deadc0ed
01-30-2002, 02:26 AM
I've been lurking and reading for quite some time and decided to try a simple experiment. Here is the setup.
Sony T-60 with a 30Gig A and 15Gig B drive.
I have NOT run 25xtreme or flashed the eprom with the speed rom.
I am both a DirecTV and a TiVo subscriber but wanted to try a 'no phone line' patch so that I could put my Sony in a room in my house with no phone line, as I already have 2 additional subbed units in my living room.
I unplugged the phone line and waited until 30 days had passed and I lost TiVo functionallity.
Took the A drive out and mounted it in a PC, secondary master.
Grabbed tivoboot_v3.zip and made a boot disk.
Grabbed fixupz.zip and made a floppy of that.
Booted up with the boot disk and followed the directions for fixupZ. Installed the additional utilities. No problems.
Read somewhere about /etc/SubTest so I attempted to touch both /mnt/td/etc/SubTest and /mnt/tdv/etc/SubTest (these are the partitions mounted by fixupZ and I wasn't sure which etc got mounted as /etc when in the unit). Received an 'odd' error message from both attempts, something to the effect of "1: "(" expected" or some such (I forgot to write it down). I'm a professional programmer and am not unfamilar with linux so I instead used "echo . >/mnt/td/etc/SubTest" and "echo . >mnt/tdv/etc/SubTest".
Put the drive back in the unit and powered up. Still no recording. Tried to force a daily call, and of course it fails with "No Dial Tone".
I'm I mistaken about using a no-sub hack without 25xtreme?
Is the "echo ." command not sufficient for creating the SubTest file (I assume that some script is just sensing it's presence and does not care about the contents)?
I'm missing something basic here. I will eventually upgrade my drive with 25xtreme but was just playing around for now.
Thanks in advance for your time and attention.
the deadc0ed
-- 53000 Americans have died of lung cancer since 9/11. Why aren't we bombing Phillip Morris? --
Sony T-60 with a 30Gig A and 15Gig B drive.
I have NOT run 25xtreme or flashed the eprom with the speed rom.
I am both a DirecTV and a TiVo subscriber but wanted to try a 'no phone line' patch so that I could put my Sony in a room in my house with no phone line, as I already have 2 additional subbed units in my living room.
I unplugged the phone line and waited until 30 days had passed and I lost TiVo functionallity.
Took the A drive out and mounted it in a PC, secondary master.
Grabbed tivoboot_v3.zip and made a boot disk.
Grabbed fixupz.zip and made a floppy of that.
Booted up with the boot disk and followed the directions for fixupZ. Installed the additional utilities. No problems.
Read somewhere about /etc/SubTest so I attempted to touch both /mnt/td/etc/SubTest and /mnt/tdv/etc/SubTest (these are the partitions mounted by fixupZ and I wasn't sure which etc got mounted as /etc when in the unit). Received an 'odd' error message from both attempts, something to the effect of "1: "(" expected" or some such (I forgot to write it down). I'm a professional programmer and am not unfamilar with linux so I instead used "echo . >/mnt/td/etc/SubTest" and "echo . >mnt/tdv/etc/SubTest".
Put the drive back in the unit and powered up. Still no recording. Tried to force a daily call, and of course it fails with "No Dial Tone".
I'm I mistaken about using a no-sub hack without 25xtreme?
Is the "echo ." command not sufficient for creating the SubTest file (I assume that some script is just sensing it's presence and does not care about the contents)?
I'm missing something basic here. I will eventually upgrade my drive with 25xtreme but was just playing around for now.
Thanks in advance for your time and attention.
the deadc0ed
-- 53000 Americans have died of lung cancer since 9/11. Why aren't we bombing Phillip Morris? --