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I have a Philips DSR7000/17 DirecTV Tivo. I installed a 500gig hard drive to upgrade the stock 40gig drive.
Following step 10, upgrade configuration 3 on this page, I did an exact copy from my original drive to my new drive using the command:
mfsbackup -Tao - /dev/hdc | mfsrestore -r 4 -s 127 -xzpi - /dev/hda
When I put my new drive in after the copy completed (long time, but worth it, I don't want to lose my recordings), everything comes up just fine for a while. Watching a show, it will stutter briefly once in a while, and in rather short time the receiver will hard lock. The only way to get it back is to unplug it and plug it back in, but it will, without failure, hard lock again within a half-hour.
I did the copy again, upping the swap partition to 500 meg, but that didn't solve the problem.
Going into System Information (in the rare case I can get there before the receiver hard locks), it does recognize the full capacity of my new drive (~440 hours), and that it's running software version 6.4a-01-2-101. There is one thing that always seemed kind of odd to me though. When the copy completes (still hooked up to the PC), it says that my recording capacity has increased to ~580 hours, which is not true. My Tivo; however, does report the correct recording capacity of ~440 hours.
If I put the original 40gig drive back in, it works flawlessly. Thinking my new drive was bad I had it replaced, and this new drive is doing the exact same thing.
Following step 10, upgrade configuration 3 on this page, I did an exact copy from my original drive to my new drive using the command:
mfsbackup -Tao - /dev/hdc | mfsrestore -r 4 -s 127 -xzpi - /dev/hda
When I put my new drive in after the copy completed (long time, but worth it, I don't want to lose my recordings), everything comes up just fine for a while. Watching a show, it will stutter briefly once in a while, and in rather short time the receiver will hard lock. The only way to get it back is to unplug it and plug it back in, but it will, without failure, hard lock again within a half-hour.
I did the copy again, upping the swap partition to 500 meg, but that didn't solve the problem.
Going into System Information (in the rare case I can get there before the receiver hard locks), it does recognize the full capacity of my new drive (~440 hours), and that it's running software version 6.4a-01-2-101. There is one thing that always seemed kind of odd to me though. When the copy completes (still hooked up to the PC), it says that my recording capacity has increased to ~580 hours, which is not true. My Tivo; however, does report the correct recording capacity of ~440 hours.
If I put the original 40gig drive back in, it works flawlessly. Thinking my new drive was bad I had it replaced, and this new drive is doing the exact same thing.
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