Thread: Adding Original Tivo Drive As Second Drive

By "label" you mean...? MY name for it? Some other name I have to figure out? I already formatted a complete 500gig drive as a DOS drive yesterday, it's empty except for the virtual machine, because that's where I put it.

Perfict, connect it boot MFSLive and see if it shows up with the command cat /proc/partitions.

Quote: Originally Posted by tbenz345 All, My search didn't find a recent post with these topics... if there is one, please direct me there, and sorry for the spam. I have 2 Series 2 DirecTivos (HDVR2 running 6.2 software, Philips7000/17 running 6.3 both upgraded HDs performed by MFS a few years back) and would like to upgrade to 6.4a, but we haven't had a home phone line in quite some time (as evidenced by our out of date software)....

I got the bracket kit on Friday and did the upgrade yesterday and it worked perfectly. msfadd cleared and partitioned the old drive just as I hoped and now I have an extra 80gb of storage.

Another update: After a few days, it appears that Tivo just has a bug in it. After queueing up too many MRV shows, you'll start getting Error #86. This will then prevent you from MRVing anything else, or even recording a new show. After the queue shrinks, the error goes away. I seem to be able to queue up more SD shows than HD shows before the problem occurs, so perhaps it's based on amount of space? Something to do with allocating...

Quote: Originally Posted by tivoupgrade This sounds *very* suspicious to me; you may want to double-check that with another CSR... I just got the new unit today along with the new access card. I haven't opened the boxes yet or opened the mailer with the access card in it, I wanted to call and confirm first. I just spoke with a CSR who confirmed that I'm still under no contract with DTV at this point.

I think that's meant to indicate that the stock S2 DT Tivo only has a bracket included that can accommodate a single drive. Other Tivos originally came with brackets for two drives. This includes the original S1 SA Tivos (it had the space but the actual bracket was an optional accessory) and the S1 DTivos. The first S2 SA models had a similar, if not exactly the same, bracket as the S1 DTivos which could hold two drives. The later S2...

Thanks to you both.

Quote: Originally Posted by Eddief66 I got the bracket kit on Friday and did the upgrade yesterday and it worked perfectly. msfadd cleared and partitioned the old drive just as I hoped and now I have an extra 80gb of storage. Sweet! I may do the same, not enough room on the old 80 hour S2DT...

Looks like I found the problem. While both are S2, they are different models. My brothers Tivo is a TCD230040 while mine is a TCD649080. Got an image from a TCD230040 and it works fine.