Should I have two drives? one for media, the other for the OS, mp3s and photos? From my experience with profesional video/audio software like ProTools, Final Cut Pro, and Avid I need to use seperate drives. Is it the same for myth? How well does myth work with multiple drives? I'd like to make the system not fill up my primary OS drive with video.

What about SATA? This thread says its a pain to install myth on a SATA drive, but what about installing on a PATA system drive and using a SATA drive as my media drive? I've been looking for some 300-320GB drives, and they're only SATA.

--Threadjack
and, if anyone would care to help me look over my system for incompatibilities, I'd be grateful.
Athlon64 3000+ (939, Venice)
nForce4 (vanilla) Foxconn NF4K8MC-EKRS (any other micro atx suggestions?)
1Gig pc3200, cl2.5
Gygabyte Geforce 6600 (what about ATI X700? 128MB vs. 256?)
Sound Blaster Audigy (I'd like to use the coax digital out, does it work?)
I plan to use the firewire out on my DC6200. Does that work?

And what about the built in stuff on the motherboard like GbE and maybe the audio if I choose to use it?

An install of KnoppMyth partitions the drive into seperate partitions. Your media will never fill /. Since R5, SATA has been supported. I've never had issues with SATA. My master backend is SATA. Myth could care less about the location of the media as long as it can acccess it (which is handled via the OS). I really frown on thread jacking...

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cesman

When the source is open, the possibilities are endless!

I appreciate that yeah, the /. partition won't fill up, but would this sort of configuration assist in recording programs and commercial detection, etc.

The reason I ask this is I recently had problems recording TV and found I had some IO bound errors in one of my logs.

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Girkers

I have a 30gb hard drive that has the os loaded and working, but i recently got a 300 gb sata drive. Could anyone explain or point to a place that would explain how i could accomplish this. Im a linux newbee . Thanks for the help!!

~Eric~

Assuming you are using KnoppMyth.

Format the SATA drive with the filesystem of choice. Unmount /myth. Edit fstab to reflect new location of /myth. Mount /myth.

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cesman

When the source is open, the possibilities are endless!

KnoppMyth has had this scheme for sometime now. I don't see how why it would be an issue. I really don't see how having /myth on another drive would help w/ what you stated. If you're getting IO errors, then I'd suspect something else... I maybe wrong...

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cesman

When the source is open, the possibilities are endless!

Okay then, if you don't think anything is wrong I'll take your word for it. I believe my recording problems may be more related to the TV signal.

I am going to reinstall again very shortly and so I will see if this makes any difference.

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Girkers

Is it that easy? Every time I try to do that, mythbackend will crash shortly after I restart it. Maybe I'm just doing something retarded?

I want to do the same as the OP, have a seperate media drive.

Have you taken a look at the backend log to see why it is crashing?

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cesman

When the source is open, the possibilities are endless!