TiVo external SATA bypass - Hack a Day

TiVo external SATA bypass

posted Oct 18th 2006 8:22am by Will O'Brien
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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w00t

Posted at 11:57 pm on Oct 18th, 2006 by olliestyles

wow that is cool!

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

Posted at 7:27 am on Oct 19th, 2006 by xxdesmus

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

Posted at 9:05 am on Oct 19th, 2006 by pocketbrain

That’s awesome.

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

Posted at 12:31 pm on Oct 19th, 2006 by Eleventeen

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