[mythtv-users] Can mythtv play VOBs?

Ryan Steffes rbsteffes at gmail.com
Thu Oct 25 18:48:39 UTC 2007


On 10/25/07, Jay R. Ashworth <jra at baylink.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 01:46:12PM -0400, Ryan Steffes wrote:
> > 4) Recover the data from the hard drive!
>
> Well, it's funny you should mention this, Ryan.  :-)
>
> The drive(s) in question are 4 Seagates; 2 200s, 2 500s.  Near the top
> of drive 1/4 (a 200 which also had the boot partition on it) is ...
> something which when I try to even read those blocks, causes IDE
> controllers to lock up.
>
> Hard.
>
> The Linux ATA driver loses track of the idea that there's still
> *hardware* underneath it when I do.  Two separate motherboards, SuSE,
> DSL, Spinrite 6; always in the same place.
>
> What I'm about to do (when I get back from a very pricey trip to
> Jersey) is to track down a matching 200GB, and try DDing the top and
> bottom stripes off from their respective ends, and then just fsck the
> remains.
>
> Problem is: they're all LVM PV's and I can't figure out how to get LVM
> not to screech bloody murder when they're not *all* hooked up.
>
> Suggestions welcome.
>
> Cheers,
> -- jra

What has SeaTools told you about it?

And am I losing my mind, or did a woman from Boston just turn into a
man from Florida?


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