Once upon a time Glen Farney shaped the electrons to say... > Some units (like my Sony Series 1) can have a second drive added, the unit
All TiVos can have a second drive added, the only issue is how to mount it. DVRupgrade and WeaKnees sell custom brackets for some models of TiVo. > then "maries" the drives into one virtual drive. From that point on, > "divorce" involves starting over. You can't just substitute one drive for > another. When you add a second drive to a TiVo and marry it the file system is spread across both drives. You can remove the B drive without divorcing them first. And if either drive fails the unit is dead. > But I see no reason why you can't replace one or both, so long as the new > drives (or re-used) drives are "blessed" accordingly. A friend has done a > few hard drive swaps on his S2 over the years, as one drive got noisy, and > concerns about heat and power consumption with the dual drives prompted the > installation of a new single higher capacity drive. If you take the image from a standard drive and expand it for a larger drive, you can't re-expand it for another, even larger, drive. So say you took a 160GB TiVo HD drive and replace it with a 500GB drive. You won't be able to swap it out later for a 1TB drive. You'd have to have a backup of the original image from the 160GB to start from and expand from the 160GB image to the 1TB. Or you'd need something like Instant Cake to get the image. You can replace a drive with one of the same size - or larger if your willing to waste the space. If you do that 500GB upgrade then develop problems you could swap the drive for another 500GB drive by transferring the image over as is. The probablem is only with expanding the file system. -MZ -- megazone-at-megazone.org http://www.MegaZone.org/ Gweep, Geek, Human, me. http://www.GizmoLovers.com/ http://www.Eyrie-Productions.com/ -><- Hail Eris "A little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men" 508-852-2171
