service unavailable message

Hmmmm... Just as I thought. There must be an update bug somewhere. I'll leave it up to the experts to answer this one if you can hold out for one of them to decide as I would not know what to look for, or if something else can be patched into your current hard disk to make it work without the need to reimage.


Regarding the IR codes I take it your original hard disk is working fine with your STB? If this is the case you can retrieve the current IR code number being used through TiVoWEB. Do the following:

Click on the "more" option
Click on the "MFS" option
Click on the "setup" option
Click on the number next to source (there may be more than one if you have two inputs)

You should see a list of info about that input come up. Note down the IR code number that begins with the line "CableBoxCodeNum = ". It will be a 5 digit number starting with a 3 (all OzTiVo generated IR codes start with a 3)

If you have two sources then note down the other one too. When you go back to do Guided Setup from scratch you can search for these numbers through the list and pick them.

(thanks to Peter who showed me how to do this a while ago :) )

Thanks Darren
I will await further comments and suggestions from the forum before going any further.

Thanks for the IR tip.
Will work through that when I get back to my own drive.

reagrds

donaldovitch.

I don't have any immediate suggestions, it appears re-imaging will fix the issue.

If you are interested in trying to get the old drive going again without re-imaging I'm happy to help.

I have a sneaking suspision that your ISP has fixed the proxy, but with the modifications we have made to your original drive this would stop it from working. So if we reset your dirve back to the original settings it would probably work.

Peter.

Thanks Peter
I if you have the patience, would like to have a go at getting my hard drive back without reimaging.
What should I do?

Cheers
Don M

Run update_oztivo -y

Then show us what you currently have in:
/var/hack/etc/emuProxyZA.conf
/etc/resolv.conf

Peter

Thanks Peter
Ran update_oztivo -y

Contents of emuProxyZA.conf and resolv.cof are attached.

Cheers
Don M

The emuProxyZA.conf is incomplete. The important bits are at the bottom of the file. I suggest trying

Code:

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cat  /var/hack/etc/emuProxyZA.conf

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then copying everything from your terminal window from the the cat command to the next [TiVo [p0] ~]# prompt

Ran cat /var/hack/etc/emuProxyZA.conf
Result attached.
Hope this helps.

The previous result was the full page after opening the directory /var/hack/etc
Then opening emuProxyZA.conf.

Entering the full line /var/hack/etc/emuProxyZA.conf gave a :"permission denied" result.

Thanks Peter

Don M

Sorry, my mistake. We had the end of the file, not the start.
Now it's all there and it looks like a stock emuProxyZA.conf to me.
resolv.conf also looks like the standard copy.

Just to be clear, are these files from your original drive, or the one posted by Darren?

Good afternoon
The files I sent today are from my own 320Gb hard drive.
I have
1. removed Darren's 20 Gb drive
2. reattached my 320 Gb drive
3. run update_oztivo -y
4. Opened and posted the emuProxyZA.conf and resolv.conf files you have.

Cheers
Don M