Upgrade from 160 to 320

[gjwell]

Hi,

I'm trying to upgrade from a 160G to a 320G HD, copying all the data including recordings. I have tried the following command

mfstool backup -Tao - /dev/hdc | msftool restore -s 255 -pxi - /dev/hda

also

mfstool backup -Tao - /dev/hdc | msftool restore -s 300 -r 4 -pxi - /dev/hda

the sorce has the LBA 48 Kernal installed.

It gets to about 6% then crashes out with a Kernel panic : Aiee killing interrupt handler.

has anyone tried this? is there a better way to do do this upgrade? i.e. make an image first then restore?

any help appreciated :)

[blindlemon]

Kernel panic : Aiee killing interrupt handler.This can be caused by inabiility of the linux kernel to handle interrupts from many devices in a hurry. If you have a LAN card in your machine, try removing it. I don't think it's anything to do with Mfstools or your TiVo drive per-se.

You could also try putting the drives on different IDE ports or disabling DMA on one or both of them to force it to go a bit slower.

[gjwell]

Thanks I’ll give that a try. I did notice another command I could use to achieve this

# dd if=/dev/hdc of=/dev/hda bs=1024k

however I’m not sure how this will work with larger drives?