[mythtv-users] transcode?

[Mark Knecht]

On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 12:42 PM, steve <sfreilly at roadrunner.com> wrote:
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>  Brian Wood wrote:
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> | Hard drives are pretty cheap these days :-)
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>  steve is saving pennies for a pair of Iphones, economic stimulus where
>  are you?????? may 9 isnt coming fast enough lol.  .......but....... If I
>  were to take say a spare HD out of a dead IBM netvista (junk) 80 gig,
>  what do I have to do just format it in fdisk, switch the jumpers to
>  slave and will the OS recognize it so I can use it?  new territory for
>  me here...
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You can do that if you want. However you do place more load on the
PC's power supply so be reasonably sure you won't have a problem
there.

If you put the drive in and on the same cable then watch out for the
master/slave jumpers and make sure your slave drive is in the middle
of the cable. (Assume we're talking about older flat ATA cables and
not SATA, etc.

Once you've got the drive in the machine if it works it becomes a new
'device'. Each ATA cable supports two devices so the master is
supposed to be HDA, HDC, HDE, etc., while the slaves should be HDB,
HDD, HDF, etc. Basically each cable pair goes like

Master/Slave
hda/hdb
hdc/hdd
hde/hdf

If you can find the device then you just format it with

mke2fs -j /dev/hdd

create a mount point and mount it in fstab.

I know you don't want to spend money but if you did you can get a
fairly large external USB 2.0 hard drive and just let the storage sit
externally. that's actually how I run my father's system in Southern
California. He has a 250 GB Maxtor 1-touch so he's in with lots of
storage.

Hope this helps,
Mark