01.17.08
Posted in KnoppMyth, MythTV at 7:56 pm by Nate Smith
There it is. You don’t get anything special for installing MythTV the hard way or compiling it from scratch. (maybe the satisfaction of doing it). So take it easy on yourself and use knoppmyth This is the best way to get going with MythTV and really start using it. Add to this the KnoppMythWiki and you have a winning combination for installing and configuration.
If they start giving awards for slogging out all those hours to install it the hard way let me know.
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09.30.07
Posted in KnoppMyth, MythTV, rant at 11:05 pm by Nate Smith
The Samsung Spinwrite Hard Drive I have been using in my MythTV (KnoppMyth) back-end machine died tonight. It made the awful head crash sound . I turned it off for a while and restarted it later. Although the machine still began to boot the sound was still there so I powered-down. The Drive has had a good run. Three or more years on a MythBackend has to be pretty challenging for a consumer hard drive. I bought Samsung when I did because you could get a lot of HD for the money and they were pretty quiet and fast. I think the next drive will be a Seagate. They seem to be about the best drive you can buy. I wish somebody made an uber-reliable hard drive for the consumer market. Maybe one that had some kind of internal RAID using two platters. Or how about enough compact flash in the drive to write a CRC check for each sector or block? Maybe something with extra (excessive?) cooling. I think the HD manufacturers have about a 3 year lifespan built into the drives. It would be nice if they just admitted it so you could plan on buying a new hard drive every three years or so. I’d like to get a warning from the BIOS when I start my machine- “your hard drive will expire in 45 days”. Plenty of time to order a new one.
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