[mythtv-users] hard disk crashing and system freezes

[Jarod C. Wilson]

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On Wednesday 18 February 2004 10:11, cvertesi at indiana.edu wrote:
> Thanks, but no... I'm ripping to my separate storage drive.  The root
> partition has about 3 gigs left.  Storage drive has about 65 gigs left.  I
> even tried moving the swap partition from one drive to the other... no
> difference there. Thanks for your help though. Any more ideas?

Some folks have reported similar problems when ripping to an XFS partition, so 
if the new cable doesn't do the trick, you may have to use something other 
than XFS. I'd certainly be suspicious of the cable though, given then DVD-ROM 
failures when the two are on the same bus.


> Quoting Steven Cruysberghs <steven.cruysberghs at pi.be>:
> > 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!

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