Blesstivo Problems

[sschwar2]

Greetings,

I am trying to upgrade my Hughes DirecTivo drive space using BlessTivo. The additional hard drive is from my SA Sony. I pulled the drive from the SA, ran BlessTivo and it came back with 76gb (on an 80gb drive Maxtor drive). I installed it using the same cable from the SA and put it in my Hughes. The drive space did not increase. I have tried playing with many jumper configurations (cable select/master/slave/etc) -- positioning the drives differently on the cable (main drive last on the chain and first on the chain), formating the drive, running MacBlesstivo, and nothing seems to be working.

It doesn't appear the Tivo is seeing it at all because I can pull the second drive the Tivo boots up fine.

Any ideas?

[groundhog]

The Hughs only has one power connection(for the A drive only). I assume that you used an adapter to provide power for the B drive. Did you verify that the drive appears to be powering up correctly? Have you tried using a different IDC Cable? Maybe the one from your stadalone has a bad slave connector.

[sschwar2]

I did get a Y adapter, and did verify that there was power to the drive. I guess I should try another IDE cable, although it came right out of my SA that had both drives working.

[groundhog]

I'm Stumped. :( I've never had a problem blessing a drive and dropping it in a DSR6K or a SA. Someone else here is running into similar problems(SilverMan). I don't know what's going on?

[groundhog]

Sorry. I guess it was Silverdude. Here's his thread:

Blesstivo Problem Thread (http://dealdatabase.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=29622#post29622)

[sschwar2]

From the other threads .. it doesn't make a difference if 25xtreme is on the unit right? The only thing I can think of is the cable not working properly .. but it doesn't make complete sense b/c I took it right out of a unit that was using it on my SA. Very Very odd.

ARGH.

[groundhog]

See the thread that I linked above. I guess that in some cases you may need to run tivomad with both drives attached to the PC(at the same time) to increase recording time. The thing about Extreme is that it can be used with a tivo with a 30 gig or 40 gig drive. It comes from a backup from the (30 gig)A drive of dual drive unit. This may lead to problems with adding the B drive because if you restore it to a 40 gig drive, then it is an expanded image. I don't know?

[sschwar2]

That makes a lot of sense .. well kinda -- w/ the expanding to the other 10 gigs to make my 40gb.

When you say connect to TivoMad, are you talking about redoing the Xtreme25? THat would mean losing everything right?

[groundhog]

I'm sorry, but I haven't been able to look into the details of how to do it. I think that extreme would be the easiest way for you, and should ask you if you are using one or 2 drives. The Hinsdale guide should tell you how to use Tivomad to restore to 2 drives, as well. Either way, you will lose your recordings. With tivomad, you MAY be able to keep your season passes, etc?

[sschwar2]

Right on. I just did the TivoMad "divorce" with my Stand Alone to get the drive for the DTivo. Sounds like the best method to concur this task. Anyone know if the "touch" fix will still exist once I restore with Tivomad?

[BubbleLamp]

If it was touched before you did a tivomad backup, it'll still be there after a restore. Just the MFS stuff doesn't get backed up by default.

[sschwar2]

Anybody recommend whether or not I should have the new (larger) drive or the factory drive as the main tivo drive?

[groundhog]

Most people use the original Tivo Drive as drive A and a larger drive as B. The only time people usually put a larger drive as an A drive is if they ugrade both drives (example 2 100 Gig drives).