[ExtractStream] Extraction from a "netless " Sony DirecTiVo SAT60

[Roger Merchberger]

--- redmr2 <redmr2@h...> wrote:
> This is somewhat of a newbie question, but I can't seem to find a 
> good answer anywhere else .. even after looking throught the
> archives.
> 
> I have a Sony SAT60 ... 2.5.1, 40gb single virgin system. I really
> don't want to jump into the cost of a TivoNet board yet .. which 
> looks to be a royal PITA for the DirecTivo's. I have successfully 
> removed the drive and poked around the root and var partitions
> under 
> Mandrake 8.2 and managed to get mfstools to give me a listing of
> the 
> MFS dirs .. and the all important backup .. just in case
> (compressed 
> 200mb!)

This was just posted a few days ago to the list: it's a different
type of TivoNet board which doesn't require a separate ISA ethernet
card. You just plug it onto the "PCI-like" port, and plug in an
ethernet cable... you're done. No extenders or anything for the
directivos... (and a little cheaper than the TivoNet, too, IIRC)
Check here:

http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=42750

> I recompiled a static extractstream-0.2 to run under the Kaz Linux 
> tools cd kernel .. and moded it recognize hdb10 instead of hda10. 
> Well, it seems to try to work, but it outputs a "sector signature 
> failed" and a sector dump. I'm assuming it's because of the es 
> program reading raw Motorola formatted data into Intel backwards
> byte 
> integers thus screwing up all math calcs.

Hoo-doogie - you're way ahead of me then... I've just started into
C/C++ programming (again... long story) and tried to get the Tivo
bintools to compile under Cygwin for Win2K... no dice. :-(

I'll give it a go on my wife's computer next (it's *only* linux)...
there's always telnet. ;-)

> Am I nuts?

Aren't we all??? :-)

Roger "Merch" Merchberger

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