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  • WK-Michael
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    Excellent! Glad to hear it worked, and that the noise (or silence) is what you were expecting. These drives really are night and day from the desktop models.

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  • davidwsica
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    Success!

    Originally posted by WK-Michael View Post
    I hope so too - but I'm a little concerned that the compatibility issues aren't so much in the hardware as in the software. I'd really like TiVoToGo for my Mac . . .
    Same here, I'm working on a MacBook myself here.

    Anyway, back on topic....the 'dd' command just finished (took about 5 hours) and I put the new drive in the S3 and .... it works! I have all my programming transferred over and everything appears to be functioning...AND so far it seems considerably quieter than the 7200.10 750GB drive I had in before.

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  • WK-Michael
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    I hope so too - but I'm a little concerned that the compatibility issues aren't so much in the hardware as in the software. I'd really like TiVoToGo for my Mac . . .

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  • gostan
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    Originally posted by WK-Michael View Post
    I'm a big Mac user myself (on my MacBook Pro now). There's not a lot for Macs in the TiVo world, unfortunately, even though there seems to be a big correlation in the user-base.

    Anyway, if you want us to, we can figure out getting your recordings transfered, but you'd have to send us both drives, so it may not make sense.
    Thanks for the offer. But, I just got back to the office and the new HD is already here so that really makes no sense. And, we will just do some heavy watching tonight and tomorrow and I will do the upgrade on Sunday. That is really the hard part as I would simply like to open up the S3 tonight. Patience will win out.

    With the new intel chips on the Mac and BootCamp and Parallels, there should be a lot more Macs in the Tivo world of the future.

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  • WK-JSP
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    smartctl -i /dev/sdX will show you the serial number. It may also be printed on the drive. If not, you can hook up one drive at a time and check each for their serial number. The serial number is a good unique identifier that should distinguish different drives, even if they are otherwise identical.

    The new weaknees_sata.iso boot has smartctl. It also supports hotplug if your sata controller supports it, so you can plug and unplug the drives without rebooting. You do need to be careful to check the drive letter after hotplug, since it may change if you unplug it then plug it back in.

    There's a little shell script on the bootcd, listdrives that will list all the drives attached and display their serial number and smart status ("health").
    Last edited by WK-JSP; 11-17-2006, 04:15 PM.

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  • WK-Michael
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    The hdparms should also have shown a firmware version, which might have helped differentiate. But since you bought a prepped drive, worst case, you are just back in Guided Setup.

    Tell us how it goes!

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  • davidwsica
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    Well the 'dd' is on it's way. I THINK I got the source and destination correct but since they're both 750GB drives it was a little tricky. I'm hoping my assumption regarding how linux maps sda/sdb to the first/second SATA controller cables is correct. Crossing my fingers. When I upgraded the stock 250 drive with this 750 I also needed to run mfstools but since the drives are the same size I'm assuming also that I don't need to run this in this scenario.

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  • WK-Michael
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    Try getting the size with:

    Code:
    hdparm -I /dev/sda
    changing the "sda" as necessary.
    Last edited by WK-Michael; 11-17-2006, 04:10 PM.

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  • davidwsica
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    Originally posted by WK-Michael View Post
    Sounds good. You're doing a Linux DD? Or a "Tao"?
    I just got the drive. I plan to do Linux DD though I'm a little concerned when I hook up both drives how I will be able to tell in Linux which is the new one and which is the old one. Any ideas?

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  • WK-Michael
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    I'm a big Mac user myself (on my MacBook Pro now). There's not a lot for Macs in the TiVo world, unfortunately, even though there seems to be a big correlation in the user-base.

    Anyway, if you want us to, we can figure out getting your recordings transfered, but you'd have to send us both drives, so it may not make sense.

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  • gostan
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    Unfortunately, the recordings transfer is a bit out of my league. I do not even have a windows desktop computer. Just an Apple Powerbook and and IMac.

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  • WK-Michael
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    Sounds good. You're doing a Linux DD? Or a "Tao"?

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  • davidwsica
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    Originally posted by gostan View Post
    Hopefully, UPS will be delivering mine today.

    Of course, before installing it, my wife and I will need to undertake a little mini-marathon to view some of the recordings that we must see that are located on the current stock drive.
    Mine is out for delivery. I'll be transferring over my recordings to the new drive after it arrives later today.

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  • gostan
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    Hopefully, UPS will be delivering mine today.

    Of course, before installing it, my wife and I will need to undertake a little mini-marathon to view some of the recordings that we must see that are located on the current stock drive.

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  • WK-Michael
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    Just arrived! We'll change the site once we finish getting the orders out.

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