Complicated. So why did I have to buy a TiVo HD with an upgraded drive, I saw no options for adding a drive to that unit. Not that I'm not happy with a single drive.
Glen ----- Original Message ----- From: "MegaZone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, July 07, 2008 7:51 PM Subject: Re: [TiVo Central] Freezing Tivo fixed > 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 > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > >
