Twitch17
09-23-2006, 06:17 PM
Just a follow up to let anyone that might see the post that I found the problem. It turns out it was the two new Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 drives, and their inability to work together in Philips series 1 SA as dual drives. I had tried for over a week using mfsrestore, dd copy, Tivomad and many different types of boot CD’s and floppy’s to do a copy of two 80 gig WD’s to two new Seagate 160’s and preserve recordings to no avail. I finally gave up on my shows and just tried a standard restore of my original Quantum drive and it’s image. When with many different copy methods I still couldn’t get it to work I REALLY got frustrated. It would copy to the A drive fine, but when I tried marrying and expanding the B drive it wouldn’t boot up. I tried a different tivo, different ribbon cables, cable select jumper settings, low level format and still no go. I then tried a new Hitachi 160 drive that just came in the mail as the B drive and bang first time success with no problems! I’m not sure if anyone even uses dual drive systems anymore or if they would act the same in later series Tivo’s but beware using two in series one. Knowing that the LBA48 is now available I probably wouldn’t have used a dual drive format, but not working on any of my stand alones in years I didn’t know they had busted the 137 gig partition problem. I liked the Seagate’s 5 year warranty and was the reason I selected the drive in the first place, but sure sorry I did now.