On Tue, December 11, 2007 12:31 pm, Gus Wirth wrote: > Lan Barnes wrote: >> I just did a stupid "Send" of a trimmed Gus message. My bad. >> >> On Sun, December 9, 2007 6:48 pm, Gus Wirth wrote: >> >>> If all three cards are trying to record at the same time you may be >>> encountering PCI bus latency issues. See this article on the MythTV >>> Wiki >>> for more info: http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/PCI_Latency >>> >> >> That looks terrifically promising. I checked and all three cards were at >> latency 64. I bumped all three to 128, and added that to /etc/rc.local. >> We >> shall see if this problem goes away. > > What is the latency setting for the hard drive? It should be set higher > than the cards. The article recommends setting the hard drive to have a > latency of 0xb0 (176 dec). Also, the wiki links to an excellent article > on the IBM Developer Works site > <http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-hw2.html> which I > highly recommend reading. That article gives more rational for the > settings and gives good advice on IRQs (Interrupt Requests). > > Gus
Thanks for catching that! /me ssh's in to fix yet again ... -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
