for what its worth, I am using 2 firewire "encoders" with a local 7 drive raid5. I am using latest ATrpms on FC3. kernel 2.6.12 smp.
I have had no problems with simultaneous HD recordings (even starting at the same time), and the performance seems to be better than my old 2 drive LVM configuration. My system: P4 3.2 (with HT) 1 G RAM 2 onboard SATA ports 3 ATA/133 cards with 2 channels each -- one drive per channel 6 x wd2500 (woot's 250 G drive) 2 x Hitachi SATA 250 G 2 x on-board Firewire capture 6 ATA and 1 SATA make the raid5, and the other SATA is root. /dev/md0 is formatted XFS for 1.45 TB The only RAID problem I had was one of the WD drives dropped off, not bad, just needed a reset. The system hung twice during the subsequent rebuilds. Added the drive back, and its all happy now. No recording problems at all. I actually stopped getting glitches in my HD records (part due to better RAID performance, part due to no longer running commercial detection) _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
