--- Steve Adeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 12 October 2005 07:37, Phil Strong wrote: > > SATA and DMA not working how can I resolve this guys? > > > > On 10/11/05, Phil Strong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I recently replaced my mythbox with a shiny new machine that now > has SATA > > > drives. After initial install of OS and Myth ... I play live tv > and it is > > > slow and/or skips. I checked the hdparm for /dev/hda5 (/video) > and find > > > out that DMA is disabled :). > > > > > > How do I go about enabling DMA? > > > > > > If the answer is reinstall how do I insure this won't happen > again? > > if your SATA drive is on /dev/hda then its not a SATA drive or you > need to > move from a 2.4 kernel to a 2.6 kernel and get real SATA support. > > Steve
Dumb question, but can you still run "hdparm -t /dev/whatever" on a SATA drive? No matter how it's configured, it would at least give you a ballpark figure on if the drive is configured right. My system just scored 11MB/sec while recording two shows and transcoding, and 40MB/sec when it was merely transcoding. _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
