mcbrowne
03-22-2008, 04:29 PM
Hello,
I have a Sony Series I TiVo which a few years ago I upgraded to 120GB. That drive seemed to be dying, so I decided to replace it with a 500GB Western Digital drive. At first, everything seemed OK, but now I'm seeing a lot of skipping... not a little stutter, but jump ahead 30 minutes or more. (Or sometimes back as well...)
Exactly what I did: I used the LBA48 support CD from http://www.dvrupgrade.com/dvr/stores/1/lba48_support.cfm. My old TiVo drive was /dev/hda, and my new TiVo drive was /dev/hdd. I started by making a backup:
mfsbackup -f 999 -1so /mnt/backup.bak /dev/hda
Then, I copied everything to the new drive, leaving room for 300MB swap. (I know, mfstools has a problem with this. I'm counting on other tools fixing it later.)
mfsbackup -Tao - /dev/hda | mfsrestore -s 300 -r 4 -xzpi - /dev/hdd
Then, I ran "copykern" to install the 3.0 standalone kernel with LBA48 support. Being slightly paranoid, I wanted to make sure my swap partition was turned on, so I also ran:
tpip -s /dev/hdd
Nothing complained about anything... I installed the drive back into the TiVo, and it's been problems ever since. Have I done something obviously wrong here? Or any idea how to fix things?
Thanks...
--Mike
I have a Sony Series I TiVo which a few years ago I upgraded to 120GB. That drive seemed to be dying, so I decided to replace it with a 500GB Western Digital drive. At first, everything seemed OK, but now I'm seeing a lot of skipping... not a little stutter, but jump ahead 30 minutes or more. (Or sometimes back as well...)
Exactly what I did: I used the LBA48 support CD from http://www.dvrupgrade.com/dvr/stores/1/lba48_support.cfm. My old TiVo drive was /dev/hda, and my new TiVo drive was /dev/hdd. I started by making a backup:
mfsbackup -f 999 -1so /mnt/backup.bak /dev/hda
Then, I copied everything to the new drive, leaving room for 300MB swap. (I know, mfstools has a problem with this. I'm counting on other tools fixing it later.)
mfsbackup -Tao - /dev/hda | mfsrestore -s 300 -r 4 -xzpi - /dev/hdd
Then, I ran "copykern" to install the 3.0 standalone kernel with LBA48 support. Being slightly paranoid, I wanted to make sure my swap partition was turned on, so I also ran:
tpip -s /dev/hdd
Nothing complained about anything... I installed the drive back into the TiVo, and it's been problems ever since. Have I done something obviously wrong here? Or any idea how to fix things?
Thanks...
--Mike