Very important: 6.3a Success with 2 Disk HR10-250?

I have an HR10-250 with a second hard drive inside it. (250 + 160)

6.3a installed with no problems (as of yet)

 

Works for me with 2x300GB in it.

 

You're right...I tried to change the title of that thread today, but I couldn't.

My HR10 that is/was acting up is a 2x300G upgraded unit. I have functionality that seems okay, but I'm concerned about the fact that the initial upgrade did not go without a hitch (continous reboot loop until physically unplugged), and that 12 hours after the upgrade, the unit was again rebooting until unplugged.

I'll report back tomorrow and see how things go.

I have one other HR10 with 2x500G (replaced 2x300G, I got confused in the earlier thread and thought that one was the one rebooting) that hasn't received the update yet, and I'm tempted to unplug the phone line until this fleshes out.

 

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I woke up this morning to see a message that my WEAKNEES expanded 300GIG system had a pending software upgrade pending restart. Not wanting to wait I reset my system properly and it NEVER recovered. It never gets past the welcome screen. After calling weaknees they said it would have to be reformatted and I would loose everything!!!! ANYBODY have any idea what to do to fix the problem??

 

I haven't heard of many 750s in HR10s, this guy: http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?p=4409797&&#post4409797 says he has one but was waiting for 6.3.

For what its worth, a 750 is working fine in my S3.

 

btwyx, you're correct... I upgraded one of my HR10 witha 750gb & still waiting.

Other HR10 is stock, still waiting on that one also. It was a replacement for one that would not boot after getting the upgrade first day out! Talk about getting the candy taken away!

I'll post when the 750gb gets the upgrade.

One note, I had left the swap at 127 during the upgrade, so I hope that does not cause any issue. We'll see..

 

jkast, did you add/change any fans after your upgrade.

I have not after replacing 250 with single 750. Case temp is around 46c. I'd like it to be cooler, figure that would be better for the components over the long term.

 

Mine has dual 320g hdd's. Loaded with PTV's instantcake cd. I did the 6.3a upgrade and everything is working great, didn't loose a single recording and it has yet to miss recording a show or have any problems.

That being said, for the first couple hours after the first reboot after the install the unit was SLOW. So if you manually initate an install of 6.3, I'd do it at night after your recordings for the day are gone. I tried my TIVO the next night and it's been great ever since. I did however loose the hacks the instant cake cd gave me.

 

If a drive fails during the upgrade it is merely a coincidence and it was probably on its way out already. Chances are there were some bad sectors on the alternate partition and when the upgrade swapped partitions it caused the drive to fail or go into an endless reboot loop. Having a dual drive setup will make absolutely no difference when it comes to the 6.3 upgrade. If it worked fine with 3.1.5f there is no reason it will still not continue to work under 6.3a. The OS merely sees the Tivo as having a couple of extra partitions and should be OK with that.

FYI - I have three dual drive HDTivos and they're all working fine with 6.3a. I have also upgraded several others with dual drives using 6.3a and they're working fine as well.

 

Thanks jkast. I think I'll order one.

 

Most of my Tivos have the Weaknees bracket and typically I see a 5C drop in temp after I installed it.