Upgraded Hard Drive and now two questions

[barney34]

I followed Hinsdale (http://www.newreleasesvideo.com/hinsdale-how-to/index9.html) guide by replacing the 40 gig OEM drive with a 160. Placed it in the tivo and I have picture, all my setting, everything is there, so it looks like a success so far.

BUT

When I go under setting I still see 32 hrs of record time, what am I missing and/ or how long does it take to update?

Second question has to do with satellite's not being found. First I have three DTV units and all including the tivo when you testing manually all transponders from all three degrees work at 90 to 100% all the time. But on the tivo when going through satellite setup I select all the correct setting like oval, three lnb, and two cables. It only discovers a signal on A and B/C say nothing, but the same unite when doing it manually it sees them all at 100%.

Thank you

[barney34]

PS I followed this guide when I upgraded the orginal 40 gig. dellanave (http://www.dellanave.com/projects/tivo/4xrid.html) which included the lba48 support

[barney34]

Ok I see what I did not do. Guess I should have looked longer

"Then issue the following command to expand/marry the existing A drive and the new upgrade B:



mfsadd –x /dev/hda /dev/hdc



This will only take a few seconds and will report the results and size of your drives. When complete you can press Ctrl-Alt-Del and wait for the 'No more processes ... ' message or the system starts to reboot, then power down. You are now ready to install your existing A drive and new larger B drive into your TiVo and can move on to Step 11.
"

[hayreass]

mfsadd –x /dev/hda /dev/hdcI thought you said you REPLACED the original 40 gig with a 160 gig....
If so, you are on the right track, but still not there.

There will be no marrying of two drives.

You will need to expand the image on the 160 gig to fill it, but that command expands to fill 2 drives.

I'm not certain what happens if you try it with ony one drive connected.

[Iago]

Second question has to do with satellite's not being found. First I have three DTV units and all including the tivo when you testing manually all transponders from all three degrees work at 90 to 100% all the time. But on the tivo when going through satellite setup I select all the correct setting like oval, three lnb, and two cables. It only discovers a signal on A and B/C say nothing, but the same unite when doing it manually it sees them all at 100%.

Thank you

Please describe your Multiswitch set-up.

[barney34]

1) Triple LNB with the built in multiswitch and oval dish
a) Two feed coming into purchased multiswitch

2) Multiswitch Aspen Eagle S-2180-CE (http://www.starlink-dss.com/multiswitch.htm) w/ added 20V power supply

3) 8 feeds leaving the Aspen Eagle 2 of which go to the Tivo and 2 to regular receivers. The other 4 go to rooms where there is currently nothing.


Here is my issue.

After a reboot or when I do dish set up it ask a series of question to which I answer oval, triple LNB, and two feeds. During the transponder test I get ALL degrees 101, 110, and 119 on all transponders even the spot beam one that are weaker like 20 to 40%, but pretty much the 101, 110, and 119 is all 90 and above. This is replicated on all the other DTV units as well. All transponders on all degrees. BUT when I hit next for it to discover the multiswitch and the degrees it can see it only find 101 on both receivers on the tivo. This really should not bother me because I don’t have any channel on 110 or 119, but I can’t stand it when things don’t work.

I have purchased the 20V power for the Aspen Eagle ---- Same result

I have purchased a new Aspen Eagle ---- Same result

I have by passed the Aspen Eagle and both receivers on the tivo discover all three degrees during the auto discovery process just fine. So I have eliminated the cable length (75 ft) with the 20V power supply, eliminated the receiver built into the Tivo, eliminated the dish LNB, replaced the Aspen Eagle, ect ect ect. What else is left to do? Could it be the dish LNB, but if I go direct it works like a champ. Could the Aspen Eagle be bad for a second time, but all the channels work, however I do get a lot of locked and not locked errors in the /var/log/kernel. Could it be a bad cable or something giving feed back into the Aspen Edge from one of the other 4 rooms that don’t have a DTV unit and I need to cap them off with terminators?


HELP!!!!!

[paul91]

you have the wrong multiswitch
if you have a oval dish you have to have a 4x8 multiswitch....anything like a 3x8 is for round dish only...if using a multiswitch then however many cables come from the lnb assembly you have to use them all..ie 4 ports on lnb assy then use all 4 to multiswitch..if you had a round dish with 2 ports then you would run both of those to the multiswitch...you only need a multiswitch with a oval dish if you need more than 4 cable outputs
here (http://www.starlink-dss.com/dtv4x8_wiring.htm) is a diagram on how is should be wired

[barney34]

but why does all the degrees show up with all the transponders when I do this a test manually. I see what your saying thoe.

[captain_video]

but why does all the degrees show up with all the transponders when I do this a test manually.
You'll need to explain by what you mean when you say you do the test manually. If you mean that you connect the cables from the dish to the receiver then you will definitely see all three satellites and available transponders. The multiswitch setup you're using won't pass the signals from SAT B and SAT C, which is why you're only seeing SAT A.

In order to be able to see all three satellites from an oval dish you'll need a cascadeable multiswitch that is capable of passing the 22kHz tone along with the dc voltages that are used to select the various satellite LNBs and transponder polarities. This requires that you use all four outputs from the built-in multiswitch on the oval dish. Your multiswitch cannot provide the 22KHz tone that is neeeded to select SAT B or SAT C.

[barney34]

So if I dont need 110 and 119 then I should just select oval with dual LNB or round with dual LNB in the setup.

I actually have oval with three LNB but not the cascadable multiswitch and only two feeds from the dish.

Thank you again this is awsome

[PlainBill]

I would GUESS that the reason you are seeing different results is the 3 x 8 multiswitch does not pass the 22khz tone, as a result the multiswitch integrated into the dish always stays locked on the 101 satellite. When you are checking for signal, the receiver only determines if there is a signal present. Later it actually checks the contents of the stream, looking for the (transponder ID?). since it can never see the IDs for the transponders on the satellites at 110 and 119, it gives you an error.

PlainBill