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  • #1

    Upgrade of HumaxDRT800

    Love your site and the instructions, it's a wonderful service.

    I'm upgrading the stock 80GB drive to a 500GB Seagate DB35.

    I've tried to preserve and skip over recordings, in either case I don't get past "Powering up" with the new drive. Old drive has had some hiccups on system updates, but usually works fine. It's started clicking, so time to replace! I've been at this almost 2 weeks, always the same issue, new drive doesn't get past powering up, old drive works fine.

    I've got old drive as hdb and new drive as hdc (easier in my case).

    I've tried:
    mfsbackup -f 9999 -so - /dev/hdb | mfsrestore -s 127 -r 4 -xzpi - /dev/hdc

    and

    mfsbackup -Tao - /dev/hdb | mfsrestore -s 127 -r 4 -xzpi - /dev/hdc

    and dd and dd_rescue, just in case

    Nothing wrong with the new drive that a few dozen tools can find. I can mount the new drive and browse everything, it just won't boot.

    I've played with the jumpers. I've deleted all but 2 or 3 recordings. I'm completely out of ideas. Any chance InstantCake is a good option here? Hope someone has some ideas

    Thanks for your time!
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    Does the copy complete without errors in all cases?
    Been here a long time . . .

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    • #3
      It does. No errors at all.

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      • #4
        My next idea is to connect serial to tivo when it boots.

        I read somewhere that I need to modify the bootpage for it to output at startup. Do you know if that is true with this version tivo? I guess I can't break the new drive any worse

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        • #5
          I've never hacked in that way, so I really don't know what the story is with it. I've always performed the hacks on a PC in Linux, then booted back into the TiVo. But it's been years for me . . .

          How long do the mfs copies take when they complete with no errors? Have you tried a different destination drive? Have you tried making a backup to another drive, then restoring the backup?
          Been here a long time . . .

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          • #6
            The full copy (now down to 27GB) takes 3-4 hours. The just programs is pretty quick (1007MB), make a sandwich type time frame.

            I don't have another PATA drive that's over 20GB unfortunately. 3 or 4 spare SATA, but no adapters.

            Are you thinking it's the drive then? No possibility of boot page issues or something like that? I see this BlessTivo program but I haven't seen any descriptions that combine that with mfstools. Could a low-level format set me right? (I've tried a bunch of stuff before asking for help, silly hacker I am)

            Thanks for working through this with me, Michael.

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            • #7
              It really does sound like a drive. Mfstools really does all it needs to do. BlessTiVo is for adding a second drive - it's totally different.

              I'd really recommend trying a different drive.
              Been here a long time . . .

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              • #8
                Michael,

                You were right. I did manage to get the serial output working and tivo froze at the inital partition check. I decided to pave the drive with SeaTools and start over. Two different versions would freeze up as soon as they hit Track 0. I got a replacement from Seagate and everything works great. Thanks for your help!

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                • #9
                  Glad to hear it!

                  You know the old adage "to a hammer, everything looks like a nail?" Well, to a drive replacement company . . . but, that's because they really are the culprit in a huge percentage of problems.
                  Been here a long time . . .

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