Discuss digest, Vol 1 #193 - 11 msgs

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

I don't have much experience with Tivo. As I mentioned, Partition Magic has 
always worked for me.
When you run fdisk (Linux) as root.
Use p to print the partition table. 
With most Linux systems, I could pretty much help, but I don't know what 
Tivo sets up.
Robert La Ferla wrote:
> Thanks.  I'm really desperate now because I can't watch TV or record
> shows tonite.  ;-)
> 
> I only have one 40GB hard drive (slave) attached to my system via the
> secondary IDE channel.  I can't use the primary channel because the
> connector is blocked by a cable holder (stupid Dell rackmount design.)
> I use a bootable floppy to load Linux.  They call it "TivoMad" because
> in addition to the kernel, it has a bunch of Tivo disk utilities on it.
> The first problem I have is that I'm not sure how to properly partition
> and format the hard drive under DOS.  I tried two different procedures
> that both failed.  The first was to create a primary partition for the
> whole disk and the second attempt was creating a minimal primary
> partition with the remainder of the disk on the extended partition.  I
> then created one logical partition that spanned the entire extended
> partition.  However, when I boot into Linux using the TivoMad floppy, it
> says: "block 0 has signature c033 instead of 1492" followed by "unknown
> partition table"  So, I'm thinking that somehow the disk wasn't
> partitioned or formatted properly.  Under MS-DOS, I am able to copy
> files to the partitions though.  The other idea is that somehow that
> boot floppy kernel doesn't have VFAT support like you are suggesting.
> But the documentation and examples all use /mnt/dos so you would think
> that it would have it.  I'm going to try using my real Linux boot drive
> (SCSI) to see if that works.  I didn't want to connect it because I was
> afraid that I may accidently copy over it but perhaps it can help me
> debug this.  I may also try using the boot CD-ROM but I'll have to
> remove that cable holder to get access to the primary ide channel...
> 
> Frustrated,
> Robert
> 
> Message: 8
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> From: Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
> Subject: Re: HELP: Problems mounting Windows disk under Linux (TIVO)
> Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2002 07:28:09 -0500
> 
> On thing I see wrong here. It appears that both IDE drives are on your
> primary channel. Disk numbering works like:
> hda - primary master
> hdb - primary slave
> hdc - secondary master
> hdd - secondary slave.
> It is better if you have 2 hard drives to put them on different IDE
> channels, but they work fine on the same channel.
> I routinely mount Windows Vfat partitons on my Linux system.
> Another thing, you need to have the DOS FAT and Windows VFAT file
> systems
> built either into your kernel or as modules.
> Robert La Ferla wrote:
> > Help...  I'm upgrading my Tivo (Linux) by adding a second IDE hard
> drive
> > but I have to make a backup of my drive first.  Here's my problem:  I
> > have a new 40GB IDE disk set initially as a "master".  Using a Win98
> > startup floppy, I ran "fdisk" and created a single primary partition.
> I
> > then formatted the C: drive using "format".  I switched the jumper on
> > the new drive to "slave", and added my original Tivo drive as "master"
> 
> > and rebooted using a special Linux boot floppy (TivoMad in case you're
> 
> > interested.)  Here I have to mount the slave drive so I can backup the
> 
> > original drive as a "file" on the new ide disk.  When I type:  "mount
> > /dev/hdd1 /mnt/dos", it gives me a "FAT bread" error.  What do I need
> to
> > do to get this to work?  BTW -- I want to be able to use the ide disk
> in
> > my Windows box after doing this backup so I can't use ext2.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Robert
> >
> > Tivo Upgrade:
> > http://www.newreleasesvideo.com/hinsdale-how-to/
> 
> 

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