I am attempting to upgrade my Phillips PTV-300.. I installed two new Seagate 120Gig IDE Drives, and it starts fine, but then just "hangs-up/Locks-up". The video freezes and the Remote Control fails to do anything. This unit originally had a 60Gig upgrade from TiVo, but I just can't seem to get it to transfer correctly to the two new HD's. I used WinMFS and the older MFS version 3?.
Does anyone have an idea? I have an old InstantCake {2002} for my Sony SVR-2000 - will that work. Do I need/can some one send me an image just for the PTV-300? Or is shelling out another $40 for another InstantCake my only option?
Thanks for any assistance anyone can provide
Give up and use those two drives in a computer instead.
Series 1s are picky about which drives they'll work with.
Apparently they don't like Western Digital Caviar Blues, even SATA ones with the Marvell chipset SATA/IDE adapters that are otherwise the only ones that work in a Series 1.
And apparently they don't like matched pairs of Seagates, either.
I tried the same thing with 2 of the same model 160GB Seagate drives (IDE/PATA). And yes, I ran copykern so that I could use drives larger than 137GB.
Wouldn't work.
I could use either one of the Seagates by itself, it worked fine.
I could use either one of the Seagates as either the master or slave and a different brand drive as the other drive and it worked fine.
Together, there was something about them together that the ultra-picky Series 1s just don't like.
You can get a 1TB drive for $50 now, and the necessary SATA/IDE adapter for under $30, maybe well under if you look hard enough.
Go read the adapter thread
http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?t=416883
Go here
http://www.dvrupgrade.com/dvr/stores/1/downloads/BOOTCD/ptvlba48-4.04.iso.zip
to get the image for a cd you can burn and use to run copykern.
If that link doesn't work anymore, go here
http://www.dvrupgrade.com/dvr/stores/1/lba48_4.04_license.cfm
Don't use it for backing up and restoring images, just for copykern.
First you restore the image to the new drive with some other software, then you boot with that cd, then you mount that cd
mount -t iso9660 /dev/"whatever hdx or sdx you booted the PTV cd in" /cdrom
(I guess that's so the OS that loaded off of the cd can find something on the cd, like maybe copykern itself, or some part of it.)
Then you type copykern and follow the instructions.
Then you boot with the MFS Live v1.4 cd and run mfsadd to use the full drive.
For backing up and restoring, go to mfslive.org and download the image for the MFS Live v1.4 cd, and use it instead of any older MFS handling software.
WinMFS only works with backup images made with WinMFS, and nothing else works with those images, but MFS Live will work with backup images made by earlier versions and by MFS Tools.
When you use the
restore
command on the MFS Live cd, just use the -s option to set the swap partition size, and instead of
-xzpi
just use -i
Do not use -p on a Series 1. It puts a Series 2 and later partition layout on the hard drive that confuses an S1.
-x will be handled later by mfsadd
If I recall correctly from experiments I tried a while back, using the Sony image in the Philips (or maybe it was the other way around) would work to begin with, but it only responded to the remote it expected, so either I had to use the Sony remote with the Philips TiVo or the Philips remote with the Sony TiVo.
Others here and elsewhere have said that using the "other" brand's S1 image will eventually cause it to bork itself when it gets info or updates from the mothership and becomes hopelessly confused and schizo.