[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
>
>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-----
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>>>Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 8:54 AM
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>>>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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>seems really
>>>
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>>>>hot - prepare for disaster.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>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.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>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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