>Jeff> I've got 7 drives just as individual drives directly attached
>Jeff> via SATA ports. Each drive is mounted individually, and I use
>Jeff> the "Storage Groups" feature in MythTV, which spreads the
>Jeff> recordings across all the drives pretty evenly. ;-)
>
>Interesting, no RAID. Did you do this for ease of expansion, so you
>just add a new disk and Myth simply starts using it? And I assume you
>don't care if you lose 150+ programs at a go if a disk dies, right?
I ran a Raid5 of 6 500GB drives for a couple of years. But then I had a
drive that was starting to fail, so I had bought a replacement, and had
powered down my system to replace the bad drive. Well, when I did that, a
2nd drive went DOA with the 'click-of-death'. No amount of recovery
attempts brought things back to life, so there I was with 2.5TB of Raid5'd
recordings gone....
So I re-built using Individual drives and Storage Groups. Now if I were to
lose a drive or two, I only lose SOME of my recordings, not everything.
>Of course I'm running on a Tivo Premiere with a single disk so I'm
>toast too if it dies. I need to crack my case one day and make a
>backup...
I used to 'backup' my DishPlayer 7200's back in the day... but it's much
easier with MythTV. ;-)
>I'm also using a Cable Card and a Cisco interface box because Tivo
>doesn't support the latest two way cable card standard. And that
>Cisco box keeps crapping out randomly and requires a reboot. Better
So this is basically an 'external tuner' for the Tivo? Sounds like it could
be used to feed a tuner for MythTV too... Yes/No/Maybe? Is it SD or HD?
(Sounds like SD)
I had also tried tuning Clear QAM on my FiOS cable, but didn't get anything
except locals and the SD "Government" cable channels, which are of no
interest to me. And I get the locals loud & clear via a roof-mounted UHF
antenna.
>channel switching speed/accuracy than using an IR blaster though for
>sure!
Yeah, IR Blasting is somewhat of a science... When I was using IR blasting,
I managed to get things tuned up well enough that I almost never had a bad
channel change. But maybe it's because I used an oscillescope to 'tune' my
scripts to be 'pefect'...
>
>John
Jeff