SATA HDD on S1 Tivo

**s2156593** · 26-04-2009, 09:05 PM

Hello,

I'm wondering if anyone has tried using a SATA HDD, with a SATA -> IDE adapter, on Series 1 Tivo? As you all aware it's getting difficult to get brand new decent size IDE HDD now...

**Skolink** · 27-04-2009, 06:30 AM

Yes, well aware

http://forums.oztivo.net/showthread.php?t=2046

People on the mailing list recently suggested:

Western digital green power 24/7 drives from MSY

Seagate option listed here, including the SV35 AV drives.
http://www.staticice.com.au/cgi-bin/...gb+pata&spos=3
http://www.staticice.com.au/cgi-bin/...b+-sata&spos=1

**Skolink** · 06-10-2009, 06:44 AM

I have successfully used a SATA-IDE adaptor which has a SunPlus SATALink SPIF223A-H022 chipset, in conjunction with a Samsung HD502IJ 500GB drive.

[IMG]Sunplus 223A adaptor.JPG[/IMG]

In order to image the drive the adaptor had to be plugged into the Secondary IDE controller on my PC (and the CDROM on Primary) otherwise it would not boot. BIOS reported the drive as 137Gb but the ozTiVo boot disk reconised it as 500Gb.

**petestrash** · 06-10-2009, 09:24 PM

Skolink, you may want to be clear in your previous posts.

99.9% of IDE-SATA convertors on the market do not work with TiVo.

This is one of the rare .1% that seem to.

Peter.

**Lurker** · 08-10-2009, 06:51 PM

Would be interesting to know where you sourced it - could find no reference to a Sunplus adapter with GoogleFu

**Skolink** · 08-10-2009, 07:35 PM

I just bought 5 of these, so when they arrive I'll let you know if they work.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=350255745731
Pretty pricy at 99c each

**petestrash** · 08-10-2009, 07:57 PM

There seems to be small differences between your board and the eBay one. Is this the same seller you bought the first board from?

Peter.

**Skolink** · 08-10-2009, 08:14 PM

No I have no idea who I bought the first one off. It could have been 2 years ago, and I only just tried it a week ago.
Yes I noticed that Q1 is not fitted on the photo of the latest ones. It looks similar enough that I decided to risk a few $.

**petestrash** · 08-10-2009, 08:17 PM

The board model number appears to be the same, just a few slight differences in population.

When did you order these?

Peter.

**Lurker** · 08-10-2009, 08:37 PM

US99c - the only ones I could find from Dynamix were above $30 - wow

Let us know if they work and what the postage was in $NZ as I bet there might be a few people interested.