Nick's Tivo gets a bigger hard drive.
These notes follow the steps I took, following the instructions by Hinsdale.
Inspired by Andrew's success, I acquire a Western Digital hard drive 200 GB IDE. (Maplin £69.99)
1,
Burn MFStools CDROM. (Down loaded image of Tiger’s MFS Tools Boot CD.)
2,
Remove existing 40GB hard drive from Tivo. (Model PVR10UK) This is to be cloned then kept on a shelf as a back up.
3,
Temporarily remove existing hard drives from "Timmy". (I name PCs after a South Park characters.)
4,
Install new 200GB drive as Master, 40 GB as Slave. Boot from CDROM.
Instructions want the hard drive links to explicitly be Master or Slave - "Don't use
cable select."
Paranoia? I observe their request!
5,
Boot from MFStools CDROM. I check that the boot sequence "unlocks" the Maxtor 40GB drive and reports the correct size.
6,
For now I'm ignoring the LBA48 addressing issue. My new drive will be seen as 137GB.
7,
A Unix rune:
dd if=/dev/hdb of=/dev/hda bs=1024k
hdb is the source; hda is the destination.
This clones the drive, complete with recording. (If I was a Linux geek I would be saying "Ah yes! The dd command. I remember...")
This command took around 40 minutes to complete.
8,
A MFS Tools rune that tells the Tivo it's miraculously grown a few extra GB:
mfsadd -x /dev/hda
9,
Restore Timmy's original drives.
10,
Install new 200 GB drive in Tivo. Drive set to master. Test for a week!
(The Tivo settings now boasts 45 hours capacity.)
Network access... to follow!
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