[mythtv-users] OT: SATA errors

[Brian Wood]

On Thursday 09 July 2009 20:19:34 Harry Devine wrote:

> The MB is an Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe with an nVidia nForce4 SLI x16
> chipset (from the MB manual).  I have an nVidia GeForce 9400GT video
> card in the PCI-e slot and a pcHDTV5500 tuner card in one of the regular
> PCI slots.  Both are working fine.  The SATA ports are on the MB itself
> as I mentioned earler.

Can you look at your bootlog? Make sure it looks like yout SATA controllers 
are being recognized and initialized properly?

I'm not familiar with that precise chipset, though I have had good luck with 
some of its progenitors. 

It would be interesting to know if things work OK with a PATA drive, perhaps 
you could run the OS on that one and be able to give a good workout/test to a 
SATA drive connected as a non-system drive.

Asus generally makes decent boards. Make sure you have the latest BIOS 
installed, sorry if that's obvious. I also assume (obviously) that you are 
not overclocking and all timings are at default settings.

Also check for interrupt conflicts.

-- 
Brian Wood
beww at beww.org