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

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Gareth.Jones at ubs.com wrote:

>>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.
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>>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.
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>There are known problems with certain on-board SATA controllers (Silicon Image I think) and their impact on DVB cards. 
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and that's exactly what my NF7-S has  a SI 3112 from memory.  Used to 
cause disk corruption until a BIOS update.



>(eg see: http://www.nebula-electronics.com/information/DigiTVPCI.htm under the Restrictions section).
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>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.
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So early SI chips interfere with DVB.  That's twice it's bitten me, 
never again...

Thanks for the verification....



Anybody want to buy a few 100 GB of SATA storage (250GB WD, and 2 80GB 
Seagates)?  :-) Just joking.    A new MB is almost as cheap as another 
SATA controller card (unless you buy a cheap one, and they seem to be 
early SI based often anyway).
I could use them just for offline storage as they cause no problems just 
sitting there.  It's only when you access them that they upset the DVB.