[SOLVED] parted magic / hard drive question

[Rosco]

I have a client. He is a high dive couch. He sells tivos with footage to other dive couches. I copy the tivo hard drive with parted magic ddrescue. I have done 20 or 30 of these. All went fine. Now i have just gotten a new batch of 3 hard drives. (3x)30GB Quantum fireball IDE. The problem is it is only reconized as 10MB in part magic and the bios. Jumpers the same as all the others. I have it hooked up with a pci IDE/sata board. If it was only one i would think it is dead but 3 the exact same problem. Any suggestions on what it could be. Also i have tryied it with the latest parted magic and an older version.

 

[Porthos]

high dive couch

Coach ??

 

[Rosco]

yea coach.... yea sorry

 

[Markverhyden]

Have a look at this.

http://www.newreleasesvideo.com/hinsdale-how-to/index9.html

Additional possibly required utilities:


Locked drives occur only with hard drives previously installed in older Series 1 standalone TiVos. If you run into a locked drive (total size reports as 9-10MB) during this upgrade process then use the qunlock utility to unlock. If required, first download the qunlock (7k) program. This file should then be copied to a dos boot floppy. To create a dos boot disk, place a blank disk in your floppy then exit windows to an msdos prompt and type "sys a:" at the c:\ prompt. Windows ME users should go to Control Panel-->add/remove programs-->Startup Disk to create the dos boot disk (Windows 2000/NT/XP users should see note at end of document). Return to Windows and then copy the qunlock program to your new dos boot floppy (label qunlock boot disk).


If you are going to be restoring a backup image running TiVo software version 2.0 or below (does not apply to 2.0.1 or above) to a non-Quantum A drive you will also need to download TiVoMad v3.2 (1.4MB - requires a single floppy disk)(file is no longer hosted at the original source. Closest file is here.). Unzip this file to it's own folder and place a blank formatted disk in your floppy drive. Double click to execute the makedisk.bat file and the batch file will automatically create a TiVoMad boot floppy for you (label TiVoMad).

 

[HCHTech]

Coach ??

Yeah - I was picturing furniture up on the diving platform. Tee Hee.

 

[Rosco]

Have a look at this.

http://www.newreleasesvideo.com/hinsdale-how-to/index9.html

I think this is exactly what is happening. It must be locked. Well know to do figure out how to unlock a tivo hard drive.

 

[Altster]

Yeah - I was picturing furniture up on the diving platform. Tee Hee.

Just imagine how BIG that platform would need to be. LOL

 

[Rosco]

The solution is i used mfslive to unlock the drive and used parted magic as normal. thanks to mark for the point in the right direction.