Ok, so if my system is up for a day or longer, the system fails.
It doesn't crash. I run mythbackend and frontend out of xterm
windows. After a restart it will record no problem forever, i
mean i set it up to record like 10 hours on each pvr 250 (i have 2),
with no problem. But if it sits for awhile, than at times it
fails. Like i'll check the watch recordings and the last
recording stopped at say like 41:00 into the show, and no more shows
scheduled for after that recording will record. If i try to go
into the schedule recordings program guide, it locks up. No
errors are shown that i can see. Next time it happens I'll try to
write everything down, but i've never really seen any error
messages. It's almost like it fails to access the database or
something. It happens every couple days or every day even.
It's like i have to reboot the system every day at 5:00pm to make sure
it records my shows for the nite. It really sucks. I never
had this problem before with the same system. The only change is
the new 300gig harddrive. Now i don't know if perhaps one of the
PVR-250 has failed, but it's not always the same one that fails i
think. I'll try to record at different times to see if a certain
one locks it up, but like lost records 1 minute past 10: and i was
recording law and order last nite, lost recorded fine on the first
encoder, but law and order failed at 41:33 into the show. Other
times there has been no other show recording so it was only the first
recorder recording and that's failed, so don't think its that.
Could it really be the harddrive? But why would it be able to
start but not finish? I used to have a problem before this
harddrive, where if i transcoded something, when it ended the same
thing happened. Like if i accidently hit the transcode button but
than stopped it, it would do the thing where I couldn't access the
program guide, locks up mythtv, and would stop any recordings in
progress. I know it only happens at the end, because i transcoded
a DVD to XVID and it recorded all the shows while it was running, a few
hours, but as soon as it finished, it locked up like that. And it
only locks up the program guide, i can go to watch recordings and stuff
like that. Don't know about live tv, never use it so never
checked. But now it does it almost every day, if not every
day. Can any one help?
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New Hraddrive: <br clear="all">
<h5>Maxtor DiamondMax 10 300GB 3.5" IDE Ultra ATA133 Hard Drive - OEM-- <br>
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Video Card: SiS 315<br>
Memory: PC 133, 2 128 sticks, 1 256 stick<br>
2 pvr-250's, one recently RMA'd got a new one (recently, about 6 months)<br>
KT133 mobo i believe, <br>
AMD Athlon 850<br>
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Need anything else?<br>
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Sincerely, <br>
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MacNean C. Tyrrell
<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Sincerely, <br><br>MacNean C. Tyrrell