[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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