On 14/10/05, MacNean Tyrrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, so if my system is up for a day or longer, the system fails. It doesn't > crash. I run mythbackend and frontend out of xterm windows. After a > restart it will record no problem forever, i mean i set it up to record like > 10 hours on each pvr 250 (i have 2), with no problem. But if it sits for > awhile, than at times it fails. Like i'll check the watch recordings and > the last recording stopped at say like 41:00 into the show, and no more > shows scheduled for after that recording will record. If i try to go into > the schedule recordings program guide, it locks up. No errors are shown > that i can see. Next time it happens I'll try to write everything down, but > i've never really seen any error messages. It's almost like it fails to > access the database or something. It happens every couple days or every day > even. It's like i have to reboot the system every day at 5:00pm to make > sure it records my shows for the nite. It really sucks. I never had this > problem before with the same system. The only change is the new 300gig > harddrive. Now i don't know if perhaps one of the PVR-250 has failed, but > it's not always the same one that fails i think. I'll try to record at > different times to see if a certain one locks it up, but like lost records 1 > minute past 10: and i was recording law and order last nite, lost recorded > fine on the first encoder, but law and order failed at 41:33 into the show. > Other times there has been no other show recording so it was only the first > recorder recording and that's failed, so don't think its that. Could it > really be the harddrive? But why would it be able to start but not finish? > I used to have a problem before this harddrive, where if i transcoded > something, when it ended the same thing happened. Like if i accidently hit > the transcode button but than stopped it, it would do the thing where I > couldn't access the program guide, locks up mythtv, and would stop any > recordings in progress. I know it only happens at the end, because i > transcoded a DVD to XVID and it recorded all the shows while it was running, > a few hours, but as soon as it finished, it locked up like that. And it > only locks up the program guide, i can go to watch recordings and stuff like > that. Don't know about live tv, never use it so never checked. But now it > does it almost every day, if not every day. Can any one help? > > New Hraddrive: > > Maxtor DiamondMax 10 300GB 3.5" IDE Ultra ATA133 Hard Drive - OEM-- > Video Card: SiS 315 > Memory: PC 133, 2 128 sticks, 1 256 stick > 2 pvr-250's, one recently RMA'd got a new one (recently, about 6 months) > KT133 mobo i believe, > AMD Athlon 850 > > Need anything else?
How about your linux/mythtv versions and the mythbackend and system logs from the time the machine stops recording/hangs? They may contain useful info. Bearing in mind you're running a VIA-based system, it could be related to DMA issues. Nick _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
