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Sorry to have so little detail on some of the initial steps, I didn't write the errors down as I worked through them. Most are probably irrelevant, but I wanted to provide the history. I used the correct drive designations, but I have moved the drives so much at this point, I don't want to recreate them so I'm just listing the generic instruction:
Upgrading Tivo 540040, from a too-noisy Maxtor Quickview 40GB to single Seagate DB35 250 GB, with temporary 30GB fat32 partition for backup.
Started with the weaknees_lba_boot_cd.iso. The Maxtor drive showed around a 33GB capacity, but it wasn't locked.
"mount /dev/hdZ1 /mnt" gave me the "kmod: failed to exec" error, but I forged ahead, then
"mfsbackup -f 9999 -1so /mnt/backup.bak /dev/hdX /dev/hdY" seemed to hang at somewhere around 49% and the cursor would flash along the bottom of the screen. (Tried more than once with different sized fat32 partitions, hung at the same place.)
Found a few threads with suggestions: I couldn't find the weaknees_sata.iso and another thread suggested "Tiger's Mfs Tools Boot CD (MFSLBA48.iso), linked to on the Hinsdale" site so I used that.
mkdir /mnt/dos
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/dos
mfsbackup -f 9999 -6so /mnt/dos/tivo.bak /dev/hdc
All golden, got a very large, currently untested backup, which is now safe on my Windows drive.
Then I issued the "Command to copy/expand from single drive to new single larger A drive:"
mfsbackup -Tao - /dev/hdc | mfsrestore -r 4 -s 127 -xzpi - /dev/hda
Everything seemed to go perfectly, but the last two lines on the screen read:
Adding pair /dev/hda14-/dev/hda15
New estimated standalone size: 282 hours (242 more)
I'm not a Linux person, but I didn't think I'd issued any add command. I want to replace the noisy drive, not expand it. How do I get where I need to go from here? At this point, the new large drive is Primary Master and the old Tivo drive is Secondary Master.
Also, this is a refurbished unit, hence previously opened, so I figured I could shelve the untouched 40GB and put it back in the unit if I ever needed the unit replaced through Tivo again. (Although I'm sure there are other signs I've been messing around.) Is my thinking sound? Have I now done something to the drive and can I undo it?
Thanks and Happy 4th!
Kelly
Upgrading Tivo 540040, from a too-noisy Maxtor Quickview 40GB to single Seagate DB35 250 GB, with temporary 30GB fat32 partition for backup.
Started with the weaknees_lba_boot_cd.iso. The Maxtor drive showed around a 33GB capacity, but it wasn't locked.
"mount /dev/hdZ1 /mnt" gave me the "kmod: failed to exec" error, but I forged ahead, then
"mfsbackup -f 9999 -1so /mnt/backup.bak /dev/hdX /dev/hdY" seemed to hang at somewhere around 49% and the cursor would flash along the bottom of the screen. (Tried more than once with different sized fat32 partitions, hung at the same place.)
Found a few threads with suggestions: I couldn't find the weaknees_sata.iso and another thread suggested "Tiger's Mfs Tools Boot CD (MFSLBA48.iso), linked to on the Hinsdale" site so I used that.
mkdir /mnt/dos
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/dos
mfsbackup -f 9999 -6so /mnt/dos/tivo.bak /dev/hdc
All golden, got a very large, currently untested backup, which is now safe on my Windows drive.
Then I issued the "Command to copy/expand from single drive to new single larger A drive:"
mfsbackup -Tao - /dev/hdc | mfsrestore -r 4 -s 127 -xzpi - /dev/hda
Everything seemed to go perfectly, but the last two lines on the screen read:
Adding pair /dev/hda14-/dev/hda15
New estimated standalone size: 282 hours (242 more)
I'm not a Linux person, but I didn't think I'd issued any add command. I want to replace the noisy drive, not expand it. How do I get where I need to go from here? At this point, the new large drive is Primary Master and the old Tivo drive is Secondary Master.
Also, this is a refurbished unit, hence previously opened, so I figured I could shelve the untouched 40GB and put it back in the unit if I ever needed the unit replaced through Tivo again. (Although I'm sure there are other signs I've been messing around.) Is my thinking sound? Have I now done something to the drive and can I undo it?
Thanks and Happy 4th!
Kelly
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