[mythtv-users] Bad News for me...a warning to all

Boyd II, Willy wboyd at fulbright.com
Fri Apr 23 13:59:06 EDT 2004



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>I thought I'd chip in and point people to this: 
>http://www.daniel.nofftz.net/linux/Athlon-Powersaving-HOWTO.html
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>It makes a *huge* difference to the internal case temp for my 
>Athlon2800/KT600 - YMMV.
>I am using 2.6 and don't seem to have any issues.
>

Nevermind my earlier post -- I actually *read* the linked page... and it
looks like I can enable this on nforce2 without acpi.  Cool, I'll be
trying this out at home later...

- Willy


>David
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>Boyd II, Willy wrote:
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>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
>>>[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] 
>>>Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 8:54 AM
>>>To: Discussion about mythtv
>>>Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Bad News for me...a warning to all
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>>>>Anyway, thought I'd warn anyone out there...If your case
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>>>seems really
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>>>>hot - prepare for disaster.
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>>>And sometimes drives go bad without excessive heat.
>>>
>>>This is why I use tar to backup my system (everything but the .nuv
>>>files) across the network to a different Linux box (my
>>>desktop) before and after I upgrade any software.
>>>
>>>I would lose all my recorded shows with a drive crash, but I
>>>could get the backend back up and running fairly easily.
>>>
>>>I also restored my backend tar-file on a different box to
>>>create a frontend-only PC with just a few easy tweaks.
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>>The backing-up is a great idea.  I lost like 3 weeks of code a while 
>>back, and backups was all I thought about right afterwards.  
>Sadly, it 
>>remained an afterthought, and I still haven't done anything about it.
>>
>>One thing that worries me, is that lm_sensors gives 
>meaningless values 
>>on my Chaintech 7nif2.. I mean the temps are all over the 
>place... and 
>>from the limited research I've done, I couldn't find a remedy.  Has 
>>anyone else tried using the sensors on the 7nif2?  Also, someone 
>>mentioned using the smartd tools for drives... I don't know how much 
>>time this gives you in the event of a disaster, but I installed and 
>>setup the alerts anyhow.
>>
>>- Willy
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>>>- BS
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