Re: [mythtv-users] Setting up MythTV in a wierd way ...

2005-01-06 Thread Cory Papenfuss
On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, M. Barnabas Luntzel wrote: before you get too deep in this, and maybe I dont know about sun blades (definitely dont know much) but is this a sun machine with SPARC processor(s)? Has anybody installed this mess on a sun sparc, maybe sparc linux (solaris seems unlikely)? if the

Re: [mythtv-users] Setting up MythTV in a wierd way ...

2005-01-06 Thread M. Barnabas Luntzel
before you get too deep in this, and maybe I dont know about sun blades (definitely dont know much) but is this a sun machine with SPARC processor(s)? Has anybody installed this mess on a sun sparc, maybe sparc linux (solaris seems unlikely)? if there are success stories of mythtv on sun ha

Re: [mythtv-users] Setting up MythTV in a wierd way ...

2005-01-05 Thread Poul Petersen
If I understand what you are shooting for then the good soultion would be a SAN with a shared filesystem, OpenGFS for example. It might look something like: - /{Fe1} |MBe|---{SAN Array/OpenGFS}---|NFS Server|---{LAN}-{Fe2} -

Re: [mythtv-users] Setting up MythTV in a wierd way ...

2005-01-05 Thread Brad Templeton
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 05:00:00PM -0800, Matt Picker wrote: > I'm no seasoned pro myself but I would go with the > external scsi solution. You can usually find a scsi > card and an external enclosure for a steal somewhere. > Like if you happened to work at a company that kept > old equipment...

Re: [mythtv-users] Setting up MythTV in a wierd way ...

2005-01-05 Thread Matt Picker
I'm no seasoned pro myself but I would go with the external scsi solution. You can usually find a scsi card and an external enclosure for a steal somewhere. Like if you happened to work at a company that kept old equipment... :) Another solution would maybe be to isolate the file server from your

Re: [mythtv-users] Setting up MythTV in a wierd way ...

2005-01-05 Thread Bear Paw
Disk I/O shouldn't be a problem, all disks we are planning on using are either FC (we have 2x36GB drives) or SCSI320 (we have like a box of them) and we want to use a Sun Blade 1000 (2x900MHz uSPARCs with dual PCI buses and FC controller). I think I'll tell my roommate that we need it all on one sy

Re: [mythtv-users] Setting up MythTV in a wierd way ...

2005-01-05 Thread Bear Paw
My roomate scored some equipment at a .com auction ... a LCD projector, some SCSI hard drives, some LCD monitors ... but the cream of the crop is a Sun Blade 1000. It has 2 36Gig FC drives, it has one SCSI connector open so we can throw a system disk in there. it has 4 PCI slots and we were going t

Re: [mythtv-users] Setting up MythTV in a wierd way ...

2005-01-05 Thread Bruce Markey
Bear Paw wrote: Greetings peoples ... I'm really new at MythTV but I've been tracking its progress for some time. My question has to do making a really weird setup. System one: 4 tuner cards, records and encodes shows and transfers them to fileserver System two: File server, this will hold the

Re: [mythtv-users] Setting up MythTV in a wierd way ...

2005-01-05 Thread Dan Littlejohn
Is there a reason for caching? How about set up a NFS share from System two to System one then just have System one record directly on System two. Dan Littlejohn +++ On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 14:24:24 -0800, Bear Paw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Greetings peoples ... I'm really new at MythTV

Re: [mythtv-users] Setting up MythTV in a wierd way ...

2005-01-05 Thread Josh Burks
I'd combine 1 and 2 into a master backend that the frontends connect to. And no, this is not a weird way to use MythTV... Josh On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 14:24:24 -0800, Bear Paw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Greetings peoples ... I'm really new at MythTV but I've been tracking its > progress for so

Re: [mythtv-users] Setting up MythTV in a wierd way ...

2005-01-05 Thread Asher Schaffer
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 14:24:24 -0800, Bear Paw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Greetings peoples ... I'm really new at MythTV but I've been tracking its > progress for some time. My question has to do making a really weird setup. > > System one: 4 tuner cards, records and encodes shows and transf

[mythtv-users] Setting up MythTV in a wierd way ...

2005-01-05 Thread Bear Paw
Greetings peoples ... I'm really new at MythTV but I've been tracking its progress for some time. My question has to do making a really weird setup.   System one: 4 tuner cards, records and encodes shows and transfers them to fileserver System two: File server, this will hold the MythTV back