[mythtv-users] PVR500 hardware problems (Rich Wilson)

[Michael Lynch]

On 10/12/06, Justin Luitjens <luitjens at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
>
> I believe it is an IRQ conflict also.  After spending many hours moving
> cards around, disabling unused things in the bios I finnaly got it to
> boot.  Tonight i'm going to check if it consistently boots.  The PVR 500
> did not like the promise controller built into my motherboard (ASUS
> A7v133a) and as long as my hard drives were connected through the
> promise controller the machine would not boot.  To fix it I had to move
> from my promise controller to the primary IDE controller and disable the
> promise controller in my BIOS.
>
> Justin
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By chance was it a Promise FastTrack PDC20378?  If so, there is a
patch available that I used to allow me to use this controller.  You
can find more info at
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=478926