Riss said:

Hello PTVupgrade!
I just installed a new cachecard/Adrive upgrade in my Series1 SA because my original hard drive began failing.

Things went fairly well, and I had my tivo back online within 30 minutes of opening the box.

A couple of things:
1) It took me a while to get the ethernet section of the cachecard online. this turned out to be the ethernet jumper cable included in the PTV kit (purchased through 9thtee) was a CROSSOVER cable, not a straight through. Luckly, I had a bunch of ethernet cables and using a straight through got the ehthenet link lights on.
2) Where can I find better documentation on the cachecard? IE: Indicator lights. (Power, Ether, Cache im assuming) Also how to tell if the cache is actually working.

3) In telnetting to the Tivo and poking around the bash shell, I tried to use the unix LESS command to list out various files, it part of the PTVupgrades/bin directory. It appears to be missing the termcap library on the harddrive as it generates this error:

bash-2.02# less
less: error in loading shared libraries
libtermcap.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Got a copy of the library hanging around ? :)

4) Lastly, a slight oddity: every now and then the tivo will go into PAUSE all by itself. Once in a while it will drop out of pause as well. But about 4 times in the last 24 hours the tivo just enters PAUSE mode, and no, its not the cat laying on the remote. :) Any ideas?

Other then that the upgrade is great! I originally had this 14 hours Series 1 SA that i upgrades with a second disk a few years back. Now both trives have been replaced with the one big one. Thanks!
-Riss

For answers to commonly asked questions, please refer to the
InstantCake Instructions and Release Notes,
Official InstantCake Discussion Thread, and the
Official PTVnet Discussion Thread

Riss said:

3> I have poked around the net, but have not yet found a copy of libtermcap.so.2 that is the right build for tivo's linux. If you come up with one first, please post it. Thanks.

4> No, had nothing to do with the remote, the remote was not in use. The tivo would drop in to or out of pause at randome times all by itself. However, I have now disabeled TivoWeb (renamed tivoweb_on in /) and the random pause/unpause has stopped. Ill explore this more later when I have time.
Thanks!
-Riss

For answers to commonly asked questions, please refer to the
InstantCake Instructions and Release Notes,
Official InstantCake Discussion Thread, and the
Official PTVnet Discussion Thread

Hi, I've also got the same issue trying to use the less command. Where can I find the libtermcap to upload to the Tivo ? Thanks, Bill