<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>I doubt it. I always hate pointing out the obvious, but have you checked the hdparam -d (I think) to see if DMA is enabled on all your drives? I got bit by this not to long ago adding a new 500GB drive to a very working system and found that it didn't have that enabled and caused this exact problem.</div>
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<div>Kevin</div></div>
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<br></blockquote></div><br><br>Yes i have, it doesnt appear that i can set DMA on. My new system drive is IDE but the recording drivers are SATA.<br><br>[root@mythtv ~]# hdparm /dev/sdb<br><br>/dev/sda:<br> IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit)<br>
readonly = 0 (off)<br> readahead = 256 (on)<br> geometry = 1216/255/63, sectors = 19541088, start = 0<br> <br><br>/dev/sdb:<br> IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit)<br> readonly = 0 (off)<br> readahead = 256 (on)<br>
geometry = 60801/255/63, sectors = 976773168, start = 0<br>[root@mythtv ~]# hdparm /dev/sdc<br><br>/dev/sdc:<br> IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit)<br> readonly = 0 (off)<br> readahead = 256 (on)<br> geometry = 14589/255/63, sectors = 234375000, start = 0<br>
<br><br><br>[root@mythtv ~]# fdisk -l<br><br>Disk /dev/sda: 10.0 GB, 10005037056 bytes<br>255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1216 cylinders<br>Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes<br>Disk identifier: 0x000753e4<br><br>
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System<br>/dev/sda1 * 1 1037 8329671 83 Linux (New install of F8)<br>/dev/sda2 1038 1215 1429785 82 Linux swap / Solaris (Current Swap)<br>
<br>Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes<br>255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders<br>Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes<br>Disk identifier: 0x0005606d<br><br> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System<br>
/dev/sdb1 1 1702 13671283+ 83 Linux (Old F8 install)<br>/dev/sdb3 * 1703 60801 474712717+ 83 Linux (Recordings)<br><br>Disk /dev/sdc: 120.0 GB, 120000000000 bytes<br>255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14589 cylinders<br>
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes<br>Disk identifier: 0x479eb2b7<br><br> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System<br>/dev/sdc1 * 1 14258 114527353+ 83 Linux (Recordings)<br>
/dev/sdc2 14259 14589 2658757+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris (OLD SWAP)<br><br><br>When trying to put DMA on acording to Jarods guide i get the following:<br>[root@mythtv ~]# hdparm -d1 /dev/sda<br><br>/dev/sda:<br>
setting using_dma to 1 (on)<br> HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device<br>[root@mythtv ~]# hdparm -d1 /dev/sdb<br><br>/dev/sdb:<br> setting using_dma to 1 (on)<br> HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device<br>
[root@mythtv ~]# hdparm -d1 /dev/sdc<br><br>/dev/sdc:<br> setting using_dma to 1 (on)<br> HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device<br><br>Suggestions?<br>Mitchell<br>