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I have (had?) an 8 year old series 2 (model 230040) The 40 GB hard drive was making noises, so I figured it was finally time to upgrade. Bought a 500 GB drive & downloaded instructions from Weaknees and Hinsdale. Downloaded mfsTools from Weaknees and burned a boot disk. Unplugged my 2 drives, changed jumpers and connected the old & new Tivo drives. Booted from CD and Linux came up & everything was as I expected. The old drive was hda and showed 40gb, the new drive was hdb and showed 500 gb. Ran the copy command:
mfsbackup -Tao - /dev/hda | mfsrestore -s 127 -r 4 -xzpi - /dev/hdb
Backup & restore ran, showing progress. As advertised, it was slow because I was copying all of my recordings. It finally finished and showed over 500 hours available on the new drive. Life is good.
Installed the new drive in the TiVo with the jumper set to cable select, which was the setting on the old drive. Turned it on, and ... Fan runs, Screen says Welcome. Powering Up. And nothing happens. No drive sounds. No boot. I open the box & change the jumper setting to Master. Also notice that the ribbon cable to the front panel is now disconnected. Oops - I reconnect it. Try booting again with the same result. Switch back to the old drive. Still no boot - Same result. Re-read instructions (RTFM!). Hinsdale says some users have reporting damaging the Tivo by booting with the ribbon cable to the front panel disconnected. Oops - Did I boot with it out? Maybe - not sure. Try new drive again - No joy.
So - What's the verdict - Did I kill my TiVo? Except for the fact that it won't boot, it seems fine. Actually, it seems like it doesn't see the drive at all, but why not? And why wouldn't it see the old drive? (Yes, I set the jumper back to what it was).
Let me know what you think! Any help would be great! I'd love an excuse to get a new TiVo, but this one has (had?) lifetime service, so it's hard to let it go.
Spack
mfsbackup -Tao - /dev/hda | mfsrestore -s 127 -r 4 -xzpi - /dev/hdb
Backup & restore ran, showing progress. As advertised, it was slow because I was copying all of my recordings. It finally finished and showed over 500 hours available on the new drive. Life is good.
Installed the new drive in the TiVo with the jumper set to cable select, which was the setting on the old drive. Turned it on, and ... Fan runs, Screen says Welcome. Powering Up. And nothing happens. No drive sounds. No boot. I open the box & change the jumper setting to Master. Also notice that the ribbon cable to the front panel is now disconnected. Oops - I reconnect it. Try booting again with the same result. Switch back to the old drive. Still no boot - Same result. Re-read instructions (RTFM!). Hinsdale says some users have reporting damaging the Tivo by booting with the ribbon cable to the front panel disconnected. Oops - Did I boot with it out? Maybe - not sure. Try new drive again - No joy.
So - What's the verdict - Did I kill my TiVo? Except for the fact that it won't boot, it seems fine. Actually, it seems like it doesn't see the drive at all, but why not? And why wouldn't it see the old drive? (Yes, I set the jumper back to what it was).
Let me know what you think! Any help would be great! I'd love an excuse to get a new TiVo, but this one has (had?) lifetime service, so it's hard to let it go.
Spack
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