There is a new HD news website called DailyHD.com The content is updated daily, hence the name. Its worth checking out if you are an HD enthusist....
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soniatesani
Jun 10, 2006 2:59 pm
I took advantage of Fry's Electronics weekend sale on the Mastor 500-GB drive yesterday for $190. I am wondering now what swap-partition size this drive needs...
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captain_video2
Jun 12, 2006 12:56 am
I believe the basic rule of thumb is to set up 1MB of swap file for each GB of drive capacity. In your case you'd need a 500MB swap file. Use the -s switch...
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Joe Wixted
joewixted
Jun 12, 2006 4:53 pm
Note: forwarded message attached. Note: forwarded message attached. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo!...
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soniatesani
Jun 15, 2006 4:00 pm
Thank you, Captain, for your very instructive repply. I got everything ready to setup the 500-GB Maxtor drive, but, unfortunately, discovered that it was a...
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Anderson, Glen
glenandsonja91
Jun 19, 2006 1:52 pm
Why not use an ide/sata conversion connector? I've seen them on ebay for as low as 10$ including shipping. ________________________________ From:...
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soniatesani
Jun 19, 2006 4:50 pm
I had no idea that the PATA-SATA adapters had come down so much in price. In a www.cyberguys.com catalog, they cost about $59! I wonder whether the 10-250...
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Anderson, Glen
glenandsonja91
Jun 19, 2006 7:20 pm
There's a guy over on dealdatabase using one to connect an external array box, see links below. The last update I saw he was still working through the MFS...
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soniatesani
Jun 21, 2006 10:32 pm
I got a PATA-SATA adapter from www.newegg.com for $10 plus tax and shipping (total of $15.72) and it was just delivered to me. Now another question comes to...
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Christopher D. Heer
chris_heer
Jun 22, 2006 2:52 am
You should just connect it as PATA for simplicity's sake, I would think. --chris...
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Highpurity
high_purity
Jun 22, 2006 6:10 am
I just now can afford to purchase a HD recorder so I've ordered DTV HR10-250 which should be here this week. I'd like to add a second HDD naturally..what...
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Christopher D. Heer
chris_heer
Jun 22, 2006 10:45 am
Personally I would advise against a second drive. The HR10-250 runs rather warm as it is without a second little oven spinning away inside. Plus, in a ...
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captain_video2
Jun 22, 2006 12:31 pm
Get the enhanced boot CD from ptvupgrade. It costs $5 but it contains the killhdinitrd'd kernels required if you ever decide to hack the HDTivo. The Tivo...
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captain_video2
Jun 22, 2006 12:52 pm
I run dual drives in all of my DTivos (both standard def and HD models) and never had a problem with heat in all the years I've been using them (six years and...
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Jon D. Slater
uguku61
Jun 22, 2006 1:16 pm
I've used the bracket from weaknees.com and it comes with a second cooling fan. My HR10-250 runs cooler with two drives than it did with one. Jon _____ From:...
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Christopher D. Heer
chris_heer
Jun 22, 2006 1:47 pm
From: captain_video2 ... Not always an option, though...at least not for us married types. My HR10-250 sites in an a/v cabinet, along with an SD-DVR80, my...
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glenandsonja91
Jun 22, 2006 8:23 pm
I just completed a backup from my original IDE (PATA) drive our of my HR10-250 to a SATA drive. The mfsrestore command was the same as what the guides say to...
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bmojica1
Jun 22, 2006 10:29 pm
Hi. Sorry for the delay in a follow post, but I was on vacation in FL for a while and am just getting back into the swing of doing this. Okay. The HR10-250...
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captain_video2
Jun 23, 2006 10:44 am
I'm not sure if this applies to saving HDTivo files to DVHS but it was necessary to save HD files as .ts streams for further processing to DVD. When you save...
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soniatesani
Jun 23, 2006 2:05 pm
Thanks, Chris. I think that the adapter I got is not what I thought I was going to get: it does not work as an interface between a SATA drive and the PATA...
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Highpurity
high_purity
Jun 23, 2006 2:40 pm
Thanks all for the very helpful suggestions....
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bmojica1
Jun 23, 2006 5:22 pm
Hi captain_video2. Thanks for the suggestion. I'll update after I give it a try. Thanks again. Ben ... was ... click ... the ... Mbps ... unless ... player ......
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bmojica1
Jun 25, 2006 7:07 pm
Hi. Here is where I am so far. So I change the bit rate to 15 Mbps in VideoRedo as suggested by captain_video2. But still no luck getting the .ts stream on...
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bmojica1
Jun 27, 2006 2:27 pm
Ok. So over the weekend I did have success with the OTA content I extracted from my HDTivo to my Panasonic DVHS. I converted it with VideoRedo at bitrate of...
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captain_video2
Jun 27, 2006 10:55 pm
Glad to hear you're making progress. I see you've discovered that OTA and DTV HD recordings on a HDTivo are not exactly the same. This is a dilemma jdiner...
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Christopher D. Heer
chris_heer
Jun 28, 2006 2:08 am
Agreed -- OTA HD is a whole different kettle o' fish from the stuff received by the birds. (Different rez, different bit rates, etc...not to mention all of...
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bmojica1
Jun 28, 2006 2:53 am
Thanks guys. If I don't resolve this issue soon, I may just bite the bullet and get one of those AVeL Linkplayer2. It cost less than a new DVHS or a dedicated...
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Henry A Harper III
h_a_h_3
Jun 28, 2006 5:21 am
I am still very happy with my LinkPlayer2, these days I am using it mostly as an upconvert-over-component DVD player (newer firmware disallows this feature,...
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bmojica1
Jun 29, 2006 2:46 pm
Hi Henry. Thanks for the input. What version of the firmware for the LinkPlayer2 are you using? I may need to check this out before buying. By the way, its...
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Henry A Harper III
h_a_h_3
Jun 29, 2006 8:13 pm
My firmware version (at the bottom of the first setup manu screen says it's 11-36-051215-02-IOD-234-000 - I think the 051215 part probably means Dec 15 2005....
