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May 2, 2006 10:04 PM

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bkphillips

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I was under the impression that if I used both of these togather that it would handle the size of a 250 gig drive. The tivo fired up without issue, but claimed I only has 35 hours to work with. I pulled the drive back out and went back to my orig drive, since I'm in a hold pattern waiting for my USB adapter. Did I overlook something on the setup - or do I need to to the lda trick ??
One other thing I noticed was my local channels were all spanish speaking and some channels that I normally have programming for were saying that I needed to order them??? will this correct itself after a couple days ((hopefully))

thanks in advance.

Hughes SD-DVR40 (6.2 hinsdale hack'd) <adding: PTVnet and 250gig>

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May 3, 2006 12:28 AM

From the product description:

DirecTV HR10-250 HDTV TiVo (35-hours)
35-hours of high-definition recording, 225-hours of standard-definition recording.


In other words, your TiVo is showing correct information for a 250GB drive. For every hour of HD recording space not used, you have over six hours of SD recording space to use.

As for your other issue, call DirecTV and have them reset your channels; it should only take a minute or so.

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HR10-250, Samsung SIR-S4120R, SIR-S4080R, 2 Philips DSR704s (one connected to a Slingbox A/V). One box used the "Zipper"; rest used PTVnet to enable networking features.

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May 3, 2006 11:11 AM

It's not a high def unit - why would it indicate a high def unit of measure..?

The last drive hacked via hinsdale indicated 106 hours at variable... I would have to believe there is a problem here.

Hughes SD-DVR40 (6.2 hinsdale hack'd) <adding: PTVnet and 250gig>

Yog-Sothoth Avatar
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May 3, 2006 7:14 PM

Sorry, I read "250" last night and had it in my head that you had an HR10-250 with a 250GB drive in it (it was almost midnight for me).

Regardless, 6.2 supports LBA48, so you should be seeing the full capacity of your drive. With a 250GB drive, you should have the capacity for over 200 hours of recording time, depending on the programming.

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HR10-250, Samsung SIR-S4120R, SIR-S4080R, 2 Philips DSR704s (one connected to a Slingbox A/V). One box used the "Zipper"; rest used PTVnet to enable networking features.

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May 4, 2006 1:42 PM

I dug up my orig backup hardrive, my mfstools floppy and the CD w/ hinsdale on it. What a find! (My computer room is a mad mess.) Since I had the goofy spanish channel thing going and the drive size goofed on my first attempt using the PTV cd's, I was thinking of redoing those hinsdale steps. This would backup my settings and give me a backup to fall back on. Right?

I'm reconsidering keeping the 106 hour capacity or so that I currently have, and scratch the 250gig drive altogather. If the backup of my current drive (106hr) - and use the PTVnet hack cd to attempt further upgrades. If there is an issue - that backup will remove the adds and put me back to square one of a 106 hr drive?

I have read alot as of late, and it seems larger size hack drives run into funny issues when re-hacking.

Hughes SD-DVR40 (6.2 hinsdale hack'd) <adding: PTVnet and 250gig>

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