[mythtv-users] Drive specs best for Myth

Yan Seiner yan at seiner.com
Mon Apr 23 16:19:21 UTC 2007


Lee Koloszyc wrote:
> Yan Seiner wrote:
>   
>> Also, sometimes I get a very, very long pause at the beginning of 
>> playback - 15 seconds or so.  It's as if something somewhere has to fill 
>> a large cache very slowly....
>>   
>>     
> I also have this probably, but on every recording, video and even DVD 
> playback.
> It seemed to show up around the time of .20 for me.  I've tried 
> everything to fix it.
>   
Interesting...  I switched from 0.18 to 0.20 when I changed servers; 
it's never occurred to me that it could be a Myth version problem....

> More on topic I run XFS filesystem on my machine with one SATA and one 
> ATA drive LVM'ed
> and am able to record 1 1080i, 1 SD, and watch a 1080i wihout a hiccup 
> (except that initial 15 sec delay) on an Athlon 3200+
> with an Nforce 3 motherboard.
>   

I think that's the difference... I have an Intel chipset mobo and I 
don't think it works as well as Nforce.....


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