TCD540080 Series 2 limiting drive, need help

[yeahimsteve]

Hey all,

I have a TCD540080 Series 2 (orig. 80GB) that I successfully upgraded to a 250GB hard drive....except when I look in the system information under "recording capacity," it says, "Variable - up to 142 hours."

Now from this upgrade site (this site won't let me post the link to it - digitalinsurrection), it says that my model does not have a 137GB hard drive limit.

Here is the command that I used to copy my 80GB to the 250GB in mfstools:

#mfsbackup -aqo - /dev/hdc | mfsrestore -xpi - /dev/hda


There were many recordings on the tivo too, so this number in system information isn't showing how much space is left, is it?

I'm wondering with the command I used, should I have a full 250GB capacity on a TCD540080 series 2 tivo?

[funtoupgrade]

Depends on whether or not the software you used for backup/restore is LBA48 enabled or not.

[mick66]

You must not be using an lba48 boot cd. Download the free LBA48 cd from this site and start over.
http://www.dvrupgrade.com/dvr/stores/1/lba48_support.cfm

This time use this command
http://tivo.upgrade-instructions.com/index.php
mfsbackup -Tao - /dev/hdc | mfsrestore -s 127 -r 4 -xzpi - /dev/hda

[yeahimsteve]

Mick, thanks so much, I'm doing as you say right now, and will let you know if it was successful! Thank you so much for such a detailed answer! :up: