[mythtv-users] Hard Drive Performance

Ryan Steffes rbsteffes at gmail.com
Thu Mar 30 18:07:49 UTC 2006


On 3/30/06, Tom Lichti <tom at redpepperracing.com> wrote:
>
> Ryan Steffes wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 3/30/06, *Tom Lichti* <tom at redpepperracing.com
> > <mailto:tom at redpepperracing.com >> wrote:
> >
> >
> >     > The system was recording during that test, I can shut myth down
> >     later
> >     > to get "clean" numbers if it would help.  DMA is on for both
> drives.
> >     What does hdparm -d /dev/hd? show?
> >
> >
> > /dev/hda:
> >  using_dma    =  1 (on)
> >
> > /dev/hdc:
> >  using_dma    =  1 (on)
> Alright, that clears that up. I can record two streams (PVR-250)
> simultaneously, comm-flag, and watch pre-recorded shows all at the same
> time on one backend, so I'm not sure where your problem lies. Is there
> anything odd from dmesg? Also, did you post the backend hardware specs?
>
> Tom



AMD Athlon XP running at (cpu MHz         : 1660.108),  1gig of RAM.  I
don't have the motherboard make handy at the moment.

Ryan
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