[XCSSA] Got an old Tivo for $5

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Bruce, if you're interested I have the PTVUpgrade CD for series 1
Tivo's.  It will rebuild a stock Tivo filesystem and add cool stuff
like FTP, Telnet and Tivoweb.

On 4/6/07, xcssa-admin@xcssa.org <xcssa-admin@xcssa.org> wrote:
> (sorry to Tweeks about stupidly sending to the admin address)
>
> Yesterday I got a Sony SVR-2000 (30hr, series 1) for five bucks at a
> thrift store. Of course it wouldn't start up. Open it up and mmm,
> Quantum Fireball. First thing I did was look at the chips on the
> drive to make sure they hadn't blown themselves out like Fireballs
> do. Nope, no blown chip. Of course it came with no remote (the
> remotes go for $80 or so on ebay!), but I got a One For All URC-6131n
> remote that supports it at Best Buy for just under $20.
>
> After much work to get things set up, I managed to get an mfsbackup
> of the main partition. Doing a dd copy of the whole drive hung at 21
> gigs, which was probably the reason the thing was dead. Lucky me, at
> least the drive was alive enough to read the important stuff. I also
> checked the clock battery, 3.0 volts is a bit down but not enough to
> worry right now. I'm not amused that you have to remove the
> motherboard to swap the battery because of the way that its holder
> was mounted on the board, facing the side of the case.
>
> And part of that "much work" was trying to unlock two hard drives
> from bad Xbox upgrade attempts. One happened over a year ago, and I
> thought maybe I did something else that fried the drive. Then when I
> got a drive out tonight for the mfsbackup, I decided I'd try it on my
> Xbox first. Boot Xbox with utils CD, lock drive, prepare drive,
> reboot, error 13. Oops, looks like its a bad idea to lock the drive
> if you haven't loaded the dashboard and stuff first--it won't boot
> the CD with the utilities you need to unlock it again! Fortunately
> the utility I locked it with had set the IDE master password to
> "TEAMASSEMBLER" and I was able to get both drives working again.
>
> I hate using a 200GB drive when it'll only work with 128GB, and a
> 7200 RPM instead of a slower (and quieter) 5200 RPM, but that's what
> I've got handy as a new drive. The cheapest I saw at Fry's today was
> a 160/7200 in a USB case for $70. It was a "dead drive" until last
> night anyhow, so "free" is better than $70. And I really don't want
> to put a previously used drive in something like this.
>
>   - Bruce -
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