[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
not the SATA. I have found that I can provoke the glitches even in
Knoppmyth, by writing the ringbuffer to a temp directory on one of the
SATA drives instead of the IDE.
I now officially dislike SATA drives. This was my first machine using
them, and had all sorts of initial problems. Now this. Time to get a
nice big reliable IDE drive I think.
There are known problems with certain on-board SATA controllers (Silicon Image I think) and their impact on DVB cards.
and that's exactly what my NF7-S has a SI 3112 from memory. Used to
cause disk corruption until a BIOS update.
(eg see: http://www.nebula-electronics.com/information/DigiTVPCI.htm under the
Restrictions section).
This caused me lots of problems when first setting up a dedicated box. >From
memory my mobo had 2 SATA controllers and switching to the non-SI controller fixed
all the glitches.
So early SI chips interfere with DVB. That's twice it's bitten me,
never again...
Thanks for the verification....
Anybody want to buy a few 100 GB of SATA storage (250GB WD, and 2 80GB
Seagates)? :-) Just joking. A new MB is almost as cheap as another
SATA controller card (unless you buy a cheap one, and they seem to be
early SI based often anyway).
I could use them just for offline storage as they cause no problems just
sitting there. It's only when you access them that they upset the DVB.
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