MFS 2.0 Upgrade problem

[HUGE]

I just upgraded my dual drive T60's A drive from a 40 GB to a 120 GB. I followed the instructions from Hinsdales guide and the copy went fine. I used the dd command, and the number of records in and out matched. I then typed the "mfsadd -x ..." command. It told me there was nothing to add. I checked it twice to make sure I did it correclty. The drive were connected correcty too. I hooked it all back up and it works fine, but it is still only reporting the size as if the A drive is a 40 GB and not a 120 GB. What can I do to get its full size?

Thanks

HUGE

[poppagene]

I had a similar problem with a 25extremed 40 upgrading to 80, but my error message said that expanding the new "A" drive would result in too many partitions -- so I had to start over from scratch and give up on my recordings.

[HUGE]

That would suck. I am hoping for another solution.


HUGE

[BubbleLamp]

Originally posted by HUGE
I just upgraded my dual drive T60's A drive from a 40 GB to a 120 GB. I followed the instructions from Hinsdales guide and the copy went fine. I used the dd command, and the number of records in and out matched. I then typed the "mfsadd -x ..." command. It told me there was nothing to add. I checked it twice to make sure I did it correclty. The drive were connected correcty too. I hooked it all back up and it works fine, but it is still only reporting the size as if the A drive is a 40 GB and not a 120 GB. What can I do to get its full size?

Thanks

HUGE

If all you did was dd the 40GB to the 120GB drive, then you won't be able to expand it because it's already married to the B drive. You will have to create a new mfstools backup first (with both drives connected), to get an unmarried image, then restore it to the new pair of drives.

[poppagene]

see how to here: http://www.newreleasesvideo.com/hinsdale-how-to/index9.html

-- hinsdale doesn't agree bubbles

don't get me wrong -- hindales method didn't work for me!!

[BubbleLamp]

Well I just read that How-to no less than 5 times, and I'm completely confused by it. I don't remember it being that convoluted before.

I have not had the need to use the new mfstools, but if I followed his doc correctly, it looks like you'd use upgrade configuration 4 to do what you want.

[HUGE]

Hmm,


Someone on another board suggested dTivomad. Anyone ever heard of it?



HUGE

[BubbleLamp]

If you are using the Xtreme CD, it's on there already.

[HUGE]

I tried Hinsdales method, it did not work. I tried dTivoMad, it did not work either. so now I think I might just re- Xtreme. When I do this, it will recognize both drives as 120's right? It has been a while since I preformed the orginal xtreme update.

HUGE

[poppagene]

yes. follow the prompts and you should end up with a dtivo with about 226 hours of recording time.

[bato]

Originally posted by HUGE
I just upgraded my dual drive T60's A drive from a 40 GB to a 120 GB. I followed the instructions from Hinsdales guide and the copy went fine. I used the dd command, and the number of records in and out matched. I then typed the "mfsadd -x ..." command. It told me there was nothing to add. I checked it twice to make sure I did it correclty. The drive were connected correcty too. I hooked it all back up and it works fine, but it is still only reporting the size as if the A drive is a 40 GB and not a 120 GB. What can I do to get its full size?

Thanks

HUGE

You did UPGRADE CONFIGURATION #4: From: Any Dual Drive TiVo To: New A or New B Drive (replacing only one or the other)?

I'm reading the mfstools.doc that is in the mfstools2.iso, if you want to preserve your recordings you need to perform (at least try) you need to do the following:
- Fat32 partition in primary master
- Tivo A in secondary master
- Tivo B in primary slave (check jumper)
- bootCD mfstools2.iso in secondary slave
- mfsbackup –6so /mnt/dos/tivo.bak /dev/hdc /dev/hdb
- connect new A drive at /dev/hda (removing FAT32 drive)
- dd if=/dev/hdc of=/dev/hda bs=1024k (hdc old A drive 40g, hda new A drive 120g)
- mfsadd -x /dev/hda /dev/hdb

Basicaly they are the same, the only thing is Hinsdale put the old A drive in hda and new drive at hdc and mfstools.doc is old A at hdc and new drive at hda.

[HUGE]

YUp, that is exactly what I did, and it worked fine, except the final line did nothing : mfsadd -x /dev/hda /dev/hdb .

It said nothing to add. So, it still works it just will not expand teh A drive. Not sure why. I even ran DTivomad, and it said the expansion worked, but my dTvio dissagrees. So unless anyone has any last minute advice, I am goint to re-Xtreme today. I have been backing up my recording on VHS.



HUGE

[bato]

The new mfstools have a mfsinfo command that show your partitions, space used for the partition and the # of upgrades available for your drive, you can run that to see if say 0 upgrades available.

Instead of rextreme, if I were you, I'll backup my dual drive (as per instructions), then restore, test and execute mfsadd following those steps you will lose all recordings but keep all season passes, favorites and don't remember what else. Maybe even faster than rextreme process.

[poppagene]

Originally posted by bato


You did UPGRADE CONFIGURATION #4: From: Any Dual Drive TiVo To: New A or New B Drive (replacing only one or the other)?

I'm reading the mfstools.doc that is in the mfstools2.iso, if you want to preserve your recordings you need to perform (at least try) you need to do the following:
- Fat32 partition in primary master
- Tivo A in secondary master
- Tivo B in primary slave (check jumper)
- bootCD mfstools2.iso in secondary slave
- mfsbackup –6so /mnt/dos/tivo.bak /dev/hdc /dev/hdb
- connect new A drive at /dev/hda (removing FAT32 drive)
- dd if=/dev/hdc of=/dev/hda bs=1024k (hdc old A drive 40g, hda new A drive 120g)
- mfsadd -x /dev/hda /dev/hdb

Basicaly they are the same, the only thing is Hinsdale put the old A drive in hda and new drive at hdc and mfstools.doc is old A at hdc and new drive at hda.

Following steps for Upgrade Configuration #4, the dd command completely overwrites the target drive so that one can go to this step immediately without bothering with mfsbackup. The mfsbackup is only used to restore to an empty drive, for some one who is not keeping recordings.

[bato]

Originally posted by poppagene


Following steps for Upgrade Configuration #4, the dd command completely overwrites the target drive so that one can go to this step immediately without bothering with mfsbackup. The mfsbackup is only used to restore to an empty drive, for some one who is not keeping recordings.

That's right, I just put the backup because I think is a good practice to have a current backup, and because the drives are already in the PC...

[poppagene]

mfsadd works better for upgrading the "b" drive on an extremed dtivo than upgrading the "a"drive. I got an 80 gig Maxtor 5400 at Office Depot today for $50 plus tax on $100 after using a $20 coupon and assuming I get the $50 in rebates from maxtor and office depot. Even cheaper than the equivalent drive I got from staples last month. (only in store --not available at officedepot.com) I copied my b drive using the dd command, married and expanded it using the mfsadd and I had no problems at all.