Single Step Method 2-drive upgrade fails

[durrence]

I am trying to upgrade a Series 1 Philips TIVO with two 30 GB Maxtor drives to use two 160 GB Maxtor drives. I dont mind if it only uses 137 GB of each drive if it will simplify the installation.

I am using UPGRADE CONFIGURATION #5 of the instructions at:

http://www.newreleasesvideo.com/hins...to/index9.html

I connect all four drives and boot from the latest boot floppy. All drives are detected properly by the BIOS.

When I enter the command: "mfsbackup -Tao - /dev/hda /dev/hdb | mfsrestore -r 4 -s 127 -xzpi - /dev/hdc /dev/hdd" it fails and gives me the usage for mfsrestore which indicates improper usage. Since the usage looks OK for the mfsbackup command I suspected something was wrong with the mfsrestore command.

I entered mfsrestore ? to check the proper usage and it does not show a -r option.

Could I have a bad version of Mfstools2floppy?

Any suggestions?

[WK-Michael]

Considering the size of the drives, the "-r 4" is unnecessary, so you can try just omitting that, but I doubt it will change much. It looks correct.

What is the exact failure? Could the original drives be bad?