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I bought a reconditioned HD112 on E-bay 5 or 6 years ago and immediately had a friend upgrade it with a Maxtor 120 GB drive. In July, the unit began to stutter and pixelate on both playback and live TV.
All the reading I did suggested that it was a HD problem, so I bought a WD 160 GB drive and used the Hinsdale How-To and MFSTOOLS 2.0 to copy our recordings from the previous two drives to the single new one. The unit seemed to work fine, for about three days, until it froze and refused to get past the first black screen on startup.
I repeated the process, and had the same result. This time, before it froze, I noticed that it wasn’t completing its daily call. A Google search found a similar problem described on a different forum and suggested a “kickstart.”
I put the original drives back in and had the same problem of not being able to complete a call, until after the kickstart and then it worked fine, except for the old stuttering problem.
I repeated the backup procedure again, hoping that the kickstart had fixed the problem, and restored the image, without saving the recordings this time.
I’m still having problems completing a call, despite several kickstarts with the new drive. The unit lists “Last call status: failed while loading series.” The kickstarts seem to postpone the three-day freeze.
The commands I used were:
mfsbackup –6so /mnt/dos/tivo.bak /dev/hdc /dev/hdb
mfsrestore –r 4 –s 127 –zpi /mnt/dos/tivo.bak /dev/hdb
mfsadd –r 4 –x /dev/hdc /dev/hdb
Do you have any advice to help me get my Tivo back?
Thanks,
Craig
All the reading I did suggested that it was a HD problem, so I bought a WD 160 GB drive and used the Hinsdale How-To and MFSTOOLS 2.0 to copy our recordings from the previous two drives to the single new one. The unit seemed to work fine, for about three days, until it froze and refused to get past the first black screen on startup.
I repeated the process, and had the same result. This time, before it froze, I noticed that it wasn’t completing its daily call. A Google search found a similar problem described on a different forum and suggested a “kickstart.”
I put the original drives back in and had the same problem of not being able to complete a call, until after the kickstart and then it worked fine, except for the old stuttering problem.
I repeated the backup procedure again, hoping that the kickstart had fixed the problem, and restored the image, without saving the recordings this time.
I’m still having problems completing a call, despite several kickstarts with the new drive. The unit lists “Last call status: failed while loading series.” The kickstarts seem to postpone the three-day freeze.
The commands I used were:
mfsbackup –6so /mnt/dos/tivo.bak /dev/hdc /dev/hdb
mfsrestore –r 4 –s 127 –zpi /mnt/dos/tivo.bak /dev/hdb
mfsadd –r 4 –x /dev/hdc /dev/hdb
Do you have any advice to help me get my Tivo back?
Thanks,
Craig
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