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pvignola
02-19-2004, 01:24 PM
I have a RedHat9 box with a 3Com905 NIC. I would like to be able to remove my drive from my tivo and connect it to my Red Hat PC to be able to access it. I will connect it as the secondary master on the IDE bus. Will I be able to use Red Hat telnet and ftp to access this drive after it is mounted? I have an existing LAN with a DHCP server on it. Can I install TyTools on the Red Hat box and extract from a windows PC on the same network?
Thanks
Sleeper
02-19-2004, 02:19 PM
I have a RedHat9 box with a 3Com905 NIC. I would like to be able to remove my drive from my tivo and connect it to my Red Hat PC to be able to access it.

Not in less you recompile the kernel with special modifications to support the tivo drive.

I will connect it as the secondary master on the IDE bus. Will I be able to use Red Hat telnet and ftp to access this drive after it is mounted?

Why would you telnet or ftp to a drive that is locally mounted? If you ment to say "From another machine" then the answer is yes but only the mounted partitions which are the root and /var
acr2001
02-19-2004, 02:20 PM
EDIT- what he said ^
Sorry I didnt see your post sleeper when I was makin this one.
pvignola
02-19-2004, 05:01 PM
Not in less you recompile the kernel with special modifications to support the tivo drive.



Why would you telnet or ftp to a drive that is locally mounted? If you ment to say "From another machine" then the answer is yes but only the mounted partitions which are the root and /var

Is there another way to be able to extract from a HDVR2? I don't see an edge connector for a 9thtee nic. How could I get video from my HDRV2?

Is there a how to somewhere that explains the mods need to the Red Hat kernel for the tivo drive to work?
malfunct
02-19-2004, 05:04 PM
Is there another way to be able to extract from a HDVR2? I don't see an edge connector for a 9thtee nic. How could I get video from my HDRV2?

Is there a how to somewhere that explains the mods need to the Red Hat kernel for the tivo drive to work?

You could always read the sticky threads in the Directivo Series 2 forum and they might explain how to hack the HDVR2 to have a network adapter and have services to allow video extraction.
Sleeper
02-19-2004, 05:06 PM
mfs_ftp will allow you to ftp the mfs streams over your network to a Windows pc where you can manipulate/burn them with other tools.

There is also a thread on this board about hwo to extract them directly from your tivo drive when it is installed in your PC.

Just search around a bit and do some reading.
malfunct
02-19-2004, 05:08 PM
mfs_ftp will allow you to ftp the mfs streams over your network to a Windows pc where you can manipulate/burn them with other tools.

There is also a thread on this board about hwo to extract them directly from your tivo drive when it is installed in your PC.

Just search around a bit and do some reading.

Could a mod move this to the newbie forum? Or at least to the directivo series 2 forum. Its sort of out of place in the series 1 dtivo forum.
erhan
02-19-2004, 09:48 PM
Not in less you recompile the kernel with special modifications to support the tivo drive.


Another (probably better, and certainly easier) option is to use the pdisk alldeadhomier posted a while back. It updates the in-memory partition table structure so you can mount the Tivo drive.
Sleeper
02-20-2004, 01:36 AM
Another (probably better, and certainly easier) option is to use the pdisk alldeadhomier posted a while back. It updates the in-memory partition table structure so you can mount the Tivo drive.

You are referring to his repartitioning tool.

That tool is not for beginners.

That tool is not going to allow mfstools to run unless you have a special kernel.
erhan
02-20-2004, 06:36 PM
Right, it's the repartitioning tool, but all you have to do is revalidate the partition table. I suggested it because his very first question was:
I have a RedHat9 box with a 3Com905 NIC. I would like to be able to remove my drive from my tivo and connect it to my Red Hat PC to be able to access it. I will connect it as the secondary master on the IDE bus...
In my mind, anyone who has a RedHat box and knows the NIC brand should be able to run pdisk without messing it up. But, then again, this is the newbie thread, so swim at your own risk