[mythtv-users] Draft revisions to HowTo section 3.3, second try

[Ben Bucksch]

Ray Olszewski wrote:

>   I don't know whether a 5200 RPM drive, or an UDMA33 drive, would 
> work or not, and I hesitate to say it would not given my lack of 
> presonal knowledge.

I have 2 Seagate 80 GB 5200 disks here happily working on a single IDE 
channel. I specifically baught 5200 disks for the reduced heat and 
hopefully better reliability.

When I copied a huge directory (18 GB), it took extremely long (1.5 
hours?), and I don't know why, yet recording while playback (on another 
machine) works relatively well, together with an Athlon 1200 (I have 
occasional framedrops at panning cameras, though, not sure why).



Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
SIS5513: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 15
SIS5513: detected chipset, but driver not compiled in!
SIS5513: chipset revision 208
SIS5513: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0xff00-0xff07, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
    ide1: BM-DMA at 0xff08-0xff0f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
hda: ST380020A, ATA DISK drive
hdb: ST380020A, ATA DISK drive
hdc: LITEON DVD-ROM LTD163D, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: 156301488 sectors (80026 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=9729/255/63
hdb: 156301488 sectors (80026 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=9729/255/63


# hdparm -I /dev/hda

/dev/hda:

ATA device, with non-removable media
        Model Number:       ST380020A
        Serial Number:      xxxxx
        Firmware Revision:  xxx
Standards:
        Supported: 6 5 4 3
        Likely used: 6
Configuration:
        Logical         max     current
        cylinders       16383   4047
        heads           16      16
        sectors/track   63      255
        --
        CHS current addressable sectors:   16511760
        LBA    user addressable sectors:  156301488
        device size with M = 1024*1024:       76319 MBytes
        device size with M = 1000*1000:       80026 MBytes (80 GB)
Capabilities:
        LBA, IORDY(can be disabled)
        bytes avail on r/w long: 4      Queue depth: 1
        Standby timer values: spec'd by Standard
        R/W multiple sector transfer: Max = 16  Current = 16
        Advanced power management level: unknown setting (0x0040)
        Recommended acoustic management value: 128, current value: 254
        DMA: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5
             Cycle time: min=120ns recommended=120ns
        PIO: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
             Cycle time: no flow control=240ns  IORDY flow control=120ns
Commands/features:
        Enabled Supported:
           *    READ BUFFER cmd
           *    WRITE BUFFER cmd
           *    Host Protected Area feature set
           *    Look-ahead
           *    Write cache
           *    Power Management feature set
                Security Mode feature set
           *    SMART feature set
           *    Device Configuration Overlay feature set
           *    Automatic Acoustic Management feature set
                SET MAX security extension
           *    Advanced Power Management feature set
           *    DOWNLOAD MICROCODE cmd
           *    SMART self-test
           *    SMART error logging
Security:
        Master password revision code = 65534
                supported
        not     enabled
        not     locked
        not     frozen
        not     expired: security count
        not     supported: enhanced erase
HW reset results:
        CBLID- above Vih
        Device num = 0 determined by the jumper
Checksum: correct