Wednesday, April 12, 2006

The home brew dvr Lives again!


Alright the home brew dvr is working again. It turns out that I had a few issues. First off the hard drives were running in PIO mode. This of course was required massive amounts of CPU in order to do any hard drive transaction. Secondly, the western digital hard drive didn't have the master/slave jumper set. This is a valid config, but WD's apparently don't play nice with a slave if the master jumper isn't set. I think this problem actually caused some minor corruption that caused my first problem. So after setting the jumper then deleting and re-detecting the drivers everything seems to be running fine again.


So this means the dvr is working once again.

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