[mythtv-users] OT: Firewire HDD

Joseph A. Caputo jcaputo1 at comcast.net
Wed Feb 18 16:08:36 EST 2004


> > I'm trying to build my MythTV setup into an old CD player, and the
> > biggest problems I have are 1) mounting the PVR-250 in there, and
> > 2) getting a hard drive in there.
> >
> >
> >
> > For 1, I bought a flexible PCI riser card, that I hope will work. 
> > Since it's a cable, though, I'm worried about signal degradation. 
> > If it doesn't work, I guess I'll just scrap the CD player project
> > and mount it in a real case.
> >
> >
> >
> > For #2, I can't fit a 3.5" hard drive in there, so I found a 20gb
> > laptop drive that I'm going to use.  I have a 160gig drive that I'd
> > like to use for the storage, and I bought a firewire enclosure for
> > it.  The problem is that when I plug it in, the system won't boot.
> >
> >
> >
> > My questions are:
> >
> >
> >
> > a) I know there are some EPIA users out there.has anyone used an
> > external drive like this?
> >
> > b) Is it going to be a PITA getting the drive to mount in Linux?
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Gabe
> >
> >
> >
> > EPIA M10k mobo
> >
> > Fedora Core 1
> >
> > 256MB Mem
> >
> > Hauppauge PVR250
> >
> >
On Wednesday 18 February 2004 15:27, Paul Woodward wrote:
> Just a word of warning - I heard somewhere about Linux being very bad
> with firewire HDs and simultanious reads/writes. Hopefully one of the
> gurus on this list can shed some light...
>
> Paul
>

I have an external USB2.0/FireWire enclosure that I use with a FireWire 
card on my Myth box.  I can't speak as to the performance -- I use it 
only for my ripped CD collection (MythMusic), and it performs fine for 
that.  I don't know if it would have adequate performance for Myth's 
video recording.  I suppose it *should* if the Linux sbp2 mass storage 
support is good enough, which I've heard it isn't...

I have found that figuring out how to auto-mount it (with or without 
hotplug) is a real PITA.  I basically gave up for now; every time I 
reboot my Myth box I have to manually re-mount the drive.  One of these 
days I'll sit down and figure it out.  Obviously I can't boot from it, 
either.

-JAC



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