[mythtv-users] System hard locks several times per day, usuallywhen paused

[James Armstrong]

Torbjörn Jansson wrote:

>mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org <> wrote:
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>>I managed to catch some log messages this last time it froze up. The
>>only pertinant messages from mythbackend are:
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>>error reading from: /dev/video0
>>read: Input/output error
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>>While my system log reports:
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>>Sep 9 00:07:21 [kernel] hde: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x21
>>Sep 9 00:07:31 [kernel] hde: DMA timeout error
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>>Does that help at all? Any suggestions?
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>That doesn't look good.
>It looks like the messages i got just before major file system corruption.
>This has happend twice.
>I have a via kt266a mainboard.
>Last time i got fs corruption i got crc errors from the ide controller, it
>turned out to be a bad ide cable, this is probably what casued the first fs
>corruption too.
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I had these problems early on and decided to upgrade the via 
motherboard. I now have a non=via Athlon 2000+ and it has been working 
great.

- James