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    TiVo A+B to TiVo A upgrade

    Hello all,

    I purchased an additional bracket from WK a while back and it's time to move on to bigger drives already. I had wanted to consolidate my 2 drives into 1 drive and keep my recordings, but this appears to be a major hurdle and I'm getting pretty frustrated.

    Will the WK boot disk work for this? WinMFS and MFSLive don't.

    So sonce I haven't looked into WK in almost 2 years, can this be done? If not, I may just buy a second, identical drive and go A+B to A+B. I don't really want to go out and spend anoter $75 or $100 for another drive, but if it will be easier I might be tempted.

    Thanks for any help you can provide.

    Sam
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    OK, so I tried getting this done last night and was unable to get it done.

    Here's the setup:

    /dev/hda: Tivo A
    /dev/hdb: Tivo B
    /dev/hdc: New Tivo A
    /dev/hdd: CD-ROM

    Here's the MFS tools command I was using:

    mfsbackup -Tao - /dev/hda /dev/hdb | restore -s 127 -r 4 -(x)zpi - /dev/sda /dev/hdd

    No matter what, I ended up getting backup target too small errors. I tried different partitions using fdisk, I tried everything. I probably only hosed my drive in the process. In a moment of desperation, I booted into windows to look at the partition (the disk was not mounted and did not have a drive letter associated with it), and it reported a healthy, bootable FAT partition.

    I'm certain that this is an issue with formatting or partitioning, but no instructionset on the internet has any specific instructions on drive prep. I ran into the exact same issue last time I did this, but I must have gotten lucky somehow and fixed it with some tool on the boot disk.

    If anybody could help, it would be great.

    Thanks.

    Sam
    Last edited by GaWd; 04-12-2008, 09:01 AM.

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    • #3
      Forget it. I gave in and DD'd the B drive to new HDD. THen, since MFSadd gave me "nothing to do" messages, I fired up my PC and used WinMFS to expand the drive. It took only a few seconds.

      The only oddity is that I went from a 40gb + 80gb setup at 104 hours to a 40gb + 320gb setup that now reports 319 hours of record time. Would there really be 40gb of overhead or something?
      Last edited by GaWd; 04-12-2008, 01:50 PM.

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      • #4
        It's generally about .875 hours per GB, so 360 * .875 = 315, while 120 * .875 = 105. Sounds about right.
        Been here a long time . . .

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