[mythtv-users] (WAS) KnoppMyth (NOW) Sata problems

[Gareth.Jones at ubs.com]

>not the SATA.  I have found that I can provoke the glitches even in 
>Knoppmyth, by writing the ringbuffer to a temp directory on one of the 
>SATA drives instead of the IDE.

>I now officially dislike SATA drives.  This was my first machine using 
>them, and had all sorts of initial problems.  Now this.  Time to get a 
>nice big reliable IDE drive I think.


There are known problems with certain on-board SATA controllers (Silicon Image I think) and their impact on DVB cards. 

(eg see: http://www.nebula-electronics.com/information/DigiTVPCI.htm under the Restrictions section).

This caused me lots of problems when first setting up a dedicated box. >From memory my mobo had 2 SATA controllers and switching to the non-SI controller fixed all the glitches.

Gareth

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