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I have 2 TivoDT 80GB.
I can follow all instructions (mfsbackup, mfsrestore, mfsadd) and able to finish upgrading my TiVoDT 80GB to 320GB or 250GB, and boot up OK.
However, I have no success to repeat the procedures for Seagate 400GB, no matter the 400GB is the only TiVo drive, or make it as the 2nd drive. After doing mfsadd –x /dev/hdk /dev/hdl I always get GSOD on 2 drives install, and the the previously OK TiVo A drive (320GB or 250GB or spare 80GB for test) will becomes seeing GSOD on power up under single drive(cable_select).
On my test MB, hda – hdh won’t safisfy reset from mfs2.0 LinuxCD boot (long wait on every bootup), so my primary IDE drives stays on hdI/hdJ and secondary IDE drives stay on hdK/hdL.
I have tried:
(1) 400GB on secondary master and backup drive on primary slave, DVDRW drive being the primary master,
mfsrestore –s 127 –bzpi /mnt/dos/tivo1b/bak /mnt/hdk
TiVoDT can boot up with 80 hrs capacity.
And if I put it back to Linux booted PC without backup drive on primary slave, further do
mfsadd –x /dev/hdk
I get GSOD on its TiVo boot
(2) I also tried to increase swap file size by
mfsrestore –s 300 –x –bzpi /mnt/dos/tivo1b/bak /mnt/hdk
and afterwards able to see MFS table:
/# mfsinfo /dev/hdk
The MFS volume set contains 6 partitions
/dev/hdk10
MFS Partition Size: 288MiB
/dev/hdk11
MFS Partition Size: 32991MiB
/dev/hdk12
MFS Partition Size: 288MiB
/dev/hdk13
MFS Partition Size: 41975MiB
/dev/hdk14
MFS Partition Size: 0MiB
/dev/hdk15
MFS Partition Size: 305188MiB
Total MFS Volume Size: 380731MiB
Estimated hours in a standalone TiVo: 462
This MFS volume may be expanded 3 more times.
GSOD still happens on TiVo boot
In a few days of back and forth tests, I am sure my procedures are OK, by successfully upgrading 80GB alone, 80GB(A)+250GB(B), 250GB alone, 320GB alone, but keep failing on 400GB alone, 320GB(A)+400GB(B), 250GB(A)+400GB(B). I suspect the mfsadd from MFS 2.0 tool is not able to accommodate 400GB Seagate HDD, since after mfsadd on 400GB combinations, mfsinfo can’t get good reading from tivo A or B drive, I also tried to skip mfsadd step, by adding –x (expand to fill) when doing mfsrestore. By this I can read mfsinfo as above, but still unable to boot up Tivo without GSOD.
From Weaknees’ upgrade kit offers for purchase I know there must be a way to make 400GB or even 750GB IDE drive upgrades work. As there is no mentioning of special steps for 400+GB HDD for mfstool 2.0, what did I do wrong?
Your help will be greatly appreciated, for making my TwinBreeze kit to work!
I can follow all instructions (mfsbackup, mfsrestore, mfsadd) and able to finish upgrading my TiVoDT 80GB to 320GB or 250GB, and boot up OK.
However, I have no success to repeat the procedures for Seagate 400GB, no matter the 400GB is the only TiVo drive, or make it as the 2nd drive. After doing mfsadd –x /dev/hdk /dev/hdl I always get GSOD on 2 drives install, and the the previously OK TiVo A drive (320GB or 250GB or spare 80GB for test) will becomes seeing GSOD on power up under single drive(cable_select).
On my test MB, hda – hdh won’t safisfy reset from mfs2.0 LinuxCD boot (long wait on every bootup), so my primary IDE drives stays on hdI/hdJ and secondary IDE drives stay on hdK/hdL.
I have tried:
(1) 400GB on secondary master and backup drive on primary slave, DVDRW drive being the primary master,
mfsrestore –s 127 –bzpi /mnt/dos/tivo1b/bak /mnt/hdk
TiVoDT can boot up with 80 hrs capacity.
And if I put it back to Linux booted PC without backup drive on primary slave, further do
mfsadd –x /dev/hdk
I get GSOD on its TiVo boot
(2) I also tried to increase swap file size by
mfsrestore –s 300 –x –bzpi /mnt/dos/tivo1b/bak /mnt/hdk
and afterwards able to see MFS table:
/# mfsinfo /dev/hdk
The MFS volume set contains 6 partitions
/dev/hdk10
MFS Partition Size: 288MiB
/dev/hdk11
MFS Partition Size: 32991MiB
/dev/hdk12
MFS Partition Size: 288MiB
/dev/hdk13
MFS Partition Size: 41975MiB
/dev/hdk14
MFS Partition Size: 0MiB
/dev/hdk15
MFS Partition Size: 305188MiB
Total MFS Volume Size: 380731MiB
Estimated hours in a standalone TiVo: 462
This MFS volume may be expanded 3 more times.
GSOD still happens on TiVo boot
In a few days of back and forth tests, I am sure my procedures are OK, by successfully upgrading 80GB alone, 80GB(A)+250GB(B), 250GB alone, 320GB alone, but keep failing on 400GB alone, 320GB(A)+400GB(B), 250GB(A)+400GB(B). I suspect the mfsadd from MFS 2.0 tool is not able to accommodate 400GB Seagate HDD, since after mfsadd on 400GB combinations, mfsinfo can’t get good reading from tivo A or B drive, I also tried to skip mfsadd step, by adding –x (expand to fill) when doing mfsrestore. By this I can read mfsinfo as above, but still unable to boot up Tivo without GSOD.
From Weaknees’ upgrade kit offers for purchase I know there must be a way to make 400GB or even 750GB IDE drive upgrades work. As there is no mentioning of special steps for 400+GB HDD for mfstool 2.0, what did I do wrong?
Your help will be greatly appreciated, for making my TwinBreeze kit to work!
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