[d0e]

screwed up my original replayTV drive and need to re image it, i do not see any option in the patcher so how do you do this

 

[madSkeelz]

On the downloads page at SourceForge for rtvpatch, there is a command-line version of the tool for OSX. Just follow the instructions for a Linux user. There are some differences [namely having to do with how OSX handles/mounts hard drives.] It's been discussed quite a bit. Do some searching at the AVS archive.

http://rtvpatch.sf.net
http://archive.avsforum.com

 

[d0e]

i would follow instructions if i could find some , and the serch did not find anything .

can anyone help

 

[ttubbiola]

A friend sent me this link over the weekend. I have not tried anything with it.

http://www.bentpixel.com/fbm/


As I said, I have not verified if this works or not. If it does, please post your results here,


thanks,

Tom

 

[j.m.]

Quote:

Originally posted by ttubbiola A friend sent me this link over the weekend. I have not tried anything with it. http://www.bentpixel.com/fbm/ As I said, I have not verified if this works or not. If it does, please post your results here, thanks, Tom

This program has nothing to do with the OP's problem, namely re-imaging a ReplayTV drive under Mac OSX. RTVpatch is the only program that will do that.

 

[ttubbiola]

Sorry about that, I hadn't actually read everything on that page yet. I just knew it was an OS X utility for Replay.

 

[FlipFlop]

Something is up with the search. It appears that threads with a final post in 2003 are not currently available or indexed?


I don't recall the exact conditions for running under OS/X, but as I recall:


1) you need to open a shell (command prompt) window

2) you need to be logged in as "root", or have root give some user full permissions on the /dev/ device with the replaytv hard drive connected to it.

3) run "chmod +x rtvpatch_osx" to tag the file as an executable program

4) make sure the disk drive you want to patch is NOT MOUNTED

5) then run "./rtvpatch_osx" and follow the linux instructions.

 

[madSkeelz]

Use


% diskutil list


to get a usable list of attached disks. This will tell you the name of the drive you want to work with. [e.g., /dev/disk2]