[mythtv-users] Locks up when spooling to ringbuffer...

[John Hurliman]

I debugged a system similar to this for two weeks, RMAing and swapping 
out parts before I found out it was a faulty memory chip causing lockups 
during heavy load. Just a suggestion, and if you bought your memory off 
the cheapest listed vendor on pricewatch or from the "discount" bin at 
your local computer store I'd recommend replacing it anyways. I just 
fixed my friend's computer that had the EXACT same problem (he bought 
the same memory and motherboard).

John Hurliman

JC wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Whenever I leave my 0.8 CVS / Mandrake 9.0 / Matrox G200 / P3-800 / 512mb
>RAM / Dell Dimension 4100 / 80gb box running for a day or so (i.e. spooling
>to the ringbuffer), it locks up tight as a drum (num-lock won't even
>toggle)!  After that, it's e2fsck -c -y  to repair a zillion errors, and
>then it comes up again.  I'm thinking maybe the hdparm dma speedup is the
>culprit?  If anyone has any ideas please suggest!  Oh, btw, when I boot up,
>my BIOS reports this onscreen:  UDMA=100MHZ.  Don't know if that's worth
>anything.  I tried switching from ext2 to ext3 but no difference.
>
>Here's the output from hdparm -i /dev/hda.  Can anyone read this?.
>
>/dev/hda:
>
> Model=MAXTOR 4K080H4, FwRev=A08.1500, SerialNo=674200975174
> Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs }
> RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=32256, SectSize=21298, ECCbytes=4
> BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=2000kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16
> CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=156301488
> IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
> PIO modes:  pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
> DMA modes:  mdma0 mdma1 mdma2
> UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5
> AdvancedPM=no WriteCache=disabled
> Drive conforms to: ATA/ATAPI-5 T13 1321D revision 1:  1 2 3 4 5
>
>Thanks!
>JC
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