Corrupt Data on Tivo?

[skorous]

--- In ExtractStream@y..., Mark Jeffcoat <jeffcoat@a...> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 05:06:35PM -0700, Joe Fleck wrote:
> > Since my question below didn't elict much response other than 
a "I have that
> > problem too" from someone, maybe I could rephrase it. How many 
people here
> > have upgraded to a second drive and are NOT having any problems. 
I have to
> > believe that the root of my problem came from adding the second 
drive to the
> > Tivo, and that the problem comes from that somehow. How likely 
would it be
> > for me to yank the 30GB, reformat the 80 and put on the 2.51 
backup on the
> > 80 and see an improvement/fix for what ails me? Maybe an 
informal poll - of
> > what type of tivo + what drive(s) you have + problems or lack of 
them -
> > would be a good idea..
> 
> I've no problems with my second drive. The only consistent
> pattern of failure I've noticed from posts to this list
> is this: Anyone who uses anything besides Tridge's 
> mfs_export to extract streams off the Tivo will have problems.
> Conversely, anyone who's having a problem is not using
> mfs_export.

I was using sendstream with two drives (20G + 30G) up until jdiner 
introduced me to mfs_streams a week ago and I had no problems. Come 
to think of it, I didn't have any problems with ExtractStream either 
(audio sync was another issue...). Now I was doing my extractions to 
an NFS mounted partition rather than using NetCat or TivoApp. Maybe 
that made the difference for me, dunno.

Just thought I'd throw that in.

Skorous