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<DIV><SPAN class=732580422-13042004><FONT face=Arial size=2>I don't see any
reason why the disks on a MythTV frontend or backend box couldn't be allowed to
spin down (using some kind of power saving feature of the drive). I think
you can set them to spin down after a certain amount of idle time with
hdparm.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=732580422-13042004><FONT face=Arial size=2>-
Jared</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
mythtv-users-bounces@mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces@mythtv.org]<B>On
Behalf Of </B>Bathelt, Manfred<BR><B>Sent:</B> Monday, April 12, 2004 4:27
PM<BR><B>To:</B> mythtv-users@mythtv.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> [mythtv-users] How
is personal setup stored?<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=233270920-12042004><FONT face=Arial
size=2>Hello,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=233270920-12042004><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=233270920-12042004><FONT face=Arial size=2>I use MythTV for
some month now and my family is _very_ pleased about it.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=233270920-12042004><FONT face=Arial size=2>After vaporizing
my PC´s power supply last weekend and now getting some new hardware, I think
about installing MythTV + Linux on a CDROM or USB memory, to allow spindown of
my disks while idling (and save energy/heat/noise).</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=233270920-12042004><FONT face=Arial size=2>My question
is:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=233270920-12042004><FONT face=Arial size=2>where is the
personal setup of MythTV stored? I mean which movie to record, whether to
record it once or every day,...</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=233270920-12042004>Is it stored
within mySQL or using some config-files?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=233270920-12042004><FONT face=Arial size=2>I do not care
about the EPG stuff stored within mySQL, as this could be rebuilt in ramdisk
after each reboot, but user settings should persist reboots.
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<DIV><SPAN class=233270920-12042004><FONT face=Arial size=2>If mySQL is used
for all of this data, I can probably forget this vision for now, as I do not
want to try to run mySQL on CDROM/USB flash memory, and probably will not be
able to force mysql not to touch the hard disks over longer periods of
time...</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=233270920-12042004><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=233270920-12042004><FONT face=Arial size=2>Has anybody ever
tried to install MythTV+Linux on a read only system which spinned down hard
discs?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=233270920-12042004><FONT face=Arial
size=2>Manfred</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<BR><FONT face=Courier size=-1>Dipl. Inf. Manfred Bathelt, mobile
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Frauenweiherstr. 14, D-91058 Erlangen, Germany</FONT><BR><FONT face=Courier
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