Sean, Thanks for all of your help. I have completed the hack and hd upgrade. I am able to telnet and ftp into the machine. Now to reconnect it to the satelite...
enable dma on your disks by doing the following: hdparm -d1 /dev/hdX (where X is replaced by the device letter for your setup e.g. a, b, c, d, etc.) The backup...
Ok, the newly hacked HDTIVO has been running for a few fours and the networking seems to be working fine. The system got the data needed from the satelite and...
Does the need to remove encryption apply only to the HD Tivo? I just read the instructions at this site http://www.weethet.nl/english/tivo_extract_videos.php ...
That link is to a guide that uses Sleeper's tivoscripts program to hack a series 2 DirecTivo. The decryption hack is performed as part of the automated hacks...
What kind of drives have been used successfully in the HR10-250? Vincent ... From: short kidd To: hdtivo@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2005 1:44...
Thank you very much for your thorough repply to my questions. I will follow your advice and search for the information on the DDB forums. ... monte ... ...
I don't know about that hanging during playback problem... I personally haven't experienced that. Re: swap space; increasing swap space isn't necessarily going...
I tried to enable the dialing prefix of ,#401 to get my hr10-250 to update via the network connection and it still tried to use the modem. Is this supposed to...
... It worked for me, but I had to put the USB and network drivers in rc.net instead of rc.sysinit.author My rc.net: #!/bin/bash #load usb and ethernet modules...
It works. In the dealdatabase thread, bigrig said he left out the "-i eth0" option thinkning that would default, but it wasn't working for him. I did use the...
Any advantages to making a daily call via the internet vs. just using the fakecall script? i've never actually made a call with my hr10-250 and have always...
I'll try to make this short and to the point... Bought a 400GB seagate HDD to replace the WD 250GB HDD in the HR10. Tried to back up the TiVo (WD) drive using...
ugh, let me guess...I need -r 4 added into the command line so that it's: mfsbackup -Tao - /dev/hdd | mfsrestore -s 400 -r 4 -xzpi - /dev/hda sorry but I'm...
Before I do the backup and restore, I always use the following command to enable DMA for the drives as this will speed up the process significantly. hdparm -d1...
Sorry, I did have DMA enabled. Forgot to mention that. Here is the command line from the most recent attempt: mfsbackup -Tao - /dev/hdd | mfsrestore -s 400 -r...
If you're restoring to a drive larger than 250 GB, you definitely need the "-r 4" option. I think the command you listed below should work. If it doesn't,...
I hope this isn't against the rules - if it is, mods, feel free to delete... I archive season sets of shows and was hoping to find a few others that did this...
I'm pretty sure the drive came formatted with NTFS. It has a disk utility that will make FAT32 partitions but none over 32GB. It looks like this would work...
... Are you talking about the new 400 GB you are going to use as your new TiVo disk? When you buy a new hard drive from the store, it has not been partitioned...
... new TiVo disk? yes, this is the only thing that I can figure. I can't seem to get my head around why else this thing will not boot up when I put the new ...
... You don't need or want to create any partitions on the new 400 GB drive. That will be done for you when you dd or mfsrestore. The TiVo doesn't use FAT32...
OK, I finally got busy on this project, now I need some help. At this point I have purchased 2 Seagate HD's, a 300g, and a 200g. I successfully copied my old...
Did you use "bootpage -P" to determine that your active kernel partition is inded partition 3? Just because you have version F doesn't mean that partition 3...
Don't mean to spam, but I figured it would be best to create a new group for swapping ty files and other episodes... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TiVoSwap/ If...
I don't mean to rain on your parade but I want to caution you. I think you are setting yourself up for some trouble. What you are doing is not legal and you...
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