RE: [mythtv-users] (WAS) KnoppMyth (NOW) Sata problems

2005-10-21 Thread Simpson, Richard
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of ffrr > > Trouble is, a new mobo is about the same price as a big IDE > drive, and > much harder to fit. Plus, unless I want to buy a new CPU (I > have an 2.2 > AMD Sempron, most MBs for it will be old

Re: [mythtv-users] (WAS) KnoppMyth (NOW) Sata problems

2005-10-21 Thread ffrr
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: . Or maybe upgrade the bios. I was just looking at the ASUS site. Several of the bios updates for the board I'm using relate to the SATA chip. I'll bet the picture is similar at Abit Did that just recently to fix the problem of disk corruption. So I'm runni

Re: [mythtv-users] (WAS) KnoppMyth (NOW) Sata problems

2005-10-21 Thread ffrr
Simpson, Richard wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of ffrr Probably not a good idea. Maybe I should just sell the SATA drives on eBay and get SOME of my money back. I feel a bit ripped off by this whole SATA deal right now :

Re: [mythtv-users] (WAS) KnoppMyth (NOW) Sata problems

2005-10-21 Thread Blastzone
For what it's worth, I had a hell of a time with SATA & PATA drives in my ASUS Pundit-R.  (250GB Maxtor midline SATA & NEC DVD-RW or ASUS DVD-RW drives) DMA acceleration would not work on either PATA DVD drive, some FC3 kernels would segfault on startup, Knoppix or Gentoo LiveCDs would not boot, a

RE: [mythtv-users] (WAS) KnoppMyth (NOW) Sata problems

2005-10-21 Thread match
On 21 Oct 2005 at 8:29, Simpson, Richard wrote: > > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of ffrr > > > Probably not a good idea. Maybe I should just sell the SATA > > drives on > > eBay and get SOME of my money back. I feel a bit rippe

RE: [mythtv-users] (WAS) KnoppMyth (NOW) Sata problems

2005-10-21 Thread Simpson, Richard
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of ffrr > Probably not a good idea. Maybe I should just sell the SATA > drives on > eBay and get SOME of my money back. I feel a bit ripped off by this > whole SATA deal right now :-( My brother has b

Re: [mythtv-users] (WAS) KnoppMyth (NOW) Sata problems

2005-10-21 Thread ffrr
Alex Cruz wrote: On Friday 21 October 2005 01:49 am, ffrr wrote: Anybody want to buy a few 100 GB of SATA storage (250GB WD, and 2 80GB Seagates)? :-) Just joking.A new MB is almost as cheap as another SATA controller card (unless you buy a cheap one, and they seem to be early SI based

Re: [mythtv-users] (WAS) KnoppMyth (NOW) Sata problems

2005-10-21 Thread Alex Cruz
On Friday 21 October 2005 01:49 am, ffrr wrote: > > Anybody want to buy a few 100 GB of SATA storage (250GB WD, and 2 80GB > Seagates)? :-) Just joking.A new MB is almost as cheap as another > SATA controller card (unless you buy a cheap one, and they seem to be > early SI based often anyway).

Re: [mythtv-users] (WAS) KnoppMyth (NOW) Sata problems

2005-10-20 Thread ffrr
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: not the SATA. I have found that I can provoke the glitches even in Knoppmyth, by writing the ringbuffer to a temp directory on one of the SATA drives instead of the IDE. I now officially dislike SATA drives. This was my first machine using them, and had all

RE: [mythtv-users] (WAS) KnoppMyth (NOW) Sata problems

2005-10-20 Thread Gareth . Jones
>not the SATA. I have found that I can provoke the glitches even in >Knoppmyth, by writing the ringbuffer to a temp directory on one of the >SATA drives instead of the IDE. >I now officially dislike SATA drives. This was my first machine using >them, and had all sorts of initial problems. N

Re: [mythtv-users] (WAS) KnoppMyth (NOW) Sata problems

2005-10-20 Thread ffrr
Alex Cruz wrote: Great news on the DVB!! Now it's looking like you're where I was about 3 months ago which was "Do I continue using my workstation to mess with MythTV or do I build a dedicated unit?" I decided to build the standalong and I'm glad I did. Now, I'm not screwing up my workstation