On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 9:12 AM, Justin Johnson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:justin.johnson3@gmail.com">justin.johnson3@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 12:09 AM, Christopher Meredith<br>
<<a href="mailto:chmeredith@gmail.com">chmeredith@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Can anyone point me<br>
> in the right direction as far as diagnosing and perhaps fixing this problem?<br>
> Thanks!<br>
<br>
</div>I would check the SMART stats on the drive using smartctl, paying<br>
particular attention to the current_pending_sector and<br>
reallocated_sector_count. Could be that the drive is about to fail.<br><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I went over various suggestions including the XFS tools and SMART. I found that my filesystem was 50% fragmented but got frustrated trying to defragment it so I deleted all my recordings, wiped the drive, and reformatted it as ext4. I figured a brand-new filesystem ought to smooth things out.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Nope.</div><div><br></div><div>I still get copious buffer errors and studdering playback with MythTV, mplayer, VLC, whatever. The SMART readout on the drive doesn't indicate any major problems:</div>
<div><br></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><a href="http://pastebin.com/yWXartSz">http://pastebin.com/yWXartSz</a> (I'm told the <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(24, 24, 24); line-height: 18px; ">Airflow_Temperature_Cel<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial; line-height: normal; font-size: small; "> error is not cause for concern) </span></span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(24, 24, 24); line-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial; line-height: normal; font-size: small; "><br>
</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(24, 24, 24); line-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial; line-height: normal; font-size: small; ">I'm really stumped here. If this is a drive problem, how else might I confirm?</span></span></div>
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