Cannot get Hoch onto new samsung drive

[adamfoulkes]

Hello,
Please help if you can.
I have bought hooch, the adapter and a Samsung 1 Tb SATA drive.
I have hooked it up to my PC via the adapter andhave used the kernal cd program.
The samsung hard drive shows up as hda on the list.
When I run the hooch software, the option of using hda is not listed.
I have run i about 5 times now using hdb, hdc etc - still no luck.
Says the process has failed.
Getting really fed up now as I have tried it several times with a SATA to IDE converter that did not work.
This ancient technology is really peeing me off!
Can anyone help me to get hooch onto this drive?
Thanks in advance,
Adam

[blindlemon]

HI Adam.,

You need to connect the drive to the secondary IDE cable as described in the Hooch instructions. Then it will show up as /dev/hdc and can be configured by Hooch.

Cheers
Steve

[Ian_m]

....This ancient technology is really peeing me off!
This ancient technology of RTFM...wow..that ancient...:D

[healeydave]

hehe, I probably shouldn't find this funny that someone about 2 miles from tivoland.com went to a competitor :-)

[adamfoulkes]

I have connected the adapter to the secondary IDE port on the motherboard. I had to buy a spare IDE cable as I didn’t have one.
I then found that the CD rom drives did not work on booting up. So I swopped the IDE cables over on the MB so the cd rom was in the secondary ide port and the sata adaptor was in the cd rom slot.
This seems to allow the cd rom to work but the HDD is still showing as hd (a) on mfs tools and when I get to hooch I cannot load the drive with the software. What am I doing wrong?
If anyone have a spare few mins that you could guide me through this I would be very grateful. I would like to think I am not a novice but this seems to be battling me!

[healeydave]

I'm afraid I don't know anything about hooch, although the process of using the free mfstools cd is easy enough. I suspect hooch has the same tools on it, just packaged up differently.

The guide that people have used for 5+ years now never seems to fail, why not take a look:

http://www.newreleasesvideo.com/hinsdale-how-to/index9.html

[adamfoulkes]

That would be baffling me - not battling me! God the stress of it all!:(

[adamfoulkes]

Cheers for this Dave.
The trouble is that I am using a 1Tb SATA drive with a IDE coverter and this seems to be causing a prob. It is recognised in the MFS tools prog but just won't allow me to intall the info from the Hooch CD to the drive...

[healeydave]

I assume the hooch cd has mfstools on as well as a tivo image (wow, risky selling a cd & distributing copyrighted material :-)

So if you have the 1TB drive connected to the Secondary Master, you should be able to restore the tivo image to /dev/hdc

for example, if the mfstools and the tivo backup image are in the same directory, the command would look like:

./mfstools restore -s 600 -r4 -xzpi tivo_image_file_name.bak /dev/hdc

all you need to do is substitute the "tivo_image_file_name.bak" in the line above for the actual file name of the tivo image, including the path on the front if its not in the same directory as the mfstools utility.

[adamfoulkes]

I have done it now at last - Thanks for your help guys
Ad

[Ashley]

I assume the hooch cd has mfstools on as well as a tivo image (wow, risky selling a cd & distributing copyrighted material :-)



Any riskier than selling a hard disc with an image on it?;)

[healeydave]

Any riskier than selling a hard disc with an image on it?;)

Technically your probably right, people downloading the tools to backup and restore their own images has always been accepted, as has supplying a disk as a repair solution with the o/s replacing what they already had.
Distributing the Tivo O/S has always been frowned upon though, not quite sure about the difference, but its why no-one has every hosted the Tivo software publicly as a download and the forums don't allow it to be linked to.

Still, it doesn't seem that its rubbed anyone up the wrong way, unless Steve is someway down on TiVo's lawsuit list :-o

[blindlemon]

Hooch and MFSTools are supplied on separate CDs.

[adamfoulkes]

Working like a dream now.
Thanks all. Seems a bit faster too with my !Tb drive! Shame tivo doesen't tell you how much space you have left on it! :)