Bitswap
03-17-2006, 01:29 PM
Hi,
The hard drives in my SAT T-60 finally gave out. I got the GSOD a few times and it repaired itself and finally got stuck on "powering up". Luckly I had an image of it that I restored and it's working fine now with 2.5.2.
Now I want to pull some recording off the old drives. Not sure what I did with the old drives, I know noscramble was installed.
I tried mfsbackup | mfsrestore with -a and without. Both no go on the Tivo. Tried to install 2.5Xtreme, still no go. Possibly cause that version of Xtreme was for a DSR6000(?) or such. I know I have the T60 versoin around somewhere.
I've decided to use mfs_uberexport obtained <a href="http://www.dealdatabase.com/forum/showthread.php?t=39487" target="_blank">here</a>... since all my restores failed.
First: verify file structure. I can boot with mfstools (or xtreme for byteswapping problems) for this.
mkdir /4; mount /dev/hda4 /4 << primary programs
mkdir /7; mount /dev/hdc7 /7 << intid backups?
I'm not sure were the partitions are for the recordings or where /etc or /var is. One would assume '1' for the /bin, /etc, /var, but I don't think that's the case. Any help on what to look for in these structures would be great.
If the partitions look ok, I was thinking I could just copy (cp /4/<fsid>.ty /mnt/dos) one ty stream to fat32 and verify it's not scrambled with TyTool. This should work, don't you think?
If the ty streams are not scrambled, I'm cooking with gas! I'll build the Linux box. It would really be nice to have all Unified utilities on a bootable cd-rom instead of building a Linux system... possibly swap out mfstools cd?
Thoughts?
Configuration:
Sony SAT-T60 Series 1
Old Drive A: 40 gig
Old Drive B: 120 gig
Old installs: mfsadd, noscramble, 25Xtreme? (not sure how to check)
prom now flashed to 2.5.2, no tivonet (killinitd)
runs great on 2.5.2, even got locals back.
The hard drives in my SAT T-60 finally gave out. I got the GSOD a few times and it repaired itself and finally got stuck on "powering up". Luckly I had an image of it that I restored and it's working fine now with 2.5.2.
Now I want to pull some recording off the old drives. Not sure what I did with the old drives, I know noscramble was installed.
I tried mfsbackup | mfsrestore with -a and without. Both no go on the Tivo. Tried to install 2.5Xtreme, still no go. Possibly cause that version of Xtreme was for a DSR6000(?) or such. I know I have the T60 versoin around somewhere.
I've decided to use mfs_uberexport obtained <a href="http://www.dealdatabase.com/forum/showthread.php?t=39487" target="_blank">here</a>... since all my restores failed.
First: verify file structure. I can boot with mfstools (or xtreme for byteswapping problems) for this.
mkdir /4; mount /dev/hda4 /4 << primary programs
mkdir /7; mount /dev/hdc7 /7 << intid backups?
I'm not sure were the partitions are for the recordings or where /etc or /var is. One would assume '1' for the /bin, /etc, /var, but I don't think that's the case. Any help on what to look for in these structures would be great.
If the partitions look ok, I was thinking I could just copy (cp /4/<fsid>.ty /mnt/dos) one ty stream to fat32 and verify it's not scrambled with TyTool. This should work, don't you think?
If the ty streams are not scrambled, I'm cooking with gas! I'll build the Linux box. It would really be nice to have all Unified utilities on a bootable cd-rom instead of building a Linux system... possibly swap out mfstools cd?
Thoughts?
Configuration:
Sony SAT-T60 Series 1
Old Drive A: 40 gig
Old Drive B: 120 gig
Old installs: mfsadd, noscramble, 25Xtreme? (not sure how to check)
prom now flashed to 2.5.2, no tivonet (killinitd)
runs great on 2.5.2, even got locals back.