> > ANY REASON TO BELIEVE I'D GET BETTER RESULTS WITH 2.6.14 THAN > 2.6.12? > > Not that I know of. I needed a newer kernel to run the CVS DVB > drivers > to support the HD-5000.
This is starting to seem like a widespread problem if it's happening on HD2000, HD3000, and the HD5000 (which, for new readers of this thread, is not manufactured by pcHDTV). Especially when the HD5000 uses different drivers (still DVB based). I wouldn't think they'd all by so suceptible to EMI/IRQ/whatever issues. Unfortunately, I don't have time to look at the drivers right now. > I expect that a different chipset would correct the issues I'm having > with my SATA drive. If I replace my motherboard, I'll also get a > different CPU, and a faster CPU might help hide the problem. (I would > love to see a site that lists lots of CPUs by performance and heat, so > I > can see what would be an improvement over my 2500+ without running > hotter.) I wouldn't count on it. I just picked up an ASRock 939 Dual SATA2 board with a ULi chipset to try against my MSI k8n-neo4 platinum. The new board has 2 SATA and 1 SATA2 connectors - but I'm not using any of them right, just PATA drives. I'm still experiencing corruption. Heck, I'm experiencing corruption even when the data is never being saved to the disk (saving and streaming from a network connection), but only when there is high amounts of I/O (any flavor). Making me think that it's less of a EMI/mobo issue and much more of a driver issue. Of course, it could be related with not servicing the interrupts fast enough, I tried the interrupt trick you mentioned and didn't get much better results. I may have to find an antenna and see what I can do with the old school v4l drivers (if they even compile anymore). Failing that, it looks like I'll go pick up a dirt cheap reject computer and just have a huge system for an external HD tuner and have that be all that it does. At least the system can be woken up remotely to record only at specified times. As far as performance and heat, the newer AMDs with Venice and San Diego cores run pretty cool. I've got a 3200+ OC'd to 2300MHz (from 2000) and it never gets about 100F. Cool and quiet is a GREAT thing too. For SD TV the system never needs to ramp up to faster rates even. Only issue is that it doesn't ramp up the processor for nice processes, so transcoding and commercial flagging are really slow still. --Patrick
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