Hi (fellow) Dave,Hi Everyone,
Ahh. TiVo-itis. Fast onset too. Know it well. It gets worse. No cure .I didn't know anything about TiVo until I came across the OzTiVo page by accident. That was on Thursday, by Friday I had been emailing with George and now my unit is ordered and should be delivered once the hard drive brackets come into stock .
TiVo's require a Parallel ATA drive. If your external case is connected by USB/Firewire it's most likely to be PATA but if it's a Serial ATA (SATA) drive it won't work. If it's a SCSI case then it won't work in the TiVo.I have a 120 gb Seagate that I use as an external drive for my Windows machine, can I use this drive in my TiVo?
Some more info regarding drives can be found here:
http://minnie.tuhs.org/twiki/bin/vie...WhichTypeOfHDD
Restoring the OzTiVo image will overwrite everything on the drive. There shouldn't be any issue that it's previously been used for Windows (apart from that being an abuse of a disk drive in itself).I have read somewhere about a signature being written to the drive if it is connected to a Windows machine. Will the current image override this?
You could download SeaTools from the Seagate website and run a surface scan on the drive. Recommended because the TiVo doesn't like drive errors and performs erratically if it encounters them. By the way it took 9 hours to scan my 120Gb drive.Is there any thing I can do with the drive before the unit arrives? I know I can load the image onto the drive, but is there anything else I can do?
While the is TiVo on its way, get to know the information on the OzTiVo website (particularly the BeginnersFAQ) so that you can avoid asking a FAQ on the list. Be warned though - this will make the TiVo-itis worse .I can see that this is going to be an interesting project and I hope I can rely on this forum and the mailing list for advise and help during the tricky stages.
Read you then.I'm sure I'll be back
Cheers, Dave.
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