No, sorry, wasn't clear. Not moving any physical hard drives.
The process I was describing was where someone had documented copying all of their existing recordings from the internal to the external via a Linux OS connected to the two units, eliminating the need to reset back and forth between the two should there be some recordings on the HR that you want to preserve. That one's relatively safe - if I screw up the copy to the Xtreme, I go reformat the drive and try again, my source recordings aren't lost.
In the scenario I'm describing - switching HR21s between the two rooms, and moving the HR21-700 with the functional e-SATA port into the living room - the steps would be these:
- Copy the Model 700 hard drive to the Xtreme.
- Write down or print the directory listing of these files for the copying back to the Model 100.
- Copy the model 100 hard drive to the Xtreme. This may be the show-stopper right here because of the questionable state of the e-SATA port, though I did get this box to boot to/"see" the Xtreme twice (out of about 50 tries).
- Plug the model 100 back in, fire it up, and delete the recordings off of the internal drive to free up space.
- Bring the model 100 back to the Linux PC, and again assuming I can access the model 100's internal drive via the e-SATA port, here comes the questionable/scary part - copy the files (recordings) that were originally on the model 700 from the Xtreme to the model 100
- I can then plug the Xtreme into the e-SATA port on the model 700, move it into the living room, and our work here is done, Tonto.
Obviously, the enormous exposure here is that if things get messed up on the model 100's internal drive by trying to write to it, I have no way to recover.
So I guess what I'm asking after all of that verbiage is if anybody has tried (via Linux) to copy a recording TO an internal drive on an HR rather than FROM one.
