[mythtv-users] Newbie hard drive question - PVR350 / KnoppMyth
Happy New Year, long time listener, first time caller here So a co worker (hey Todd) got me all excited about MythTV and over the past few weeks I have successfully set up my own box using KnoppMyth and a PVR350. Here is my rig. Asus P4S8X Mother Board Nvidia Ti4200 8X AGP 128 MB Video Card 512 MB DDR SDRAM One WD 20 gig ATA 100 HD One Maxtor 100 gig SATA HD Happauge PVR350 KnoppMyth RA526 So far I have all the basics working. I had originally had it hook up to a 17 inch CRT monitor while I was building and testing, but just recently got the TV Out working and hooked it up to my TV set. But this is where my troubles have started. First off it has started to freeze during playback of recorded shows and during DVD rips (something that never happened before). Here is my file system. /root, /cache and /swap are all on my WD 20 gig harddrive on IDE0 /myth is on a SATA 100 gig harddrive I suspect most of my problems are because of the SATA and was wondering how to go about trouble shooting something like this. I have used Linux for a long time but I am by no means an expect. I believe my kernel was compiled with support for my hard drive which sits ona Raid0 by itself. By the way could this be a problem having a single drive as a Raid0? Finally, would my rig work better if I set both drives up under LVM as one drive and is this possible to do this with a one hard drive on a IDE channel and one on a Raid? Hope this all makes sense. Thanks so much in advance, Philip ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Newbie hard drive question - PVR350 / KnoppMyth
Do you have any messages in your /var/log/messages file or otherpertinent files around the time that your system freezes?-- Christopher Farnham[EMAIL PROTECTED] NOTE: I'm no longer using my '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' address ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Newbie hard drive question - PVR350 / KnoppMyth
Not that I recall. I mostly look at /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend for errrors but I think it freezes before it has time to spit out any problems. At least that is my best guess. Any idea about SATA hardrives and IDE harddrives sharing the load? I'm wondering if there is a problem there. Philip Christopher Farnham wrote: Do you have any messages in your /var/log/messages file or other pertinent files around the time that your system freezes? -- Christopher Farnham [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] NOTE: I'm no longer using my '[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]' address ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- Philip Isaacs Academic Computing Multimedia Developer Wesleyan University 553 Exeley Science Center Middletown, CT 06459 860-685-2754 http://learningobjects.wesleyan.edu ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Newbie hard drive question - PVR350 / KnoppMyth
Any idea about SATA hardrives and IDE harddrives sharing the load? I'mwondering if there is a problem there.Nope, no idea. I was asking about your /var/log/messages because I have a similarsetup (except I have one drive). When the system froze it dumped errors out to my messages file which I was able to track down to incompatible ivtv drivers with myPVR350 firmware. Updating my firmware fixed the problem.But if you aren't getting logging messages then that may not be it. -chris-- Christopher Farnham[EMAIL PROTECTED]NOTE: I'm no longer using my ' [EMAIL PROTECTED]' address ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Newbie hard drive question - PVR350 / KnoppMyth
Not that I recall. I mostly look at /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend for errrors but I think it freezes before it has time to spit out any problems. At least that is my best guess. Any idea about SATA hardrives and IDE harddrives sharing the load? I'm wondering if there is a problem there. Do you have any messages in your /var/log/messages file or other pertinent files around the time that your system freezes? Does that motherboard have a VIA chipset? Well documented cause of problems... ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Newbie hard drive question - PVR350 / KnoppMyth
Where can I get the firmware update for my PVR350? Christopher Farnham wrote: Any idea about SATA hardrives and IDE harddrives sharing the load? I'm wondering if there is a problem there. Nope, no idea. I was asking about your /var/log/messages because I have a similar setup (except I have one drive). When the system froze it dumped errors out to my messages file which I was able to track down to incompatible ivtv drivers with my PVR350 firmware. Updating my firmware fixed the problem. But if you aren't getting logging messages then that may not be it. -chris -- Christopher Farnham [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] NOTE: I'm no longer using my ' [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]' address ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- Philip Isaacs Academic Computing Multimedia Developer Wesleyan University 553 Exeley Science Center Middletown, CT 06459 860-685-2754 http://learningobjects.wesleyan.edu ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Newbie hard drive question - PVR350 / KnoppMyth
I'm not sure I have a VIA. I thought the motherboard had an SIS chipset? Where do I double check this info? Thanks Lee wrote: Not that I recall. I mostly look at /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend for errrors but I think it freezes before it has time to spit out any problems. At least that is my best guess. Any idea about SATA hardrives and IDE harddrives sharing the load? I'm wondering if there is a problem there. Do you have any messages in your /var/log/messages file or other pertinent files around the time that your system freezes? Does that motherboard have a VIA chipset? Well documented cause of problems... ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- Philip Isaacs Academic Computing Multimedia Developer Wesleyan University 553 Exeley Science Center Middletown, CT 06459 860-685-2754 http://learningobjects.wesleyan.edu ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Newbie hard drive question - PVR350 / KnoppMyth
On 1/2/06, Philip Isaacs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where can I get the firmware update for my PVR350? Here: http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Firmware Christopher Farnham wrote: Any idea about SATA hardrives and IDE harddrives sharing the load? I'm wondering if there is a problem there. Nope, no idea.I was asking about your /var/log/messages because I have a similar setup (except I have one drive).When the system froze it dumped errors out to my messages file which I was able to track down to incompatible ivtv drivers with my PVR350 firmware.Updating my firmware fixed the problem. But if you aren't getting logging messages then that may not be it. -chris -- Christopher Farnham [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] NOTE: I'm no longer using my ' [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]' address ___mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.orghttp://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users--Philip IsaacsAcademic Computing Multimedia Developer Wesleyan University553 Exeley Science CenterMiddletown, CT 06459860-685-2754http://learningobjects.wesleyan.edu___ mythtv-users mailing listmythtv-users@mythtv.orghttp://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- Fedor G Pikus ([EMAIL PROTECTED])http://www.pikus.net http://wild-light.com ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Newbie hard drive question - PVR350 / KnoppMyth
On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 15:08, Philip Isaacs wrote: Not that I recall. I mostly look at /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend for errrors but I think it freezes before it has time to spit out any problems. At least that is my best guess. Any idea about SATA hardrives and IDE harddrives sharing the load? I'm wondering if there is a problem there. Philip When you moved it to the TV is it in a cabinet? Could you have a heat related problem? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Newbie hard drive question - PVR350 / KnoppMyth
Yes the TV is in a cabinet. But I don't think that would cause any problems. Scot L. Harris wrote: On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 15:08, Philip Isaacs wrote: Not that I recall. I mostly look at /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend for errrors but I think it freezes before it has time to spit out any problems. At least that is my best guess. Any idea about SATA hardrives and IDE harddrives sharing the load? I'm wondering if there is a problem there. Philip When you moved it to the TV is it in a cabinet? Could you have a heat related problem? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- Philip Isaacs Academic Computing Multimedia Developer Wesleyan University 553 Exeley Science Center Middletown, CT 06459 860-685-2754 http://learningobjects.wesleyan.edu ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
