[mythtv-users] RE: RE: PVR-350 TV Out

[Torbjörn Jansson]

Before the summer when I used my 60gb disk in my linux computer I got errors
in the logs about the harddrive and I think it said something about dma.
Mainboard has via chipset.

I ignored all errors about since everything worked just fine.
But after some months I got a major filesystem corruption and fsck didn't
want to have anything to do with the disk.
So I had to reformat it. After that I installed a 120gb disk and I haven't
had any errors like with the 60gb disk.

So don't ignore the errors as I did, I lost lots of stuff.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org 
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Tony Maro
> Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 5:42 PM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] RE: RE: PVR-350 TV Out
> 
> Bill Mackintosh wrote:
>  > As the originator of this thread, I'd be willing to do the 
> write-up 
> Jarod.
>  > I've been corresponding with another user in the same boat 
> I am, and 
> we seem
>  > to have pinned the problems down to DMA errors.  At
>  > http://ivtv.writeme.ch/tiki-view_faq.php?faqId=1#q25 it 
> lists certain VIA
>  > chipsets as the probably culprits, and I do have one of the ones 
> mentioned.
>  >
> 
> That's interesting... I'm having DMA errors on my primary hard drive,
> and my system is experiencing the "waited 2 seconds" apparent frontend
> freeze.
> 
> And it's a VIA 8366 chipset.
> 
> However disabling DMA to the HD didn't stop the freezes.
> 
>