TiVo external SATA bypass

posted Oct 18th 2006 8:22am by
filed under: home entertainment hacks


TiVo left the external SATA port on the series three disabled. [Lightrunner] bypassed this silly restriction by adding a sata to esata cable (AFAIK the only difference is the shape of the connector and shielding on the cable.) and a nice big SATA RAID array. Silly TiVo, massive recording storage is for everyone.

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4 Responses to TiVo external SATA bypass

  • olliestyles says:
    October 18, 2006 at 11:57 pm

    w00t

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  • xxdesmus says:
    October 19, 2006 at 7:27 am

    wow that is cool!

    I may just go pick one of these up for myself after all…

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  • pocketbrain says:
    October 19, 2006 at 9:05 am

    Let us know when you reegnigne a workaround to the 1TB limit. Very good work.

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  • Eleventeen says:
    October 19, 2006 at 12:31 pm

    That’s awesome.

    I wish someone could find a way to enable the SATA on the Comcast DVR boxes now.

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