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October 29, 2005 10:36 AM

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jaxgent

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I recently purchased a Maxtor 250 gig drive so that I could hack it for my Directv RCA DVR80. My pc's bios can't seem to handle it. It reports it as 251 gig.

While in the baking process with InstantCake it hangs half way through the image. Those of you that have hacked a drive this large, what motherboard manufactuer have you used and the bios manufactuer and version.

I have not seen hardware requirements listed for this task.

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Lou Jacob Avatar
DVRupgrade
October 29, 2005 2:56 PM

That's because most PC's will work fine, even older ones. You'll find a few posts from people wtih AMD K6 systems who have had problems, and a few who've had some IDE issues with a couple of DELL and HP boxes.

Turn off drive detection in your BIOS; InstantCake typically doesn't care what your BIOS thinks as the linux kernel takes care of these things for you...

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

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October 29, 2005 9:30 PM

RE:Hardware

I tried as advised and my image restoration fails at the 751/1453 blocks. I either have a bad hard drive or a corrupted instantCake 6.2 ISO image.

This is a refurbished unit from Maxtor. The Maxblast 4.0 utilities in this case are useless. Can't check for bad sectors or excersize dr. Before I apply for an RMA exchange, any tips?

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Lou Jacob Avatar
DVRupgrade
October 30, 2005 11:41 AM

Please use the tech support area for questions like this...

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

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