Help! MFSTools not recognizing Tivo A Drive!

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Hi,

I am in the middle of the Hinsdale upgrade procedure (actually near the end) using MFStools 2. I am using the bootable CD. It is a Tivo Series 1.

I have been able to make a backup of the Tivo A drive and restore it to my new larger A drive. I have also tested my new A drive in the Tivo (and it worked). The next step was to copy all the content (recordings, etc.) over to the "new" A drive. However, when I put the new drive back into my PC and boot to the CD, linux will not find my original Tivo A drive (it does find my new larger drive and the cd-rom).

More Info: The Tivo drive is identified by my PC Bios and does work if I put it back in the Tivo unit. Linux is just not recognizing it (it originally saw it as my "hdc").

Has anyone seen this before? Is there a way to get the linux system to recognize the original Tivo A drive?

Thanks for any help!!

Don Morrison

 

Well - I don't know if this will help anyone or not. It certainly confuses me. This is probably an issue with my PC...maybe.

I swapped the position of the existing Tivo A Drive and the larger (new) Tivo A drive in my computer (existing as Primary Master and new as Secondary Master) and everything worked. For whatever reason - the MFStools boot would not recognize the existing A drive in the secondary master no matter what I did.

I used the command to copy all the content and everything worked. 127 hour capacity.

Don

did the "full" copy with content, etc.