Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] HD noise and PVR250

[Gregory J. McGee]

Awhile back, someone posted about this:

hdparm -I /dex/hda

Somewhere in the dump, it will say something like :
Recommended acoustic management value: 192, current value: 255

Read the man page, and set it to the suggested value.
(yeah, I suck ;-)
The drive seems to save this: mine is still actually 192,and 128.
I edited the above for effect.

My drives are now dead silent, and hdparm -Tt shows the drives to be
virtually the same speed in one case( 44.5 MB/sec vs 45.something)
and the other one appears to be FASTER (~25 vs 43) 

Reiserfs is great for your / fs. Put video on xfs.

> Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 16:39:58 +0200
> From: Rudy Zijlstra <mythtv at edsons.demon.nl>
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] HD noise and PVR250
> To: Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> Message-ID: <40A8CEBE.9010702 at edsons.demon.nl>
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> 
> Omar Depps wrote:
> 
> > My system is up and running really well--thanks to everyone
> involved. 
> > My only "complaint" is that my HD makes LOTS of noise. I don't want
> to 
> > change the HD/case, and all the video files are on an ext3
> partition 
> > with the fewest possible inodes (-T largefile4) for whatever that
> may 
> > be worth. (For the record, my impression is that there are now 
> > less/smoother disk writes under ext3 than when I was using
> reiserfs, 
> > but any difference is minor.)
> 
> XFS is more appropriate, as i was told on the reiserfs list by Hans R.
> For that reason I am using XFS on my myth storage partition.
> 
> Rudy
-- 
Gregory J. McGee <gjmcgee at cableone.net>