AltEPG

Well, I had the green screen/reboot cycle last night - thankfully in the last minute of a show just before heading to bed.

I've pulled the disc and run diags on it and it's FUBAR'ed. I can't even use it as a source disc for mfsbackup. Annoying, but it's given me the opportunity to pull the AltEPG ISO and get up to date with new toys like mfsftp.

Question is, which disc to buy as my replacement (I always keep a spare on hand, so when the disc dies, I'm not without Tivo for long). I've been using Samsung Spinpoint drives. The one that has just failed was a warranty replacement for another that failed, but as far as I can tell, it was 5 years ago now, so I'm out of warranty and need to buy another. My usual favourite retailers only seem to have Western Digital IDE drives and I've previously read bad reports about using them in a tivo. I can't see IDE drives from any other manufacturers though.

What are people doing? Anyone tried one of those IDE/SATA converters?

Recent WD IDE drives won't work in a tivo due to a firmware change.

We're all using SATA drives with convertors these days as far as new drives go.

Basically only the marvel chipset IDE-SATA convertors work:

Startech IDE2SAT
Lycom ST-106-2

I've got a Startech from amazon at £15
Works a treat.
My hard disk is a Hitachi Deskstar 500Gb

Cheers fellas, I'll look at getting one of those.

I use one of these without any problems: 1TB Samsung HD103SJ Spinpoint F3 (currently just under £40 at scan.co.uk)

But be prepared for a VERY long recordings listing !

Vassilis

Well, I've been using a 120GB disc in mode 0 for a few years now and never filled that up. I can't see me going much bigger than that until they stop selling "small" sizes.

swuk wrote:Well, I've been using a 120GB disc in mode 0 for a few years now and never filled that up.

Easily done!
1. Turn on Suggestions, and/or
2. Set a Wishlist for "How It's Made"