[TriLUG] mythtv, QAM 256, & Time Warner Cable...

[OlsonE at aosa.army.mil]

If you don't mind me asking, what enclosure, and hdd are you using?  

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From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
Behalf Of Keith Johnson
Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 12:25 PM
To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] mythtv, QAM 256, & Time Warner Cable...

At 10:09 AM 10/17/2006, you wrote:
>On 10/16/06, Keith Johnson <kjohnson at northcarolina.edu> wrote:
>>As an aside -- I run my 8300HD with an external sata drive that 
>>doubled my store time. Just be sure to use a sata2 cable.
>
>Interesting.  Did you just hook it up and go or was there any setup?
>Did you have programs on the internal drive before hooking up the new 
>one and were they fine after the process?
>
>Cheers,
>Tanner

I just hooked it up, the system prompted me to format Y/N, and off I
went. Yes, I had programs on the original drive and they were
unaffected, at least in my case. In my research looking for pitfalls on
expanding the drive capacity, I ran into quite a few posts claiming all
kinds of problems when attaching drives -- so, YMMV. I haven't tried to
verify this yet but it's my understanding that if I were to unplug the
drive and then re-attach it the system would again prompt to format the
drive -- apparently there is no way around this little quirk.
Just to be safe I burned all my recorded wood turning shows to DVD
before I attached the drive.

kj

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