DRT400 upgrade blues, or greens :(

[TiVo_jimbo]

My DVD player died and this was the excuse I needed to buy a HUMAX DVD recorder. I decided on the new DRT400, 40 hour model because hey, who owns a TiVo that's not upgraded anyway?

I bought 2 ~ Seagate 400 GB hard drives. (They WILL fit. Not pretty but just a little hacking, old school style. Pictures to follow.)

I've tried all of the LBA 48 boot discs that I can find:

ptv-mfstools2-large-disk.iso <---tried this first
ptvlba48-4.01.iso <---tried this second
weaknees_lba_boot_cd.iso <--- tried this third (this is the fastest)

Drives are configured as such:

Primary Master: New A drive. 400 GB
Primary Slave: New B drive. 400 GB
Secondary Master: Old A drive. 40 GB
Secondary Slave: Boot CD

After the compulsory press enter to boot I enter the following command at the bash promt:

mfsbackup -Tao - /dev/hdc | mfsrestore -s 127 -xzpi - /dev/hda /dev/hdb

The command completes and informs me that have 900 and something hours. I will die from a heart attack setting in my Lazy Boy with a TiVo remote in my hand. :)

I replaced the drives and plug the power up to the TiVo. It starts to boot up.

1.
Welcome! Powering up…

2.
Almost there. Just a few minutes more…

3. The Green Screen of Death
A severe error has occurred.

Please leave the Receiver plugged in and connected
to the phone line for the next three hours will the
Receiver attempts to repair itself.

DO NOT UNPLUG OR RESTART THE RECEIVER.

If, after three hours, the Receiver does not restart
itself, call Customer Care at 1-877-367-8486.

The whole process takes about 3 minutes. Which means my TiVo has rebooted about a zillion times since last night.

Please. Someone help me.

[Jamie]

My DVD player died and this was the excuse I needed to buy a HUMAX DVD recorder. I decided on the new DRT400, 40 hour model because hey, who owns a TiVo that's not upgraded anyway?

I bought 2 ~ Seagate 400 GB hard drives. (They WILL fit. Not pretty but just a little hacking, old school style. Pictures to follow.)The issues arise because of the size of the drives. There is an issue with partitions >274GB. You need to use -r 4 with mfsadd to work around that. You'll also want to run with a larger than normal swap. Search around a little. There are recent threads that cover these topics.

[TiVo_jimbo]

I just got it done finally w/ the -r 4 switch to the mfsadd command. I did it in two steps instead of one.

mfsbackup -Tao - /dev/hdX | mfsrestore -s 127 -zpi - /dev/hdY

then

mfsadd /dev/hdY -x -r 4

I guess it could have been done w/

mfsbackup -Tao - /dev/hdX | mfsrestore -s 127 -zpi -r 4 - /dev/hdY

I've not put the B drive in yet. I will though. right now I have a 487 hour TiVo w/ a built in DVD-R. :cool:

I this could have saved me a lot of panic and such if the problem was more documented.

BTW are there 2 IDE channels on the DRT400? If so... why not a C drive? With 400 GB drives this could get you up in the 1,500 hour range. ;)

[justmike]

I've not put the B drive in yet. I will though. right now I have a 487 hour TiVo w/ a built in DVD-R.

Congrads! I would just like to remind you that adding that second drive is going to increase the heat in the inside of the tivo by at least another 100 degrees F. So unless you are planning on a fan mod as well sooner or later something will break as a result of the heat.


BTW are there 2 IDE channels on the DRT400? If so... why not a C drive? With 400 GB drives this could get you up in the 1,500 hour range. ;) The reason for 2 IDE channels is so that you don't make pieces of plastic. Think it through, they may have been cautious on the engineering side but the goal was a consumer product that worked not a honking tivo with 3 drives and 1500 hours ... but hey why not live life on the edge :cool: