Harddrives, MythTV and Weirdness
Albert has been playing up a fair bit, so much so that he keeps freezing for no reason and he forced me to move all the important information off him over the last week or so.
Sometimes while booting the primary HDD would not detect, or it would then make clunking noises and freeze during the first 10 minuites of use.
So the plan was to boot up, copy some stuff let it freeze then repeat the process the next day. The HDD was so temperamental that it seemed to only successully boot up once a day… go figure?
So eventually had most of what I considered the important stuff off and decided to check out the HDD and see if there was any visible issues. But when I took it out you could hear the platters squeeking, and so I shook the drive and the squeeking got worse.. Dead drive…
Or so I thought……
Being interested in seeing if the disk would still work after that squeeky noise, I returned the HDD to Albert and booted it up.. And you’ll never guess what, no clicking, detected straight up and booted.. So I waited for it to freeze, 5 mins… 10 mins… 15 mins.. still good…
So to test the drive I decided to copy off all of the other semi-important data, 1 hr later it was all off and Albert was still running fine.. Return of the Harddrive.
At this point I have a now fully functional computer, but with no real purpose or content.. So whats a guy to do with a spare machine but to build a new Linux Box and configure it as a MythTV box.. And so the hunt for my TV Tuner card began.. and is still continuing as I still havn’t found it.
But back to Myth… decided to install it even tho I don’t have my card, just wanted to see the process and configuration. Installing was a breeze, followed the instructions on the MythTV site and its all running fine.
I now have a rebuilt machine with HDD that has been playing at being dead for the last few weeks, which is now a MythTV computer without a Tuner card.. Somehow that all makes sense.