Bios say Quantum Fireball lct10 30GB is 9MB. 1

[yuxej]

I have a Tivo unit. It's broken, so I'm using the Quantum Fireball lct10 30GB hard drive as a backup drive in my Compaq P166. I unplugged all my ide connection and use just the 30GB HD only (just to be safe). Here's the problem. The bios recognized it as a 9MB (9 megabites). Use win98 fdisk to delete the partition and re-partitioned it. Nothing changed. Use linux fdisk and still nothing. Does Tivo have a proctection thing on it or can all hardrive be partition to what it's suppose to be?

 

[gargouille]

Tivo using the hard drive unfortunately doesn't bring with it the flexibility you'd have with a PC...ran across this link with some in-depth answers...hopefully for your situation, too:

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

 

[yuxej]

This is far the best in details about Tivo and it's upgrade. Even though 90% doesn't pertain to what I'm trying to do, it did show me how to unlock the drive. Hopefully this will help get back the 30GB I needed for my PC.

Thanks.

 

[GaryMckie]

Hi, most Socket 7 board's don't support past 8gig on default, if you post your motherboard id / number hopefully there will be a BIOS flash you can use so that the hard drive is fully recognised.

This is what I believe to be your problem.

 

[mudskipper]

Good call, gargouille! Love the link too...much good info there! Mudskipper
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[gargouille]

jewberrywelcome!

 

[yuxej]

The site about the unlock thingy did work and I got my 30GB to detect correctly. And about the bios, I did that too but that wasn't the problem. Thanks anyway. Now I'm happy. The only thing is that I blanked out the hard drive so now I can't get Tivo's programs back if ever needed. Next step is to find a site or place to get the programs or software back. I have Redhat 6.1 and Mandrake 6.1. I'm not sure if these were the same OS Tivo was on. Anyway, hope someone could help out this one.

Yuxej

 

[gargouille]

Man you give up easy, yuxej! LOL
Went back to the link I gave you to explore some nooks and crannies and found another link YOU need to explore...it is Linux...but I haven't read very far...

http://makeashorterlink.com/?A2D265182

Hope you'll find what you need here.