[mythtv-users] hard disk crashing and system freezes
Steven Cruysberghs
steven.cruysberghs at pi.be
Wed Feb 18 12:44:12 EST 2004
Op di 17-02-2004, om 22:25 schreef Campbell Vertesi:
> I've got MythTV set up on my Fedora Core 1 box, as per Jarod's
> instructions (yay for Jarod! Double-yay for apt-get!). I had it
> running largely fine for a few days, but now I'm starting to have
> problems... It has started to crash when I get through about 90% of a
> DVD rip. Not just crashes, freezes completely; hard reset required.
>
Maybe you where ripping to your root partition and now your system disk
is full? Try running df
> First thing I checked was temperature, but that's fine.
> Then I checked the mythbackend.log ... It doesn't seem to give much
> useful information beyond startup. Nothing there.
> I had a look at /var/log/messages though, and there's the interesting
> stuff. I get all sorts of hard drive and DVD rom failures before SOME
> of the crashes. Not all, but some. I scanned my storage drive that had
> the errors, and found it clean. My DVD drive works fine, and always did
> under windows. Since both drives were on the same bus (hdc/hdd), I
> tried moving the storage drive to primary slave. Now I still get the
> crashes, but without the drive errors!
>
> This is driving me nuts! System specs are below, has anyone heard of
> any issues with FC1 and the ECS K7S5A IDE controller? Maybe XFS? I'm
> even considering installing Gentoo and trying again!
>
>
> Fedora Core 1 (apt-getted to current packages)
> KDE 3.2 WM
> AMD Athlon 1.3Ghz underclocked to 1Ghz
> 192MB PC133 RAM
> ECS K7S5A Motherboard
> Onboard C-Media sound
> GeForce4 MX 64mb Video card
> ATI TV Wonder VE (brooktree) TV card
> WD 10gb hard drive (hda, ext3, UDMA5)
> WD 120gb hard drive (hdb, XFS, UDMA5)
> Sony DVD rom (UDMA5 I think)
>
> I don't bother with TV out, I just have a really big monitor as a TV
> screen :) .
>
> Thanks!!
>
> Cam
>
>
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