SalsabyJake
10-22-2007, 03:07 PM
Hi Forum Members,
I started seeing occasional resets of my Tivo 540140 unit and purchased a new 250GB Seagate drive for replacement of the existing 120GB drive. Burned the Weaknees CD.
I installed old and new drives in a PC with NO other drives and booted from CDrom. I had to adjust bios settings to turn off SATA support before the drives were recognized as hda and hdb. I also turned off DMA which may have been a mistake since copy took forever... Then, as per instructions issued command
mfsbackup -Tao - /dev/hda | mfsrestore -s 127 -r 4 -xzpi - /dev/hdb
and a mere 60 hours later, it was done! Not sure why it would take so long. In the process, right at the start, the programs found some bad sectors (perhaps a dozen) and said the copy could not be done, but it didn't quit and finished eventually.
After re-install, the Tivo had all of my programs and season passes, but there is some strange behavior now:
1. Whenever it starts, it says "Installing a new service update. This will take a few minutes."
2. There are no network features anymore (Music, Photos, etc) on main screen
3. On Phone/Network settings, the Last Status is always shown as "Pending Restart"
4. If I try to Change Network Setting or Test Network, I get message "unavailable until a scheduled software update occurs at 2am"
5. There are no programs scheduled to record in ToDo List. All of my season pass programs are shown but with "None Scheduled" and one of them is shown as being scheduled online and it was not.
6. In Season Pass under upcoming episodes, it said show was on a channel that is not available, yet the Channel List is correct for me (DirectTV)
Version 8.3-01-2-540
Capacity is shown correctly as being bigger at "up to 287 hours" now.
When I tried to run the Tivo Setup Procedure again, the unit re-booted and it was back to the same condition. I've connected to Tivo Service 3-4 times already (first time took maybe 40 minutes to load stuff) and it has no effect.
SO, what have I done wrong? Is there a way to fsck or fix the existing disk bad sectors (map to others) before the copy? Was the copy done incorrectly to save everything? While all my stuff is there, the operation is now incorrect. Do I need to do a dd_rescue instead? Does that work to increase capacity? Any suggestions appreciated....
Jake
I started seeing occasional resets of my Tivo 540140 unit and purchased a new 250GB Seagate drive for replacement of the existing 120GB drive. Burned the Weaknees CD.
I installed old and new drives in a PC with NO other drives and booted from CDrom. I had to adjust bios settings to turn off SATA support before the drives were recognized as hda and hdb. I also turned off DMA which may have been a mistake since copy took forever... Then, as per instructions issued command
mfsbackup -Tao - /dev/hda | mfsrestore -s 127 -r 4 -xzpi - /dev/hdb
and a mere 60 hours later, it was done! Not sure why it would take so long. In the process, right at the start, the programs found some bad sectors (perhaps a dozen) and said the copy could not be done, but it didn't quit and finished eventually.
After re-install, the Tivo had all of my programs and season passes, but there is some strange behavior now:
1. Whenever it starts, it says "Installing a new service update. This will take a few minutes."
2. There are no network features anymore (Music, Photos, etc) on main screen
3. On Phone/Network settings, the Last Status is always shown as "Pending Restart"
4. If I try to Change Network Setting or Test Network, I get message "unavailable until a scheduled software update occurs at 2am"
5. There are no programs scheduled to record in ToDo List. All of my season pass programs are shown but with "None Scheduled" and one of them is shown as being scheduled online and it was not.
6. In Season Pass under upcoming episodes, it said show was on a channel that is not available, yet the Channel List is correct for me (DirectTV)
Version 8.3-01-2-540
Capacity is shown correctly as being bigger at "up to 287 hours" now.
When I tried to run the Tivo Setup Procedure again, the unit re-booted and it was back to the same condition. I've connected to Tivo Service 3-4 times already (first time took maybe 40 minutes to load stuff) and it has no effect.
SO, what have I done wrong? Is there a way to fsck or fix the existing disk bad sectors (map to others) before the copy? Was the copy done incorrectly to save everything? While all my stuff is there, the operation is now incorrect. Do I need to do a dd_rescue instead? Does that work to increase capacity? Any suggestions appreciated....
Jake