[mythtv-users] Mythtv recording filesystem (sata) goes read only

[Roger Heflin]

Rich West wrote:
> John Drescher wrote:
>>>  > -Rich
>>>  Whoops.. included the wrong motherboard link.  The right one is:
>>>  http://biz.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?Sku=M452-2848
>>>
>>>     
>> A word of warning to others. NEVER buy a VIA based motherboard. With
>> VIA you will experience things like this and also problems with
>> interrupts specifically with ivtv cards.
> 
> 
> Ya know, I knew that was going to come up. :)
> 
> Although I don't necessarily disagree, I've had a fair number of VIA
> based motherboards (they are rather popular) and have (until now) no
> major issues.
> 
> My only experience with IVTV issues (and this particular motherboard is
> full) was resolved by updating to the latest ivtv drivers (as it was a
> driver related issue).
> 

I have a via based mb and everything works fine except for the sata_via ports, 
including the 2 PVR-150, and HD-5500 cards, I had to buy a separate SATA card 
for the disks.   My sata_via ports failed to fully find the drivers (kernel saw 
them but aborted real early).


                                  Roger