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Hello weaKnees,
What an amazing resource you have with knowledge, repairs, replacements et. al. I'm so glad to have found you.
Background:
In our household we're uber-geeks, with lots of home-brewed media service hardware/software. (TrueNAS, Kodi, Logitech Media Server, etc.)
The internal drive on our Tivo Bolt+ died. We agree with the weaKnees idea of replacing the internal drive with a 3 1/2 inch drive with both bigger physical and storage size. We researched, and picked up a WD Red+ replacement.
We used ddrescue to recover the data from the old drive and imaged it onto the replacement drive.
On the workbench, we cabled the drive onto the TiVo and Viola! It was back up and happy.
The issue:
We searched high and low for the minimum length cables to create the boxed up external solution and found:
right angle SATA adapter.
SATA to eSATA panel mount cable 12 inches long.
eSATA to eSATA cable 18 inches long.
Total cable length: 33 inches, within the eSATA spec.
But alas, no joy. The drive does not work.
My question:
The weaKnees kit mentions a "Custom SATA Cable" and "eSATA Extension Cable"
Can you guys share the secret of what cabling you provide that results in a working drive? Is that cabling available for purchase?
What an amazing resource you have with knowledge, repairs, replacements et. al. I'm so glad to have found you.
Background:
In our household we're uber-geeks, with lots of home-brewed media service hardware/software. (TrueNAS, Kodi, Logitech Media Server, etc.)
The internal drive on our Tivo Bolt+ died. We agree with the weaKnees idea of replacing the internal drive with a 3 1/2 inch drive with both bigger physical and storage size. We researched, and picked up a WD Red+ replacement.
We used ddrescue to recover the data from the old drive and imaged it onto the replacement drive.
On the workbench, we cabled the drive onto the TiVo and Viola! It was back up and happy.
The issue:
We searched high and low for the minimum length cables to create the boxed up external solution and found:
right angle SATA adapter.
SATA to eSATA panel mount cable 12 inches long.
eSATA to eSATA cable 18 inches long.
Total cable length: 33 inches, within the eSATA spec.
But alas, no joy. The drive does not work.
My question:
The weaKnees kit mentions a "Custom SATA Cable" and "eSATA Extension Cable"
Can you guys share the secret of what cabling you provide that results in a working drive? Is that cabling available for purchase?
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