[mythtv-users] Latency timings...

Derek Meek thekazan at gmail.com
Fri Apr 14 21:19:49 UTC 2006


Steven Adeff wrote:

>Couple questions....
>
>1)
>Is there a reason setpci wouldn't work? I run:
>setpci -v -s 00:0a.0 latency_timer=80
>or
>setpci -v -s 00:09.0 latency_timer=80
>for my two SATA devices  and it shows:
>00:09.0:0d 80
>but when I check with lspci -v they're both still set to zero?
>
>2)
>The wiki page doesn't give much help in the advice area as to latency
>values or how to "calculate" them for Myth use (ie DVB cards, etc),
>except to say that your harddrives should have a higher value than
>your PVR card. Anyone have any advice in this area?
>
>--
>Steve
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Be very careful with latency timers- what I had set mine to was causing
random reboots while recording.


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