Tom's MythTV Saga

I am installing a MythTV front-end / back-end combination. I figured that it would be an ordeal, so I decided to blog the process. It is currently working, but in a duct-tape-and-band-aids sort of way.

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Zero length recordings... grr

I'm having a big issue with zero length recordings lately...

Multiple recordings per day will come up 0 length... it happens immediately.. as soon as the recording starts, it stays at 0 length, but the card stays in "recording" state until the end of the show. It really sucks.

I looked in the dmesg output and I see lots of stuff like this:

__ide_do_rw_disk - bad command: dev hda: flags = REQ_RW REQ_NOMERGE REQ_STARTED
REQ_BLOCK_PC
sector 658632, nr/cnr 0/0
bio 00000000, biotail 00000000, buffer 00000000, data 00000000, len 0
cdb: 1b 00 00 00 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00


That could have something to do with it.

So, right now, I'm downloading a kernel patch from SUSE (whatever the latest one will be) and hoping that it solves the problem. Also, I think I might run fsck or whatever the equivalent is for the filesystem I have (can't remember which one it is right now... xfs?)

Anyway, I'll update when there's a fix.

posted on Wednesday, May 04, 2005 5:14 PM by Tom

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