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  • #1

    series 1 upgrade problem

    Hi,

    I just upped my 80GB hitachi to a 160GB WD drive in my series 1 Tivo.

    The original upgrade to the 80GB went without a hitch a couple of years back but this time, I have a problem.

    The drive contents have copied fine and I have all settings, recordings etc etc working fine on the new drive.

    (used 'dd if=/dev/hdc of=/dev/hdb bs=1024k' with orig in secondary master and new in primary slave))

    The problem is that when I run the mfsadd (tried both 'mfsadd -x /dev/hdb' & 'mfsadd -r 4 -x /dev/hdb') it comes straight back telling me theres nothing to add and I'm still stuck with the original 80GB capacity on the 160GB drive.

    Any ideas please?
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  • #2
    The problem is that a drive can only be expanded once. If you want to get a larger drive to replace an already-larger drive you need to lose the recordings. So you'd have to do a backup without recordings, and a then an image restore, with capacity add. You'd lose recordings, but not settings, and you'd get the extra space.
    Been here a long time . . .

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    • #3
      ah....how annoying.
      But thanks for pointing me in the direction of sanity.

      Will my series 1 tivo be able to utilize the full 160GB?
      I'm sure I read somewhere there was some limit of a 130 something GB but its lost in the dim recesses of my already dimming mind.

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      • #4
        Right - the limit for that model is 137 GB per drive, max of two drives.
        Been here a long time . . .

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