[mythtv-users] Am I able to stop auto-recording?

[Marco Nelissen]

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>On Mar 26, 2006, at 10:30 AM, Marco Nelissen wrote:
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>> I'm guessing that that's where Tivo's MFS (media file system) comes
>> in. Tivo's harddrive has always been whisper-quiet for me, even when
>> recording 2 shows and playing one. For Myth with JFS I had to suspend
>> the harddrive in rubberbands in order to make it quiet enough for the
>> living room. Maybe what's needed is "mythtfs".
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>Seems a little drastic, not to say Rube Goldberg-ish.
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>Several cases, like the Antec Sonata II, have rubber mounts for the  
>hard drives.

That's the case I'm using, actually. It just has rubber grommets that
the harddrive mounts to though. They didn't do a good enough job of
keeping the vibration caused by head-movement from being transmitted
to the case itself. So I made something similar to this:
http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1034
and that quieted it down.

>Most SATA drives use fluid bearings which are very quiet.

Fluid bearings are nice because they reduce the 'whining' noise caused
by the harddrive's rotation, but they don't do much to reduce vibration
caused by head-movement.

>OTOH the cement block is "very" quiet, and is available in decorator  
>colors to match your LR color scheme.

It doesn't have nearly enough PCI slots though.