[mythtv-users] Bad News for me...a warning to all

[jack]

With my Athlon 64 3200 and PowerNow feature with cpudyn all of my PCHDTV
recordings where randomly interrupted anywhere from 5 to 45 minutes into an
hour long recording. Disabled cpudyn and voila, haven't had a problem in
weeks. 

-----Original Message-----
From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of David
Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 9:11 AM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Bad News for me...a warning to all

I thought I'd chip in and point people to this:
http://www.daniel.nofftz.net/linux/Athlon-Powersaving-HOWTO.html

It makes a *huge* difference to the internal case temp for my 
Athlon2800/KT600 - YMMV.
I am using 2.6 and don't seem to have any issues.

David

Boyd II, Willy wrote:

>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org 
>>[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] 
>>Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 8:54 AM
>>To: Discussion about mythtv
>>Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Bad News for me...a warning to all
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>>>Anyway, thought I'd warn anyone out there...If your case 
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>>seems really 
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>>>hot - prepare for disaster.
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>>And sometimes drives go bad without excessive heat.
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>>This is why I use tar to backup my system (everything but the .nuv
>>files) across the network to a different Linux box (my 
>>desktop) before and after I upgrade any software.
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>>I would lose all my recorded shows with a drive crash, but I 
>>could get the backend back up and running fairly easily.
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>>I also restored my backend tar-file on a different box to 
>>create a frontend-only PC with just a few easy tweaks.
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>The backing-up is a great idea.  I lost like 3 weeks of code a while
>back, and backups was all I thought about right afterwards.  Sadly, it
>remained an afterthought, and I still haven't done anything about it.
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>One thing that worries me, is that lm_sensors gives meaningless values
>on my Chaintech 7nif2.. I mean the temps are all over the place... and
>from the limited research I've done, I couldn't find a remedy.  Has
>anyone else tried using the sensors on the 7nif2?  Also, someone
>mentioned using the smartd tools for drives... I don't know how much
>time this gives you in the event of a disaster, but I installed and
>setup the alerts anyhow.
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>- Willy
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>>- BS
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