> The real test would be if all 4 PVR 500's will work (stable) with a new > motherboard, and I don't have a motherboard in my desktop machine with 4 > PCI > slots. On a whim, I've crossed my fingers and purchased a new MSI > 945P_Neo3-F and Intel Core 2 Duo 6600E (and 2Gigs DDR2) to replace the > ASUS > board and Opteron. Maybe this will do the trick. I'm recompiling the > kernel to include SMP. Let me know if anything here sounds like a bad > idea. >
This sounds very much like the same board I'm using. I'm at work now, so I can't check, but it is an MSI with an Intel 945 chipset and 4 PCI slots. I had some trouble getting the on-board SATA controller to work in native mode. Turned out I needed to add 3 modules to my initrd: ata_piix, libata and scsi_mod. Without these I could only boot with the controller in PATA legacy mode which was incredibly slow: RAID1 rebuild of 40GB took 22 hours with a load of ~25. Performance was so bad I almost brought the board back. Now it's working incredibly reliable with a dual core D805 and 2 PVR-350's and a Promise PATA controller (doing software RAID5) on the PCI bus. Stanley. > -- > > Rich Kadel > Appeligo, Inc. > (858) 433-1747 > www.appeligo.com > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brad Barnett > Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 7:54 PM > To: Discussion list for development of the IVTV driver > Subject: Re: [ivtv-devel] System (practically) non-responsive after > several > hours...no clues > > On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 19:28:53 -0800 > "Rich Kadel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I may have to do that, but I'll have to swap out the CPU as well (and >> maybe memory). Could be pricey, but I need the stability. If that's >> what it takes. >> >> Any recommendations on an Intel motherboard, chipset, CPU combination >> that supports 4 PCI slots? PVR-500 requires 3.3 volt support, as I >> recall. >> > > You couldn't swap that box with your desktop, for example, for a few days? > Anything to debug... > >> -- >> >> Rich Kadel >> Appeligo, Inc. >> (858) 433-1747 >> www.appeligo.com >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brad Barnett >> Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 4:13 PM >> To: Discussion list for development of the IVTV driver >> Subject: Re: [ivtv-devel] System (practically) non-responsive after >> several hours...no clues >> >> >> >> DMA issues should only occur when the card is actually in use. However, >> I want to warn you, I had DMA issues with merely one PVR-500 and a >> PVR-350! >> >> I had these problems with three different VIA chipsets, and they utterly >> vanished when I moved to an Intel chipset. VIA forums are rife with >> complaints about said chips. >> >> With a box that has 4 tuner cards in it, trying a different motherboard >> shouldn't be an issue. A swap out should take 10-15 minutes.... >> >> On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 15:50:45 -0800 >> "Rich Kadel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > > > _______________________________________________ > ivtv-devel mailing list > ivtv-devel@ivtvdriver.org > http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-devel > _______________________________________________ ivtv-devel mailing list ivtv-devel@ivtvdriver.org http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-devel
