[mythtv-users] OT: Firewire HDD

[J. Donavan Stanley]

Joseph A. Caputo wrote:

>>>I'm trying to build my MythTV setup into an old CD player, and the
>>>biggest problems I have are 1) mounting the PVR-250 in there, and
>>>2) getting a hard drive in there.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>For 1, I bought a flexible PCI riser card, that I hope will work. 
>>>Since it's a cable, though, I'm worried about signal degradation. 
>>>If it doesn't work, I guess I'll just scrap the CD player project
>>>and mount it in a real case.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>For #2, I can't fit a 3.5" hard drive in there, so I found a 20gb
>>>laptop drive that I'm going to use.  I have a 160gig drive that I'd
>>>like to use for the storage, and I bought a firewire enclosure for
>>>it.  The problem is that when I plug it in, the system won't boot.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>My questions are:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>a) I know there are some EPIA users out there.has anyone used an
>>>external drive like this?
>>>
>>>b) Is it going to be a PITA getting the drive to mount in Linux?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>
>>>Gabe
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>EPIA M10k mobo
>>>
>>>Fedora Core 1
>>>
>>>256MB Mem
>>>
>>>Hauppauge PVR250
>>>
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>On Wednesday 18 February 2004 15:27, Paul Woodward wrote:
>  
>
>>Just a word of warning - I heard somewhere about Linux being very bad
>>with firewire HDs and simultanious reads/writes. Hopefully one of the
>>gurus on this list can shed some light...
>>
>>Paul
>>
>>    
>>
>
>I have an external USB2.0/FireWire enclosure that I use with a FireWire 
>card on my Myth box.  I can't speak as to the performance -- I use it 
>only for my ripped CD collection (MythMusic), and it performs fine for 
>that.  I don't know if it would have adequate performance for Myth's 
>video recording.  I suppose it *should* if the Linux sbp2 mass storage 
>support is good enough, which I've heard it isn't...
>
>I have found that figuring out how to auto-mount it (with or without 
>hotplug) is a real PITA.  I basically gave up for now; every time I 
>reboot my Myth box I have to manually re-mount the drive.  One of these 
>days I'll sit down and figure it out.  Obviously I can't boot from it, 
>either.
>
>  
>

I had mine semi-automounting by using a script that called 
"rescan-scsi-bus.sh" (attached)  then did the mount every time I booted. 
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