newbie with dsr 6000

[leon phelps]

Hello,

Have a DSR 6000 on the way. Use a DTV HU card.

I would like to upgrade the size of the hard drive. I have downloaded the following files and am unsure what to do next...

dsr6000_25extreme
kraven1,2,3,4.zip
winima6.0.zip
xupgrade.zip


I have installed wace.exe already.

I would also like to know the largest HDD I coulod install in this. I can get 120 GB's inexpensively. I can get 200's for more money. I am unsure the best route to take with this.

Any help is greatly appreciated. I do have a CD-R to make a bootable CD.


Thanks.

[groundhog]

From Hinsdale's How To: ATA and TiVo kernel confinements limit using at most 137GB (128GiB) of any drives installed in your TiVo. Larger drives may function but you are currently limited to a maximum of 2 drives x 137GB (128GiB) or 274GB (256GiB) of usable space.

I would say that the 120 gigs are the best bet.

[leon phelps]

I have two 120 gb drives and am wondering what to do next. I have several software programs and was wondering what software is used for what.

Thanks as always

[groundhog]

Do a lot of reading in the how-to thread in the Direct TV Tivo forum.

In a nutshell, the most significant upgrades are 25 xtreme & the (2.5) xtreme upgrade.

Extreme will give you version 2.5 and allow you to set up the two hard drives. If you have a problem plugging the thing into a phone line(ya know, it's too far away, or you have a mobile home-or something), then use the xtreme ugrade next. That will touch the fixup file and give you a few extra's. (xplusz will do something similar to this---sets up additional hacks).

You can also check out Hinsdale's guide for additional info for how to hook up drives to your PC, etc. Most of what Hinsdales guide tells you is automatically done in 2.5 xtreme, but I think that the 2.5 xtreme readme assumes that you've added drive to a tivo before. Hinsdales guide is good for a beginner(if that's what you are).

BE CAREFULL NOT TO UPGRADE TO 3.1, unless you fully intend to.
There's a post by SuperZap in the Direct Tivo forum that has a file that will allow an upgrade to either 2.5.2 or 3.1. I would assume that you want to upgrade to 2.5.1, for now. 3.1 is more complicated, and may not be worth the headache/risk, at this point.

[leon phelps]

Hello,

I have 25XTREME.ISO burned on a CD. Am I correct that I now need to disconnect my other hard drives and hook up the drives I intend to use in the DirecTIVO unit.

After this, I need to enable boot from CD in the BIOS, then try to boot from the CD.....


How am I doing?


Thanks as always.

[groundhog]

Sounds about right. Just make sure that you burned the CD the right way. It needs to be burned as a bootable CD. Also, make sure that the drives are jumpered correctly, and pay close attention to what is HDA, HDB, HDC & HDD.

[leon phelps]

I think I havent burned the CD correctly. I am using win xp and roxio platinum. What is the correct way to burn cd so it will boot?


Thanks

[groundhog]

Try this thread: http://dealdatabase.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=20561&highlight=burn+and+xtreme

If it doens't help, do a search for 'xtreme and burn'. That's how i found this.

[homeytc]

I've got the same version of EZ CD Creator as you do and I was unable to get a good burn, always came up with a error during the installation. After reading some other posts I downloaded Nero Burning ROM and installed it. I stated the software and exited out of the wirard screens, after you get past them choose file then, burn image, choose the image that you want to burn and then choose open. Next you will get another box open write cd, chage write speed to 4X and choose disk at once, then choose write. That is what I did to get a good disk made to install 25xtreme.

[groundhog]

By the way I may have used the wrong choice of words above. I said that it needs to be burned as a bootable CD. Someone in another forum mentioned something about "Don't burn it as a bootable CD, burn it as a "CD image". The point is, you eventually need a bootable CD, but I don't recall the steps to get there. An option of creating a "Bootable CD" in Nero, might not work? I think "Create CD from CD image" for the .iso file - does work.

[leon phelps]

Hey,

Have burned the DSR6000_25Extreme file several different ways. Have the 2 120 gig drives on the secondary port(1 master and 1 slave).

With the ISO file I get disk boot failure.

When I burn file as bootable disk with no emulation, and with hard drive emulation, I get following message

1.HD System Type-(00)
Disk Boot Failure


I will try to burn another one of the ISO files again and see what happens.

I just read the last post.

Thanks for helping so far guys.

[fixn278]

Originally posted by leon phelps
Hey,

Have burned the DSR6000_25Extreme file several different ways. Have the 2 120 gig drives on the secondary port(1 master and 1 slave).

With the ISO file I get disk boot failure.

When I burn file as bootable disk with no emulation, and with hard drive emulation, I get following message

1.HD System Type-(00)
Disk Boot Failure


I will try to burn another one of the ISO files again and see what happens.

I just read the last post.

Thanks for helping so far guys.

In Roxio, select File and then Record CD from CD Image.

[leon phelps]

Guys,

Thanks so far for the help. I have successfully burned a boot cd.

Now the next trouble.

At the boot:, I press enter. Then I get the TBD login:, I press enter.

I get

mount: block device /dev/hdb is write protected, mounting read-only
mount: no medium found

I then type '25xtreme' and get

sh: 25xtreme: command not found

Any further suggestions? I am making progress I think.

Thanks as always.

[leon phelps]

Burned the iso with nero. I get the same message....


my hard drives show up as hdc and hdd.

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance.

[Pro-289]

Are you trying to use 2 TiVo drives? If so, then put your TiVo A drive on the Secondary IDE as Master. Then put your TiVo B drive on the Primary IDE as Slave. And put your CD-Rom drive on the Secondary IDE as Slave. And if you are messing with any DOS FAT32 Windows drives for backing up or what not, then put that on the Primary IDE as Master.

So, if you're doing all the above, connect your drives as:

(hda) Primary Master = Windows 98 FAT32 drive (optional)
(hdb) Primary Slave = TiVo B drive (optional)
(hdc) Secondary Master = TiVo A drive
(hdd) Secondary Slave = CD-Rom drive (optional, if booting from CD)

Correct me if I'm wrong guys. I'm a newbie too. ;)

[leon phelps]

two hard drive are brand new. No data on them.
I remove my SCSI hard drive that has Win on it.

The directions tell you to keep the drives away from being primary master, if I remember correctly.

[leon phelps]

Hey,

Finally the 25xtreme program was allowed to run on my PC. Not sure how, but beggars are not allowed to choose.

I have another problem now. I started with one drive. Ran program and got restore failed at 93% process aborted.


I guess I will read on and hopefully find some answers.

Thanks for everyones help so far.

[beaviskob1]

93% error is a known bug try installing hdd in tivo .
I had too load 2.52 image tho. Search my handle to read instructions on how to install 252 image.good luck have fun: )

[echo]

Hello, I am getting the same error here when installing Xtreme25. Mine stopped at 99% then say cannot continue…processing aborted. I remove the 40G Quantum drive after shutting down the pc then install it into my Hughes dtivo anyway and now it says Updating database This will take a long time. I have been waiting for 4 hours now. How long does the database updating suppose to take, I thought it only take 3-5 minutes. Any suggestion.

[leon phelps]

Hello,

I am using a PIII800, 256K PC 133, Sony CD-Rom.

I understand that the error is common, but how would I do two drives to install in the same machine? I would prefer to put two new 120 gb hard drives in and save the 40gb one that came out for any possible emergency.

Since I get the error when doing the first drive, how would I do the second drive?

Thanks in advance.

[BubbleLamp]

Originally posted by leon phelps
Hello,

I am using a PIII800, 256K PC 133, Sony CD-Rom.

I understand that the error is common, but how would I do two drives to install in the same machine? I would prefer to put two new 120 gb hard drives in and save the 40gb one that came out for any possible emergency.

Since I get the error when doing the first drive, how would I do the second drive?

Thanks in advance.

You can manually run the next step like this:

cd /maddtb4
./setup.sh

[baudrate]

actually the manual setup run command is this

cd /maddtb4
./setupcd.sh

however i got an error at line 246: 243 Broken pipe cat /maddtb4/mfsadd.gz

"244 gzip -dc
245 Terminated dd of=/mnt/tivo/tvbin/mfsadd obs=32k
error: Copy of mfsadd failed.
error: The exit code was 143
error: Cannot Contiue "

This error or any similar to it is a Ram related error I came to find out. After i replaced the ram with a known good chip the installation went nice and smooth.

like the rest of you i love to have sum fun messing around with extra options but this is starting to make me irritated at times.But life is always not easy and there are ways to reduce stress however it can get expensive


p.s. I have also downloaded 25xtreme from 2 different places.
burned cd's at different speeds, used different cd-r's, not to mention building a slower testing pc at 400mhz cpu, 64mg of ram is the latest. Before that i was using a p3 933mhz with 256 mg of ram, no matter what i end up with the 99% failure decompression error with setup aborted cannot continue. almost forgot also using a dsr6000 with 2 tivo drives original 30 and 15 quantums.

Any info would reduce my stress level here very much.

thanx alot to all who posted in this forum after extensive reading all info u need i sright here just takes a little reading.
baudrate:)

[bobby284]

anybody know an answer to the above problem?the manual setup run command is this

cd /maddtb4
./setupcd.sh

however i got an error at line 246: 243 Broken pipe cat /maddtb4/mfsadd.gz

"244 gzip -dc
245 Terminated dd of=/mnt/tivo/tvbin/mfsadd obs=32k
error: Copy of mfsadd failed.
error: The exit code was 143
error: Cannot Contiue "

This error or any similar to it is a Ram related error I came to find out. After i replaced the ram with a known good chip the installation went nice and smooth.

like the rest of you i love to have sum fun messing around with extra options but this is starting to make me irritated at times.But life is always not easy and there are ways to reduce stress however it can get expensive


p.s. I have also downloaded 25xtreme from 2 different places.
burned cd's at different speeds, used different cd-r's, not to mention building a slower testing pc at 400mhz cpu, 64mg of ram is the latest. Before that i was using a p3 933mhz with 256 mg of ram, no matter what i end up with the 99% failure decompression error with setup aborted cannot continue. almost forgot also using a dsr6000 with 2 tivo drives original 30 and 15 quantums.

Any info would reduce my stress level here very much.

thanx alot to all who posted in this forum after extensive reading all info u need i sright here just takes a little reading.
baudrate

[GREEK]

what computer are you usint (speed and make) and how much ram. The previous poster said his was a RAM problem, he only had 64 megs.

[bobby284]

ill give it a try thanks