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  • Upgrading a S2 Dual

    I've purchased the drive kit for my S2 Dual Tuner, as well as a large hard drive. I was surprised in the how-to to find :

    "TiVo 80hr TCD649080 Standalone Single 80GB A drive (dual tuner model - only accommodates a single drive)"

    My bracket fits in the TiVo, and looks like I can fit two drives in there just fine. Is there a hardware reason that I can't? I have installed the bracket, fan, etc. and reassembled the TiVo while waiting for my new B Drive, and it all fits together just fine.

    On a second note, I've become confused in the how-to about backing up my original drive. I'd much rather just format the B Drive accordingly and plug it in, using my existing A Drive. Is this a problem?

    Thanks guys.




    By the way, I'm also using the weeknees boot CD, but haven't used Unix in over 10 years. Can someone give me the few lines needed to format a big add-on B Drive appropriately?
    Last edited by Crit; 02-02-2007, 08:40 AM.

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    Right - that must be old info. The dual-tuner bracket we sell does work, obviously, in that model.

    If you just want to bless and add, you can do this:

    Code:
    BlessTiVo /dev/hdc
    Replace the "hdc" with the appropriate position.
    Been here a long time . . .

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    • #3
      Now that I've got all my hardware together, I've booted the PC with the CD. I can't mount my backup drive because it's NTFS, so it mounts read-only. My XP laptop won't format any other way. Is there a unix command that I can use to reformat my backup drive on the fly?

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      • #4
        You'd have to use some partitioning software to get a FAT32 partition on the other drive.
        Been here a long time . . .

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        • #5
          Will do. Thanks for the followups, Michael.

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