jerome lacoste wrote:
On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 15:50:02 -0500, Maverick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Try getting a separate hard drive controller. Those that came with the maxtor drives a while back can be had for a few bucks on ebay.
OK, since there seems to be a ton of people on the list lately
complaining about the lockup issues with PVR-350's, using TVout, I
the thing is that the lock ups happen even if we don't use TV Out.
I don't I am on a monitor.
the system would just freeze. Having to reboot w/ the reset switch. If
we did it quick enough, we can bring the machines back to life by
causing the NIC (or maybe other PCI device?) to interrupt. So ping
flooding the NIC, or hitting enter at the SSH prompt on the box worked
magic.
That's interesting. I could set up a monitor from another machine to try to flood the machine when ping fails....
Adding that to my TODO list. If someone writes one, let me know.
who knows. What I do know is, it works fine on "different" hardware,
yes, that was our fix!
... I can't do that...
My friend upgraded from the 533/VIA board to Compaq ATX board I had
laying around, it is a Athlon 600. He has since had no problems.
What chipset was handling the DMA in these boards?
* Disable DMA on the HD I/O. It has the effect of slowing the box to a
crawl, beyond that, didn't "fix" the problem, because the box itself
was too slow...
I am testing this right now. About 10 hours of uptime (among which 5h of Live TV) without lock. That's way over the best I could do before.
It's not a proof but it tends to go in the direction of those saying that DMA is broken...
Thanks for you list.
Jerome
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