[mythtv-users] Mythbuntu stalling with HDD light solid

[Andre]

On 14 Apr 2010, at 11:05, <lists at whitehouse.org.nz> <lists at whitehouse.org.nz> wrote:
> 
> If nobody can come up with anything better, I'll try moving to a different
> HDD this weekend -- it's just a bit of a pain with a 1TB drive (and only a
> 500GB spare).

There's a lot of faqs around about those WD drives, especially in raid arrays but they pause for long periods during sector remaps and often the linux sata driver will decide the drive is bad in this time. There's some problems with power management too, I'd go looking for firmware updates and workarounds before swapping it out.

I had some similar trouble with six Samsung F1's since the kernel update in Ubuntu 9.10, some sata controller drivers are a long way from perfect too, some combinations of drive firmware and controller driver get very smelly.

Andre