[mythtv-users] OT: SATA errors
Harry Devine
lifter89 at comcast.net
Fri Jul 10 02:10:58 UTC 2009
Brian Wood wrote:
> On Thursday 09 July 2009 19:56:45 Harry Devine wrote:
>
>> John Drescher wrote:
>>
>>>> But how do I tell if the SATA ports on the MB are shot or not? I had
>>>> moved the drives around to the other 2 and the BIOS could see them.
>>>> Wouldn't that mean that the SATA ports are OK?
>>>>
>>> Do you have cards in the motherboard slots?
>>>
>>> John
>>>
>
>
>> No. I have 4 SATA ports and they are on the motherboard itself.
>>
>
> I think John meant do you have any sort of cards in any mobo slots? If so,
> remove them if you can, and put them back one by one if that changes things.
>
> If you have a spare HDD I'd try a fresh installation onto it. Sounds like the
> system on your present disk is corrupt, but if this is because of a previous
> problem or a current one it's hard to say for sure.
>
>
Sorry. Wasn't thinking clearly when I read that. :-) I have my
video card in 1 PCI-X slot (an nVidia GeForce 9400GT) and my pcHDTV-550
tuner card in a regular PCI slot. Nothing else. I may have a spare
drive laying around, but I doubt it's SATA. Only IDE. What will
installing on a non-SATA drive prove? Just wondering, not trying to be
dense or difficult.
I suppose I could backup the database, copy it off of the system, and
reinstall fresh. Then restore the DB before starting up Myth, right?
Thanks,
Harry
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