A NOT so successful story with a T60

[RxMan]

First off, thanks to everyone who answered all of my questions as I prepared to modify my Tivo. I spent a week learning and getting ready with a nice little sheet to follow.

Well, I got my T60 today. I had already ran xtreme on a maxtor 40gig drive. I answered the questions correctly and said yes to TivoMad.

So, I opened the unit and removed the 30gig drive (it has 2 drives, a 30 and 15 gig). I replaced it with the 40gig and left the 15 unhooked. I had jumper set to cable and powered it up. It stuck and the powering up screen. I tried every jumper setting and different positions on the IDE cable.

At that point, I decided to put the 30gig drive back in and just power it up to see how things were supposed to run. It also got stuck at the powering up screen.

I have checked the ribbon from motherboard to power supply and checked the power to the drives and checked the IDE cables.

I really don't know how to proceed. It baffles me that the original setup doesn't load either.

Any suggestions?

[BubbleLamp]

First thing I would try is jumper the new drive as Master. I never trust cable select.

AFA the old drive not working, you cannot just reinstall the 30GB without the 15GB, since they are already married. I couldn't tell from your post if that's what you did. If so, connect them both and it should boot.

[RxMan]

I tried master with no luck.
When I hooked the original 30gig back up, I hooked both drives up the way they were when I cracked it open. I am baffled. If I messed something up, would the unit even power on? It does and the drive light comes on and the fan runs, etc....

Is the only way to turn it off when it is hung is to pull the power cord? That is what I have been doing. I also read some posts about having problems going from a 30gig to 40gig. This 40gig drive I bought came out of another non-sony combo unit. It is now going into a Sony. I don't think this matter since extreme erases everything anyways.

Can I get a bash prompt even though it hangs at powering up? How long should I see the powering up screen upon 1st boot attempt?

Thanks Again. All my well thought out plans have gone south.

[BubbleLamp]

Are you sure you let Xtreme to do its thing before you decided it was hung? It reboots a couple times during the initial process. I think some people aren't waiting long enough and are trashing their systems in the process. Sounds like at this point your PROM is probably (hopefully) flashed with the hack, which I think would prevent the original drives from working. I'd try re Xtremeing the new disk, and give it enough time to complete.

No, you can't get a bash prompt at this point.

[RxMan]

I will re xtreme. How long does the powering up screen stay on? I waited at least 5 minutes when I put the xtreme drive in.

[chainsawbob]

there probably some cable select wackeyness going on
with the stock ribbon cable. I changed out the stock
cable in my t60 long ago. remember where the drive is
pluged in on a cable select ribbon cable determines
whether the drive is the master or the slave. id
just put a standard ide cable in there, one less thing
to go wrong when your hacking around in side your
tivo....:)

[RxMan]

SUCCESS! I ran the maxtor powermax utility. The 1st time I got hard drive not fully recognized. I followed their instructions and made some BIOS changes. I re-did xtreme and it is currently loading.

I will be back later probably crying about how I can't get a bash prompt. (I hope not)

THANKS FOR THE HELP!!