[mythtv-users] Lost all recordings today -- no output from air2pc

[Roger Heflin]

Alen Edwards wrote:
> All my recordings today are "File not found".  The logs show they 
> recorded normally but there were no files recorded.  Upon investigation, 
> I find the tuners are not locking at all.  After reboot, and the typical 
> 5 minute wait, they locked up normally.
> 
> I would think this might be related to the 5 minute problem but that 
> seems to be a common problem that people live with.  I don't like it and 
> these same tuners locked up quickly on my prototype, but I don't know 
> what to do about that.
> 
> So, my question is, is this a problem that others have seen?  What 
> causes it?  How can I be sure that it won't happen again?  Is there 
> something I can do to make sure I won't lose shows?
> 
> If this is a random thing that others have seen, what should I buy to 
> replace them?  This is an OTA only system so I don't need QAM.
> 
> Mythbuntu 8.02
> Air2PC 0.2 (first generation)
> AMD 5400+
> 
> 

I had a hd5500 that was doing that a lot, rebooting fixed it for a while, from 
some basic testing, everything looked right in the myth logs-but there were no 
files, and on testing with more basic utilities everything looked right, except 
that something reading from the device never got any data back at all, but also 
never got a failure, so myth did not notice anything was wrong.

There were messages in dmesg about the card having serious issues (hours 
before), I finally traced it back to PCI bus issues when certain sata ports 
built-into the MB were heavily used, without them being used things are fine, if 
the built-in sata ports on mine were heavily used this screwed up the PCI bus in 
some way (probably did not allow anyone else any bandwidth), and caused issues 
with the hd5500-hard failures and pvr150's-data loss, drop outs, when those 
ports were being used, and also if I used things the "right" way would crash the 
  machine.

This was on a older (apparently badly designed) VIA motherboard, it may or may 
not have anything to do with your issues, and if it is a similar issue, I am not 
sure what can be done about it, I moved all of my sata to a PCI card and 
multiple pci cards seem to play nice (on my MB), but the built-in VIA sata stuff 
does not play nice with PCI cards (on my MB).

                             Roger