[mythtv-users] How many PVR cards can one system take?

[Chris Isip]

Thanks Guys,
I am planning on working on this upcoming weekend.

Mike, the KT400 I believe has a VIA chipset, Is this going to be a problem?
Brian, what PCI latency settings did you have to do and how did you do them,
just in case I run into an issue.

Chris

On 11/5/06, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
>
>
> On Nov 5, 2006, at 6:43 AM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>
> > On 11/05/2006 03:00 AM, Chris Isip wrote:
> >> I have 2 PVR 250 cards happily running in a Soyo KT400 with Athlon
> >> 2400 XP.  I have a spare pvr 500 which I can put in this box.  I
> >> wonder if anybody has created a 4 tuner setup.
> >
> > Yep.
>
> Here too, 4 PVR-150s
>
> >
> >> I have a couple of hard drives in LVM with ext3 on them.  Both
> >> harddrives are ATA 100.   I wonder if 4 simultaneous recordings will
> >> be too much for the hard drives to handle.
> >
> > Nope.
>
> Agreed. I'm using a RAID-0 to increase throughput, but I really don't
> think it's necessary.
>
> >
> >> Any thoughts?
> >
> >
> > Have recorded 4 shows at once while doing near-real-time commflagging
> > and watching another (recorded) show.  No fancy RAID or anything, just
> > an LVM with ext3.
>
> I did have to tweak the PCI latency in order for this sort of thing
> to work without glitches in the recordings, but it does work fine now.
>
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