Ouch! Hope you get some good suggestions. I just finished applying RTVPatch 2.2.4 to upgrade a 5040 with a Maxtor 120. I did notice that the Maxtor Fireball 3 40-gigabyte drive that I took out of the unit was set for Cable Select but I installed the Maxtor DiamondMax 9 Plus 120-gigabyte drive as master. That worked. If you suspect that your 40-gig drive is corrupted, you may be able to get an image via ftp from Mikeyboy (search this forum on his name and you may find the URL). That _may_ help you get back to a state of grace. It is pretty hard to get the ribbon cables on wrong because of the "key" that forces you to smash one of the pins if you've got it on backwards. Are you really sure you've got the 200-gig drive set as master. I found that the orientations of the pin diagrams on the two Maxtor drives was 180 degrees off from each other.
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Problem upgrading hard drive in 5040
I did a two-drive upgrade to a replay 2000 a few years ago, so felt pretty confident about upgrading my new 5040 to a large single drive. All that cockiness has now been replaced by nausea. Help!
What's happening now is that whether I have my new drive or original drive hooked up to the Replay, I get the startup screens telling me to wait and then it reboots. Over and over and over again.
In WinXP, I used RTVPatch2.1.3beta.exe to copy the partitions for a single drive upgrade. Of course, I followed each step except the one where I back up the source drive, but I didn't think that would matter. (Smart, aren't I?) My new drive is a 200GB Maxtor. When the drives were in the computer, I changed the jumpers on the original to be master and the new drive to slave. Back in the ReplayTV, I've read that others have had success with the Cable Select jumper setting, which I think is how the original drive was configured. I've tried both settings on both drives.
Where did I go wrong? Did I really screw it up or is it something silly like I didn't put the cover back on correctly? I detached the ribbon cable from the motherboard and put it back on--maybe I put it back on wrong? How could the original drive have gotten messed up?
Thanks for any help.
What's happening now is that whether I have my new drive or original drive hooked up to the Replay, I get the startup screens telling me to wait and then it reboots. Over and over and over again.
In WinXP, I used RTVPatch2.1.3beta.exe to copy the partitions for a single drive upgrade. Of course, I followed each step except the one where I back up the source drive, but I didn't think that would matter. (Smart, aren't I?) My new drive is a 200GB Maxtor. When the drives were in the computer, I changed the jumpers on the original to be master and the new drive to slave. Back in the ReplayTV, I've read that others have had success with the Cable Select jumper setting, which I think is how the original drive was configured. I've tried both settings on both drives.
Where did I go wrong? Did I really screw it up or is it something silly like I didn't put the cover back on correctly? I detached the ribbon cable from the motherboard and put it back on--maybe I put it back on wrong? How could the original drive have gotten messed up?
Thanks for any help.
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Thanks. I'm pretty sure that I've tried the jumpers in every possible configuration. I didn't think it was the ribbon cable, but I'm open to the possibility that I got anything wrong. I'll try the jumpers again when I get home. Is the format of the 5000 drives basically the same as the 4000?
Thanks for pointing me to the disk images. And a BIG thanks to Mikeyboy for thinking ahead. Something's got to help: this isn't rocket science. How hard can it be? (As I pound my head against the wall.)
Thanks for pointing me to the disk images. And a BIG thanks to Mikeyboy for thinking ahead. Something's got to help: this isn't rocket science. How hard can it be? (As I pound my head against the wall.)
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If you use the 5000 disk image let us know how it worked out.
| Originally posted by walrus Thanks. I'm pretty sure that I've tried the jumpers in every possible configuration. I didn't think it was the ribbon cable, but I'm open to the possibility that I got anything wrong. I'll try the jumpers again when I get home. Is the format of the 5000 drives basically the same as the 4000? Thanks for pointing me to the disk images. And a BIG thanks to Mikeyboy for thinking ahead. Something's got to help: this isn't rocket science. How hard can it be? (As I pound my head against the wall.) |
Sure will. BTW, the disk image should work on any drive right? I'd rather test it out first on the 200MB, rather than the original. I don't know much about the replay file system. Gives me something to read up on.
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yes it should. There were reports IBM drives wouldn't work. Maxtor and WD should work fine.
If you have a problem with an activation message, try to do a net connect. It should be gone after that.
| Originally posted by walrus Sure will. BTW, the disk image should work on any drive right? I'd rather test it out first on the 200MB, rather than the original. I don't know much about the replay file system. Gives me something to read up on. |
If you have a problem with an activation message, try to do a net connect. It should be gone after that.
Wahoo! The image worked like a charm. The jumper is still set to Master. Thanks for all the help.
I'm not trying to be a smart ass here, and I'm very glad that the 5000 image worked for you... but could someone please tell me why people seem enjoy using windows to patch the Replays?
I for one don't even want to think of damaging my main os. So, atleast to me, it seems so much simpler and safer to remove all OS HDs, put in the original Replay HD as master and the new bigger one as master on the 2ndary IDE interface (or as slave on the main bus) and then boot from the linux floppy.
Attention everyone... if you can open your computer up and swap jumpers you can run the "dos like" linux command line.
For those of you using images that you happened to download to a windows box, I think (I'm not certain) that you can mount NTFS file systems from the linux floppy. (I'm certain Linux can, as my FreeBSD boxes can... I'm just not certain if that functionality is included on the floppy.)
As for why the original copy didn't work... wasn't there a comment somewhere that the mpeg partition needed to be cleared/reset in order for these newer OS patches to work?
Ghoul
I for one don't even want to think of damaging my main os. So, atleast to me, it seems so much simpler and safer to remove all OS HDs, put in the original Replay HD as master and the new bigger one as master on the 2ndary IDE interface (or as slave on the main bus) and then boot from the linux floppy.
Attention everyone... if you can open your computer up and swap jumpers you can run the "dos like" linux command line.
For those of you using images that you happened to download to a windows box, I think (I'm not certain) that you can mount NTFS file systems from the linux floppy. (I'm certain Linux can, as my FreeBSD boxes can... I'm just not certain if that functionality is included on the floppy.)
As for why the original copy didn't work... wasn't there a comment somewhere that the mpeg partition needed to be cleared/reset in order for these newer OS patches to work?
Ghoul
I want to upgrade my 5040 to 200gb, does it means I only copy the "reply 5000 recorder image" from the FTP site then copy it to the new 200gb drive and it will work?? am i right??
please advise, thanks much
please advise, thanks much
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No, you can copy the system partition from the old driveand it will save you effort as your setup information is already in there. walrus may have messed up his original system partition. Using a downloaded image gave him a good system partition to upgrade from.
| Originally posted by super80 I want to upgrade my 5040 to 200gb, does it means I only copy the "reply 5000 recorder image" from the FTP site then copy it to the new 200gb drive and it will work?? am i right?? please advise, thanks much |
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