[mythtv-users] OT: SATA errors

[Harry Devine]

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