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Silent drive corruption (LVM — the silent killer)

UPDATE: it appears to be software raid, rather than LVM, that is causing the corruption. More tomorrow after more testing.
There’s a fair amount of disk space on my mythtv backend, set up like this:
Onboard SATA 2×250GB -> md0 (raid 1) -> LVM [1]
PCI SATA 2×300GB -> md1 (raid 1) -> LVM [2]
The LVM […]

New ivtv error from mythtv: ivtv0: All encoder MPEG stream buffers are full. Dropping data

I’ve upgraded ivtv to 0.4.2 in the hopes of ridding myself of regular dropouts, but no luck. It’s also on a new motherboard (in case it was some motherboard/chipset bug that was causing it), but I’m still having problems.
I first wrote about the ivtv problem a few months ago, and while it’s pretty […]

Attempting to fix ivtv errors

I’m using 2 pvr 250 cards in my mythtv setup, and every once in a while I get a weird corruption thing in the video and audio where it stutters for a second, then the audio is all oddly jerky for the rest of the recording, it’s like 200ms or so is missing from every […]

Nice silent fans for my epia mII-10000

The fan that came with my epia (from idotpc) was really loud, so I decided that I needed to replace it. After doing a bunch of searching around, it seemed that some of the best were from silenx.com. I got two of the 40mm ones, and accidentally got a 60mm one as well (50mm […]

Component video out for MythTV (in 16×9 glory)

For a while I had s-video working fine with my new TV (JVC HD-52Z575), but I was using the stretch feature on the TV to make the 800×600 into a 16×9 resolution, and the stretched out people were starting to get to me, so I decided I was going to figure out how to get […]