converting from dual drives to one large drive

[nitrous]

Hey folks,
Anyone have experience taking a dual system (40gig and 80gig) and transfering it (intact) to a 160gig single Maxtor drive.
Tnx
n|trous

[BubbleLamp]

Originally posted by nitrous
Hey folks,
Anyone have experience taking a dual system (40gig and 80gig) and transfering it (intact) to a 160gig single Maxtor drive.
Tnx
n|trous

You can do it with mfstools 2.0. It's in the Hinsdale How-to. You basically create a divorced backup image that is then piped to restore, so there is no intermediate saving of the file. Requires all 4 IDE connections, 3 for the Tivo drives, and 1 for the boot CD.

[nitrous]

Thanks BubbleLamp.
n|trous

[nitrous]

BubbleLamp:

A quick question:

Is there any problem using a 160gig 8mb buffer Maxtor 7200 drive with DirectTivo?

tnx
n|trous

[BubbleLamp]

Originally posted by nitrous
BubbleLamp:

A quick question:

Is there any problem using a 160gig 8mb buffer Maxtor 7200 drive with DirectTivo?

tnx
n|trous

As long as it doesn't bug you that all 160GB isn't used it's fine. You'll be able to use 137GB, that's all.

[nitrous]

Does that mean the to go beyond 137gig, you have to use two drives? I thought that you could specify larger than that....
n|trous

[BubbleLamp]

Originally posted by nitrous
Does that mean the to go beyond 137gig, you have to use two drives? I thought that you could specify larger than that....
n|trous

It's a limitation of the IDE driver. Yes, to go beyond 137GB you need 2 drives.