Argh ... did I screw up my hard drive replacement?

My Tivo is an antique series 1, originally 30GB which I upgraded a long
time ago to a single-drive 80GB. A few weeks ago it started exhibiting
classic symptoms of hard drive failure - stuttering video, lockups, and
a pronounced "I'm dying!" whine. I pulled it out of service, let
SpinRite do its magic on the drive, and used the latest MFSTOOLS to
image the entire thing (recordings and all) to a new drive I had lying
around. It worked beautifully - no lost data at all, although the old
drive did grind to a screeching and dramatic halt about a day later.

But now I'm a little worried ... the new drive was a 200GB model. But
the series 1 runs a Linux kernel that can only see ~140GB of it ...
apparently a known limitation from what I've read. My worry is: can
the Linux kernel deal happily with the ~140GB it can see, or am I at
risk of data corruption because it doesn't know how to handle a drive of
that size & geometry?

-- Chris
________*________ Chris Barnabo,
____________ \_______________/ http://www.spagnet.com
\__________/ / /
__\ \_______/ /__ "The heck with the Prime Directive,
\_______________/(- let's destroy something!"

It ignores the rest, no problem.

"Chris Barnabo" wrote in message
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My Tivo is an antique series 1, originally 30GB which I upgraded a long
time ago to a single-drive 80GB. A few weeks ago it started exhibiting
classic symptoms of hard drive failure - stuttering video, lockups, and
a pronounced "I'm dying!" whine. I pulled it out of service, let
SpinRite do its magic on the drive, and used the latest MFSTOOLS to
image the entire thing (recordings and all) to a new drive I had lying
around. It worked beautifully - no lost data at all, although the old
drive did grind to a screeching and dramatic halt about a day later.

But now I'm a little worried ... the new drive was a 200GB model. But
the series 1 runs a Linux kernel that can only see ~140GB of it ...
apparently a known limitation from what I've read. My worry is: can
the Linux kernel deal happily with the ~140GB it can see, or am I at
risk of data corruption because it doesn't know how to handle a drive of
that size & geometry?

-- Chris
________*________ Chris Barnabo,
____________ \_______________/ http://www.spagnet.com
\__________/ / /
__\ \_______/ /__ "The heck with the Prime Directive,
\_______________/(- let's destroy something!"

"Gary" shaped the electrons to say:
It ignores the rest, no problem.

Sure, but there are kernel hacks to make it see 137GB. An option
would be to get an Instant Cake CD from DVRupgrade.com and re-image
the drive. You'd lose recordings and settings you have today, but
you'd start fresh and be able to use the full drive. On top of that,
the Instant Cake CD for the S1 installs all the network hacks -
TiVoWeb Plus, etc - to give the S1 new capabilities. You'd also want
a TurboNet Card or CacheCard, if you don't have on already.

-MZ
--
URL:mailto:megazoneatmegazone.org Gweep, Discordian, Author, Engineer, me.
"A little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men" 508-852-2171
URL:http://www.megazone.org/ URL:http://www.eyrie-productions.com/ Eris

Are you sure Instant Cake comes with TiVoWeb Plus and other hack type stuff?
Were does it say what it comes with like add ones? I looked at there web
page and could not find were it said they have TiVoWeb Plus and others
install on instant Cake. Or do you have to order one with that?

-Raymond Day

"Raymond Day" shaped the electrons to say:
Are you sure Instant Cake comes with TiVoWeb Plus and other hack type stuff?
Were does it say what it comes with like add ones? I looked at there web
page and could not find were it said they have TiVoWeb Plus and others
install on instant Cake. Or do you have to order one with that?

http://www.dvrupgrade.com/dvr/stores...del&ModelID=22

Note the statement about NetReady.

http://www.dvrupgrade.com/dvr/stores/1/netready.cfm

So there is a fairly simple step to actually get TiVoWeb onto the TiVo
with the new drive, it isn't really installed for you by the CD, but
the drive is prepped to make it simple.

-MZ
--
URL:mailto:megazoneatmegazone.org Gweep, Discordian, Author, Engineer, me.
"A little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men" 508-852-2171
URL:http://www.megazone.org/ URL:http://www.eyrie-productions.com/ Eris

On 27 Dec 2006, wrote:

Are you sure Instant Cake comes with TiVoWeb Plus and other hack type stuff?
Were does it say what it comes with like add ones? I looked at there web
page and could not find were it said they have TiVoWeb Plus and others
install on instant Cake. Or do you have to order one with that?

You have to get PTVnet, which is a separate product, for all the
hacks. InstantCake is just the OS image. In addition, to upgrade
from 3.x to 6.x (the latest OS, I forget the version numbers) on the
DirecTivo HR10-250, you need the slicer utility. $60 altogether ($20
each). IMHO it was money well spent, but YMMV and certainly you can
try to do it yourself. I have the skills, but not the time to do it
myself from scratch with all the freely available hacks

Ted