The new drive should be set as "slave." Did it arrive that way?

Put in jumpers to config new/slave to "slave"; no luck!

It's a Diamond 10 Maxtor drive, and from what I can find on the Maxtor site, there should be one jumpers to put it into a slave configuration. However, it has NO jumpers. The upgrade documentation says (and I quote) DO NOT MAKE ANY JUMPER CHANGES TO ANY DRIVE(S) THAT YOU RECEIVE IN YOUR UPGRADE KIT. However, there weren't any jumpers on the drive to change.

I do not that in some other Maxtor documentation, it says slave mode is enabled with no jumpers, seemingly contradicting the detailed jumper guide on their site.

So now I've tried putting on a single jumper as shown on the Maxtor site for the Diamond 10 to put it into slave mode...still no luck.

Frustrating...

Next I guess I'd wonder if the IDE cable they sent has a problem?? Is there some way to be sure the power cables are all functional?

I'm thinking of reconfiguring the whole box and seeing if I can get the new large drive working as a single drive; can I do that leaving it where it is and connecting it to the end of the IDE cable that has the two connectors, and configuring it for "cable select" via jumper? Or do I need to change the IDE cable to a single ended one? (That requires pulling back out the bracket...).

Similarly, can I use the long cable, keep one end disconnected from the new drive, configure the jumper on the old primary drive back to cable select, and thereby ensure that I have broken anything fundamental in the box? If I can't use the long cable with one connecter unplugged, again I've got to rebuild the whole box.

Thank for the help!!

-Kevin

Right - a Maxtor as a slave should have no jumper (or a horizontal jumper, which is a storage position).

You can't reconfigure to use just the new drive since it was formatted as an 'add' drive.

Yes, you can put the unit back to just the master by changing the jumper and just using the black and blue cable ends.

Back to original...still dead!

I've now moved my Hughes Tivo back back to exactly how it was before installing the upgrade kit, including removing the added bracket, going back to the original power cable without the extender, going back to the original IDE cable. I don't remember which of the 3 "non-left-most" positions the jumper was in before I moved it to the left most as directed in the kit...but I've tried all three and it fails in all three positions. "Welcome. Powering up...".

So for $180, I bought myself a dead Tivo box. I can't figure what I would have broken...I'm reasonably handy with PC's, cables etc, and I was careful. But it appears to be toast. (I guess I haven't tried it w/o any jumper, but there was absolutely a jumper on the disk when I first took it apart.)

I'm down to last straws, meaning "buy a new tivo box". One with a larger disk...

Or you can email us ([email protected]) and we can tell you how to send us the unit for reformatting and testing.

Any luck? I was trying to add an additional drive to my Hughes HDRV2 and got the same response. After a while, I put the original HDRV2 back together and with the original drive and cables....same Powering Up message. Very frustrated....any suggestions?

Can you tell us what you were doing with your add drive? Did you use Linux, or was it a drive kit?