<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">> ----- Original Message ----<br>> From: David Raine <rainecc@gmail.com><br>> To: Craig Huff <huffcs@yahoo.com><br>> Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2007 12:45:35 PM<br>> Subject: Re: Audio Sync problem -- need help<br>> <br><div>> On 19/05/07, Craig Huff <huffcs@yahoo.com> wrote:<br>> ><br>> > David,<br>> ><br>> > You suggested I make sure my HD is configured to use it's maximum transfer<br>> > speed, but I don't know how to do that.<br>> ><br>> > I looked at dmesg, /var/log/messages, hdparm and smartctl, but the two<br>> > commands don't seem to provide that kind of information and
the two logs<br>> > seem like they're only reporting what is possible, not what is set.<br>> <br>> On hdparm, the "capabilites" section shows all of the acceptable DMA<br>> methods for the drive with "*" next to the one in use. Of course, both<br>> the drive and the controller need to be able to support udma6 before<br>> it will be used.<br>> <br>> David<br></div></div><br>David,<br>
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My bad %-)<br>
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I didn't read the man-page far enough or recognize that I needed to use the "-I" option. Thanks.<br>
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My drive doesn't offer udma6, but it is using the best available (udma5).<br>
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Looks like my first step will be to drag an old drive out of the
antique pile to move root, /var, /boot, and swap onto so that this one
is exclusively for mythTV recordings. (Okay, so not the oldest drive I
have, the big one with a whopping 311 MB available. Shucks, I've got
more RAM than that, now!)<br>
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I'll have to work on the WTF before I can go for the RAID mirrored & striped SATA setup. 8-)<br>
<br>Craig Huff<br></div></div><br>
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