Registered: Dec 2000
Location: Oxford,Oxfordshire,UK
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Rattling disc

When I got up this morning the disc on my TiVo ( now nearly 10 months old ) was rattling away a treat. I thought that it was doing an index after an update, but it's still at it 9 hours later, although all other functionality seems OK. I'm just worried that after a few days at this rate the disc will expire.
Has anyone else come across this ?

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Registered: Oct 2000
Location: W. Yorks, UK
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Try a reboot.


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Registered: Jan 2001
Location: Southampton, England
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I get the same after about 30-40days, continual disk thrashing. All quiet after a reboot, until about 30-40days !!

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Registered: Nov 2000
Location: Co. Durham, UK
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In the past when I have asked about fragmentation I have been told that because of the way TiVo works, fragmentation doesn't occur!

I don't see how it is possible to have a disk system where fragmentation does not occur (unless every program was of a standard length which they obviously aren't!)

My guess is that the rattling (which I suspect everyone has to some degree) is due to fragmentation. What I don't understand is why a reboot would stop it!

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Registered: Oct 2000
Location: W. Yorks, UK
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Fragmentation problems only happen with lots of small files. TiVo records in minimum 1MB chunks to the hard disc and uses a proprietery file system.

The chattering is likely to be some process such as suggestions, indexing or combination thereof. Could also be some rogue process thats gone wrong.


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Registered: Dec 2000
Location: Oxford,Oxfordshire,UK
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Well the reboot did fix it, whatever it was up to.
Thanks for the sugestion.

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Registered: Nov 2000
Location: Cambridge, UK
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Originally posted by Grimbo:
My guess is that the rattling (which I suspect everyone has to some degree) is due to fragmentation. What I don't understand is why a reboot would stop it!

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Registered: Oct 2000
Location: W. Yorks, UK
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Possibly but I've had quite an uptime on mine without problems. Maybe if it happens to someone with a serial cable hooked up they could have a look at the memory usage?

Do people that have this problem use Inside TiVo and/or Channel Highlights a lot? Thats about the only part of TiVo I don't use (and I don't have the problem). I know they sometimes have graphics etc...

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[This message has been edited by GarySargent (edited 09-05-2001).]

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