March 31, 2005 4:26 PM

sib said:

I purchased the PTVupgrade LBA48 CD v4.01 Enhancements download a couple days ago and tried making a backup and disk to disk copy of my HD10-250 disk to a new one. The backup would not expand properly, and the dd copy took nearly 24 hours and the new disk did not work in the TiVo, even though ls showed that the directories I checked had been copied (the menu appeared to be there, but the picture was skewed probably because of incorrect scan rate).

Anyway, the PC is a Dell P3 700MHz that came with a Promise Technology Ultra ATA/66 board for the hard drive. The linux OS could see that card and the attached drives, but as I said the copies were NG.

So I got a new Promise Technology Ultra ATA/100 card, thinking that would fix things, but the Linux OS can't see that card. The card did install and work properly in W98 on that PC.

Any ideas how I can get Linux to see that card and the drives?

Thanks.

I think there may be an issue with the kernel and the HR10-250, specifically. There will be an update to the 4.01 CD shortly (hopefully within the next few days), and I will PM you with more info and an opportunity to download and try it. BTW, the problem I've observed (and seen reported a few times) is the inability to use mfstools to make a successful backup -- seems to work ok on some PC's and not others. Not sure if this is the same problem you are having or a different one.

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March 31, 2005 4:35 PM

sib said:

Thanks for the quick reply.

Still, since I have this Ultra ATA/100 card I would like to try to use it to speed up the copies at least. You mentioned the Hughs unit specifically, but that wouldn't have anything to do with Linux not recognizing the Ultra ATA/100 card. WIll the new release fix that too?

Right.

Not sure if this will fix the other problem you had. I think the new kernel I compiled did include Promise support, so it might work.

Since the CD didn't hang when making your mfsbackup, its unlikely that this new kernel will make a difference as far as the backup being corrupted. I'd try again with your ATA/66 and mfsbackup. When its complete, do a "sync" or just let the system sit before you shut it down; sometimes there is still information in cache that needs to be flushed to the filesystems...

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