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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=822321211-20082007>Hi
All</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=822321211-20082007>I've been pointed
here by the chaps on the MythDora forum, hoping to gain some advice on getting a
box working with 12 tuners (6 x Nova-T 500 dual tuner PCI cards). I am
able to get the first four cards working, giving 8 tuners, but the last two
throw errors when trying to load the driver.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=822321211-20082007>For the first four
cards I get:</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=822321211-20082007></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=822321211-20082007><FONT
face="Courier New">kernel: dvb-usb: found a 'Hauppauge Nova-T 500 Dual DVB-T' in
cold state, will try to load a firmware<BR>kernel: dvb-usb: downloading firmware
from file 'dvb-usb-dib0700-01.fw'<BR>kernel: dvb-usb: found a 'Hauppauge Nova-T
500 Dual DVB-T' in warm state.<BR>kernel: dvb-usb: will pass the complete MPEG2
transport stream to the software demuxer.<BR>kernel: dvb-usb: will pass the
complete MPEG2 transport stream to the software demuxer.<BR>kernel: dvb-usb:
Hauppauge Nova-T 500 Dual DVB-T successfully initialized and
connected.</FONT><BR></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=822321211-20082007>They work fine, and
I am able to make 8 simultaneous recordings. However, for the last
two I get:</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=822321211-20082007></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=822321211-20082007><FONT
face="Courier New">kernel: dvb-usb: found a 'Hauppauge Nova-T 500 Dual DVB-T' in
cold state, will try to load a firmware<BR>kernel: dvb-usb: downloading firmware
from file 'dvb-usb-dib0700-01.fw'<BR>kernel: dvb-usb: found a 'Hauppauge Nova-T
500 Dual DVB-T' in warm state.<BR>kernel: dvb-usb: will pass the complete MPEG2
transport stream to the software demuxer.<BR>kernel: dvb-usb: Hauppauge Nova-T
500 Dual DVB-T error while loading driver (-23)</FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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face="Courier New"></FONT> </DIV></SPAN></FONT>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=822321211-20082007>The obvious
difference, other than the 'error while loading driver' is that for the first
four cards the 'will pass..' line appears twice, whereas for the second two it
only appears once. All cards are identical, and setup is a vanilla
MythDora configuration, so settings for all cards should be the same. In
/dev/dvb I see entries for 8 adaptors, which I assume is one per
tuner.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=822321211-20082007></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=822321211-20082007>Now, 8 seems to be a
convenient number to stop working on, so I'm wondering if this is a limitation
in the driver? Or (hopefully) there is a tweak that needs to be done to
allow this many tuners to be used. Surely I'm not the only one mad enough
to run that many tuners in a single box?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=822321211-20082007>FYI, hardware is an
HP DL720 with 8x Xeon CPUs and 16GB RAM.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=822321211-20082007>Thanks,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=822321211-20082007>Chris</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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