Call Interrupted on ethernet enabled Series 1

[wethackrey]

Hey gang... anyone know a fix for this? I have a series 1 (Sony) that has been happily plugging away for a couple of years now with a 9th Tee ethernet adapter and two 160GB drives. Today I got a message saying I had only three days of program information left. A test call works correctly, getting online and setting the clock. A forced daily call, however, fails with a "Call Interrupted" error at about 6 minutes into the download step. I've restarted the box and tried the process a multitude of times. In all cases the download fails at just about the same point - 6 minutes into the download. Coincidently Tivo sent an update telephone number at about the same time as my last sucessful call... but since I'm not using phone numbers I would think this would have an effect... unless they changed something else at the same time.

In any case, can anyone suggest a fix? The box effectively turns into a toaster in 3 days. I'm checked my network connection through broadbandreports and don't seem to be losing packets... nor is there anything else using the network connection.

[Narf54321]

I haven't used a Series1 in years, but a couple of things to try:

0) Is the S1 hacked, so that you can telnet into it and poke around? I'd assume so, since you have a network card in it.

1) Do your tivo logs show anything interesting?

2) Are you out of harddisk space? If your /var is full or misreporting its available free-space, your data download might be failing.

3) I'm not sure about S1 units, but try a kickstart 57 or 58 to try and clean up the disk and MFS.

4) Switch the network connection back to modem, then back again to your network card (not sure how this works exactly with an S1, is it the old ,#401 trick?)

5) On my S2 units, I can usually run Guided Setup again to clear the S2 certificates and refill the Guide Data without losing my recordings. Try the dreaded Guided Setup.

6) If all else fails, you could attempt the dreaded Clear and Delete Everything.

7) Restore from an old backup image (or one of those Instant Cake CDs for your model TiVo.)

[wethackrey]

Narf... thanks for the quick reply.

The S1 IS hacked but unfornunately I lost telnet access when Tivo did a volume swap a while back. At least I lot web... I think telnet also but I'll check tonight. Regarding disk space, that's entirely possible. I'll check. Thanks again for all of the great info.