[mythtv-users] PVR-250 stability

[Aran Cox]

On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 04:25:43PM -0500, Jeff_Mitchell at accessbusinessgroup.com wrote:
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> I recently (read: a month or so ago) purchased a pair of PVR-250s, and a
> 120GB hard drive to upgrade my Myth box, and I've been having some weird
> behavior that I'm trying to track down.  Every once in a while, I get a
> recording that's a 0-length file.  Once I get one of these, I'm unable to
> get anything out of either card (either through Myth, or via catting to a
> file), and I have to restart my Myth box to get things recording again.
> Another thing that I ran into was my OS hard disk (a lowly 18GB) getting
> filled will log messages from the ivtv driver.  I fixed this by just
> cronning a job to kill the offending log files hourly.  (Yes, I know it's a
> nasty hack, but it was done around Thanksgiving, and I seem to remember
> being rushed.)
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> I'm thinking this is caused by the driver getting borked somehow, and I'm
> wondering if other people are having the same issue, or if I somehow
> managed to screw up the driver installation.  Basically, I just need
> someone to tell me what I'm getting isn't common, so I can get the courage
> to hit the ivtv site, and try reinstalling the driver.
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This is a much discussed issue on ivtv-devel, and you might try upgrading your
ivtv driver.  However, since you don't mention anything about what version 
of ivtv, mythtv, kernel, or anything else, it's a little hard to say.

Aran

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