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aristide at tiscali

Jan 9, 2006, 9:32 AM

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Harddrive

My planned MythTV-System is taking form, with following drives already
in the system (1 Hauppauge PVR-500 MCE and Kubuntu installed):

- 1 60GB Harddrive as hda, for system and data (master on first IDE)
- 1 100MB IDE internal Zip drive as hdc (master on second IDE)
- 1 dvd-rom as hdd (slave on second IDE).

I have a spare harddrive (8GB) that I plan to use for the ringbuffer file.

As I only have one Ultra-ATA 66 compatible IDE-cable, I would connect
the 8GB drive as slave on the first IDE-controller. Will the two
harddrives slow down themselves, or is it accurate to plug the drives
like this ?

I can also live without the ZIP-drive if it makes any sense.

Thank you
Yann

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beww at beww

Jan 9, 2006, 9:49 AM

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Re: Harddrive [In reply to]

Well 2 IDE drives on one channel will not slow things down more than
it does on most systems, just don't put an optical or Zip drive on
the same channel as an HDD.

I am curious though, where are you going to store recorded programs?
Looks like all your IDE channels are used up. Unfortunately in this
day and age an 8GB drive is considered by some to be a waste of an
IDE channel, but I guess those folks have a lot of $$$ :-)


Brian Wood
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On Jan 9, 2006, at 10:32 AM, Yann Lehmann wrote:

> My planned MythTV-System is taking form, with following drives already
> in the system (1 Hauppauge PVR-500 MCE and Kubuntu installed):
>
> - 1 60GB Harddrive as hda, for system and data (master on first IDE)
> - 1 100MB IDE internal Zip drive as hdc (master on second IDE)
> - 1 dvd-rom as hdd (slave on second IDE).
>
> I have a spare harddrive (8GB) that I plan to use for the
> ringbuffer file.
>
> As I only have one Ultra-ATA 66 compatible IDE-cable, I would connect
> the 8GB drive as slave on the first IDE-controller. Will the two
> harddrives slow down themselves, or is it accurate to plug the drives
> like this ?
>
> I can also live without the ZIP-drive if it makes any sense.
>


jens.baumeister at gmail

Jan 9, 2006, 10:20 AM

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Re: Harddrive [In reply to]

On 1/9/06, Yann Lehmann <aristide [at] tiscali> wrote:

> - 1 60GB Harddrive as hda, for system and data (master on first IDE)

If I understand you correctly, you're planning to use this for
recordings and the system, right?

If that's so, you may want to re-think that: 60 GB fill up rather quickly.

Jens
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aristide at tiscali

Jan 10, 2006, 12:22 AM

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Brian Wood wrote:
> Well 2 IDE drives on one channel will not slow things down more than it
> does on most systems, just don't put an optical or Zip drive on the
> same channel as an HDD.
>
> I am curious though, where are you going to store recorded programs?
> Looks like all your IDE channels are used up. Unfortunately in this day
> and age an 8GB drive is considered by some to be a waste of an IDE
> channel, but I guess those folks have a lot of $$$ :-)
>
>

Thank's for the advice.

I know that the 40GB partition for video files will not last long once
the myth system is set up. The 8GB drive is just laying around and will
be used only by the ringbuffer file.

I will buy a new big harddrive (may be an external one with firewire)
when I am sure everything works fine.

Yann

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adeffs at gmail

Jan 10, 2006, 6:15 AM

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Re: Harddrive [In reply to]

On Tuesday 10 January 2006 03:22, Yann Lehmann wrote:
> Brian Wood wrote:
> > Well 2 IDE drives on one channel will not slow things down more than it
> > does on most systems, just don't put an optical or Zip drive on the
> > same channel as an HDD.
> >
> > I am curious though, where are you going to store recorded programs?
> > Looks like all your IDE channels are used up. Unfortunately in this day
> > and age an 8GB drive is considered by some to be a waste of an IDE
> > channel, but I guess those folks have a lot of $$$ :-)
>
> Thank's for the advice.
>
> I know that the 40GB partition for video files will not last long once
> the myth system is set up. The 8GB drive is just laying around and will
> be used only by the ringbuffer file.
>
> I will buy a new big harddrive (may be an external one with firewire)
> when I am sure everything works fine.
>
> Yann

be forwarned that with LiveTV changes in SVN it will prbly make sense to have
your ringbuffer on the same drive as your recordings. The new live TV allows
for easy recording of what your watching, having them on seperate drives will
require copying the file over, which may not be a huge overhead, but why
bother when you don't have to? So when you do upgrade to a larger drive they
will all want to go on it.

--
Steve
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