TheDoctor
11-24-2002, 02:07 PM
I had recently purchased a openbox series 2, and found a couple of things interesting.
The unit had been purchased from GoodGuys and I was assured that the returned unit had been cheked out. They lied. The unit had a damaged fan housing that sounded like a fist full of poker chips being dropped into a food processor. Once I broke off the loose plastic it was fine, but I doubt any tech ever checked it.
The unit had been set up, but had no guide data left. It still had an account status of 'New'. I made a backup of the disk and then allow it connect to tivo to change the lineup. The service state was changed to 'expired' and all functionality was lost. However when I put the origional disk back in all functions returned to normal and the unit continue to operate in the 'New' state even though it is at or past the 30 day mark since initial activation. I will continue to monitor for a few days and see If I can conitue to use the system for manual recording.
The unit came with an 80gb drive, I initially just moved it to a slightly larger 80gb drive, as I was interested in enabling the bash prompt. However I found that I still did not have any free space. I checked in pdisk and it appearaed that the 80gb harddisk had an 85gb image. That could mean that when the drive is expanded that tivo automatically get a larger 'reserve' space for their use as they had stated in the past. In any event when I put the image on a 120gb drive everything worked fine and I was able to get bash enabled. There appears to be changes to tivoshell, mls and dumpobj have been removed, so I can't tell to much about what has changed in the database or how easy it would be to manually load/generate guide data at this time. I will update when I get time to explore further.
The unit had been purchased from GoodGuys and I was assured that the returned unit had been cheked out. They lied. The unit had a damaged fan housing that sounded like a fist full of poker chips being dropped into a food processor. Once I broke off the loose plastic it was fine, but I doubt any tech ever checked it.
The unit had been set up, but had no guide data left. It still had an account status of 'New'. I made a backup of the disk and then allow it connect to tivo to change the lineup. The service state was changed to 'expired' and all functionality was lost. However when I put the origional disk back in all functions returned to normal and the unit continue to operate in the 'New' state even though it is at or past the 30 day mark since initial activation. I will continue to monitor for a few days and see If I can conitue to use the system for manual recording.
The unit came with an 80gb drive, I initially just moved it to a slightly larger 80gb drive, as I was interested in enabling the bash prompt. However I found that I still did not have any free space. I checked in pdisk and it appearaed that the 80gb harddisk had an 85gb image. That could mean that when the drive is expanded that tivo automatically get a larger 'reserve' space for their use as they had stated in the past. In any event when I put the image on a 120gb drive everything worked fine and I was able to get bash enabled. There appears to be changes to tivoshell, mls and dumpobj have been removed, so I can't tell to much about what has changed in the database or how easy it would be to manually load/generate guide data at this time. I will update when I get time to explore further.