[mythtv-commits] Ticket #3427: Mythbackend crash if haddrive is powered down (hdparm -S 244)

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#3427: Mythbackend crash if haddrive is powered down (hdparm -S 244)
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 Reporter:  anonymous  |       Owner:  ijr       
     Type:  defect     |      Status:  new       
 Priority:  minor      |   Milestone:  unknown   
Component:  mythtv     |     Version:  0.20-fixes
 Severity:  medium     |  
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 I have made some looking around on the web and in this ticket system
 trying to find this issue but i haven't found anything.

 I use "hdparm -S 244" to spin down my 400Gb hard drive when not in use.
 This results in a 2h waiting period before spindown. The disk is used for
 music storage, live-tv, video etc but the mysql database and the operating
 system is on another device.

 If I tell my backend system, which is a dedicated server, to record shows
 once every week there are no problems whatsoever. The backend manages to
 spin-up the drive and record the show. However, if I happen to activate
 LiveTV as the first call to the mythbackend it will crash. I can avoid
 crashing the backend by going to "watch recordings" which will spin-up the
 drive and then show me a clip of selected recording in the list. I have
 tried going in to mythmusic and mythvideo as well as mythgallery before
 running Live-TV which all works fine.

 I have experimented with the server disk and set it to spin down after 5
 seconds and it seems like going to live-tv when the disk is powered down
 is a great way to crash the backend.

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