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

[David Rees]

On Thu, January 8, 2004 1at 0:36 am, Torbjörn Jansson wrote:
> 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.

FWIW, it's a good idea for anyone running IDE disks to get the
smartmontools suite running.  It will help to let you know the health of
your IDE drives and help determine if it's a drive problem or something
else.

-Dave