Just upgraded hard drive - checking if this is right...

[Newmattie]

Hi,

Sometime last year, I upgraded my 40Gb Tivo hard drive for a larger one:

http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?t=397283

Everything was working well, until we had the builders in and they were knocking down a wall downstairs, right underneath my Tivo. I didn't realise until it was too late, but the vibrations caused the hard drive to give up and stop working :(

I hadn't made a note of the max record times for the old (original 40Gb) drive (and I'm reluctant to put it back in, as I've shelved it - it's acting as my master backup).

When I did the backup using the command I wrote in the link above, I saw the following:

Source 39 Hours backup size: 31848 Mb

At the end, I saw that it said:
New standalone size: 130 hours (91 more).

I'm using a 120Gb hard drive and wondering if this sounds correct - because when I go into Tivo, system information, I see:

Recording capacity: 39 hrs, 53 min (Best Quality)
138 hrs, 45 min (Basic Quality)

Going into Preferences, I see:

Best Quality: 39hrs 53 min
High Quality: 64hrs 38 min
Medium Quality: 85hrs 37 min
Basic Quality: 138hrs 45 min

How does this compare with the standard 40Gb option - and does it sound right?

TivoWebPlus reports:

Space Summary
Total Space - 116036 MB 100.0% 104:07:23
Total Used 1 1056 MB 0.9% 0:24:46
Total Free - High - 114980 MB 99.1% 103:10:31
Deleted** 30 29163 MB 25.1% 26:08:23

I haven't used copykern, like I did last time. Do I need to?

Just making sure I've done everything right and that this sounds correct.

Cheers,
Matt

[mikerr]

Yes, you should run still copykern even though you may not need the LBA48 kernel with a drive < 137GB,
as copykern also initialises the swapfile if you have set a larger than normal one ( the -s 300 bit).

If you don't initiliase the swapfile, then everything will work, but a daily call will fail unless forced immedately after bootup.

Your recording figures look correct though.

A standard 40GB is around 13hrs best, 39 hours basic.

[Newmattie]

Ah, that was my next question about the daily call - I was stuck with the "failed expanding data" message. And now I've gone and reset it - damn!

Right, back to the drawing board and try again!

Thanks - I'll let you know how I get on.

Matt

[Newmattie]

Interesting - thanks for that...

I took the hard drive that had failed and chanced it... Ran the backup/restore (shorter version) - it took about 15 mins in total and everything went well. I ran copykern and then checked the cachecard settings, performed 3 daily calls and it's all working fine. Just can't get the Highlights module to work properly without giving errors, but I can handle that - I've removed it for now.

Thanks again for your help, mikerr.

Cheers,
Matt