On 1/7/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">SBMythTV</b> <<a href="mailto:SBMythTV@cox.net">SBMythTV@cox.net</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
About once a day the entire system freezes up and there is nothing to do<br>but to reboot. Each time the system was either in the process of recording<br>a show or in the process of a commercial detection job. <br>..<br>Any help would be appreciated.
<br><br>Thanks!<br><br>-Kenan<br></blockquote></div><br>Two things come to mind:<br>1. ACPI in Fedora - try turning it off by appending the correct syntax as a kernel option on the boot prompt in Grub.conf<br>2. PATA drive- master/slave cable arrangement and two drives. Do you have both IDE drives on one cable? Do you have a SATA controller you could attach a SATA-to-PATA adapter on? I had random lock-ups with a desktop PC while performing a tar gzip (disk errors/resets in messages log) with two PATA drives on one ribbon. I off-loaded one of the two PATA drives to SATA using a Rosewill SATA adapter and the machine no longer locks up/errors.
<br><br>--Josiah<br>