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My HW is a DirecTV Sony SAT-T60 upgraded from original 40GB drive to Western Digital Caviar 80GB, and containing a Cache Card. It has been working fine, except that I think the 80GB hard drive is about to fail. Single hard disk only.
Today I attempted an upgrade from the 80 GB to a WD Caviar 160 GB drive, using the long method (preserve existing recorded programming).
I followed Hinsdale Upgrade Config #3 with the following exceptions:
1-Both the source and target drives are jumpered as 'master with slave present'. They are connected to the correct primary and secondary ports. I left them jumpered this way because it worked this way for the cache card install and several backups.
2. MFS Tools 2.0 sees the old 80GB drive as hdc. It sees the new 160GB drive as hda
3. MFS tools scanned the source drive and reported that there is not enough room on the target drive by itself to do the restore.
4. I changed the command issued to MFS Tools from:
mfsbackup -Tao - /dev/hdc | mfsrestore -r 4 -s 127 -xzpi - /dev/hda
to:
mfsbackup -Tao - /dev/hdc | mfsrestore -r 4 -xzpi - /dev/hda
Same result--same error.
5. Decided to try to dd the drives. I followed Option 3 (limited use) but changed the command from:
dd if=/dev/hdc of=/dev/hdb bs=1024k
to
dd if=/dev/hdc of=/dev/hda bs=1024k (see #2 above)
Results:
1. The dd ran for about an hour. The 'blocks in' and 'blocks out' matched, but it reported an I/O error from the source drive.
2. I put the TiVo back together and it booted and ran uneventfully. The recorded programming transferred over. All functions I tried worked normally.
The issue:
Messages and Settings/System Info shows 'variable, up to 67 hours'. This is a bit less time than I had with the old drive. I rebooted the TiVo once, but no change.
I am suspicious of the jumper settings described above. I also don't really understand 'expanding' the bigger drive.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
m9ke
Today I attempted an upgrade from the 80 GB to a WD Caviar 160 GB drive, using the long method (preserve existing recorded programming).
I followed Hinsdale Upgrade Config #3 with the following exceptions:
1-Both the source and target drives are jumpered as 'master with slave present'. They are connected to the correct primary and secondary ports. I left them jumpered this way because it worked this way for the cache card install and several backups.
2. MFS Tools 2.0 sees the old 80GB drive as hdc. It sees the new 160GB drive as hda
3. MFS tools scanned the source drive and reported that there is not enough room on the target drive by itself to do the restore.
4. I changed the command issued to MFS Tools from:
mfsbackup -Tao - /dev/hdc | mfsrestore -r 4 -s 127 -xzpi - /dev/hda
to:
mfsbackup -Tao - /dev/hdc | mfsrestore -r 4 -xzpi - /dev/hda
Same result--same error.
5. Decided to try to dd the drives. I followed Option 3 (limited use) but changed the command from:
dd if=/dev/hdc of=/dev/hdb bs=1024k
to
dd if=/dev/hdc of=/dev/hda bs=1024k (see #2 above)
Results:
1. The dd ran for about an hour. The 'blocks in' and 'blocks out' matched, but it reported an I/O error from the source drive.
2. I put the TiVo back together and it booted and ran uneventfully. The recorded programming transferred over. All functions I tried worked normally.
The issue:
Messages and Settings/System Info shows 'variable, up to 67 hours'. This is a bit less time than I had with the old drive. I rebooted the TiVo once, but no change.
I am suspicious of the jumper settings described above. I also don't really understand 'expanding' the bigger drive.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
m9ke
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