

Definitely.

[rminsk]

If you do go to the green screen, your hard drive is probably failing, so rebuilding is probably inevitable at that point.If the MFS database get corrupted you will have a green screen. I have had green screens from power outages.